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Patrick Kerward's Suicide

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Patrick Kearney is a notorious serial killer who thrived in the 1960s and 70s throughout California. He was convicted of 21 murders, confessed to 7 more, and is believed by some to have had up to 43 victims. Most of Kearney's murders occurred in his car where he abruptly shot homosexual hitchhikers or men from gay bars in the head. Kearney, a necrophile, would proceed to dismember, mutilate, and rape the bodies of these innocent men

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