One investigator from California, Erwin Carlstedt, was the one who pushed the theory that the killer was not strictly active in Florida alone, but traveled across the country to avoid detection.
She was killed in her home, in fact, so she was not lured anywhere like the other victims. Barbara Stephens was one victim who was not killed using the flat tire method, which made it difficult to see the connection to the rest of the victims. Three other victims are most likely involved in this same case, but some investigators believe that there could be as many as 30 victims if the killer was mobile. This would allow him to get the women alone and then kill them. The killer would deflate the victims’ tires in a parking lot and act as though he just happened upon them and decided to offer his help. Both of them were killed in July and were almost immediately expected to have been killed by the same person given the unique circumstances behind their deaths and because they were found in the same canal in very similar conditions. The first two, victims were Ronnie Gorlin, a 27-year-old woman, and Elyse Napp, a 21-year-old woman. In Dade County, Florida from around February to July of 1975, at least five women were killed in what is theorized to be a string of connected murders. This week we will look into Florida’s cases, the Flat-Tire Murders from the 1970’s. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another week of Unsolved, a list of the most interesting unsolved serial killing cases in each state.