![]() ![]() ![]() Norris then took a coat hanger and wrapped it around Shirley’s neck, twisting it as tight as they could with the locking pliers until she was dead. Soon after the tape ends, Bittaker pulled over and joined Norris in the rear of the van. After he had done so, as Shirley emitted pitiful, strained screams of agony as she wailed and wept, Norris simply asked her, "What are you sniveling about?" (As Shirley's arms were bound behind her back, she would not have even, in a natural human reaction, been able to attempt to move her arms in response to the acute pain at this point, without aggravating the injury.) Towards the end, the sounds are of Norris beating her over and over, more than 25 times total, with a hammer upon the same elbow. (Bittaker subsequently earned the nickname “Pliers” from his desire to twist and tear girls' nipples with his pliers - he had used them in the torment of at least one previous victim.) Then, towards the middle the sounds are of Bittaker beating her about the chest with his fists and tormenting the screaming and pleading girl with vise grip pliers on her genitals, breasts and nipples. At the beginning of the tape, the sounds one hears are of Bittaker slapping her. ![]() Instead of driving to the San Gabriel Mountains, where they usually tortured and murdered their victims, Bittaker immediately turned on the tape recorder and started slapping and beating Shirley. Bittaker then traded places with Norris, who drove as Bittaker remained in the rear of the van with Shirley. Norris then wrestled her to the floor, stripped the clothes off the terrified girl, and bound her hands behind her back. Within 5 minutes of Shirley Lynette entering the van (which Bittaker and Norris referred to as "Murder Mac"), Bittaker had driven to a quiet side street, where he slammed on the brakes of the van before throwing Shirley from the passenger seat into the rear of the van. Shirley Lynette Ledford was unknown to Norris, but a familiar face to Bittaker, who knew the girl well as he frequented the restaurant where she worked. Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris drove into Sun Valley, where they encountered Shirley Lynette Ledford as she hitchhiked home from the job she held as a waitress. On Halloween night, 1979, at approximately 10:30 p.m. ![]()
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