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Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is about the women and girls whose lives were cut short after encountering a monster whose full reign of terror might not even be fully known. He hunted in his own backyard, the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, and there could be victims out there that have yet to be discovered.
This is the story of the Mysteries of Highway 20. It's around 10 a.m. when Noel Turner realizes his 35-year-old wife Kay hasn't returned from her run. Now, she had left around 8 a.m. and planned to be gone for about an hour, but to make it home for breakfast. Well, that's now come and gone, times two, and Noel is getting a little worried.
So he hops in his truck to see if he can go find her, probably just hoping that she maybe sprained an ankle or got lost or something. Mm-hmm. Because though she's an avid runner, she is kind of in unfamiliar terrain right now. Because this is Sunday, Christmas Eve, actually, of 1978.
And Noel and Kay are vacationing in this remote area of Oregon called Camp Sherman, which is right off of this big main road known as Highway 20. And they took this little trip as a holiday getaway with some friends, exchanging gifts, sitting by the fire, like singing carols. It was supposed to be this magical time, like doing all the Christmassy things.
But that wouldn't stop Kay from getting her workout in. Again, avid runner. And what should have been Kay's time to recharge and clear her head is quickly becoming... Now her family and friends nightmare because there is no sign of Kay as her husband is driving around everywhere. And by 1.30, Noel is thoroughly panicked, enough that now he needs to call police.
So Noel and others are eager to get searching right away, but they're told by police to wait, which is just at this point burning precious daylight hours in their minds. So eventually sheriff deputies arrive and they, along with the locals and the Turner's friends, finally do start searching for Kaye. Even when it gets dark, they search through the night.
But there isn't a single sign of her, not even on Christmas Day or the day after, despite the searches getting bigger and bigger. Like these are extensive land searches.
And I assume they've talked to all the friends and stuff and we're sure she actually even made it. on the run. Like, nothing happened to her wherever it is they're all staying?
Yeah. According to Noelle Crombie, who wrote extensively about this for The Oregonian, Kay even asked one of their friends to go jogging with her, but they declined. And they do eventually find a couple of witnesses, this pair of highway workers who, like, they talked to separately. They were, like, said they saw her, again, separately, like, running solo in the morning that she vanished. So,
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