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:45 How did you get connected to the Hillside Stranglers case?

4:15 The lingering questions

5:25 Meeting Darcy O'Brien, who wrote THE book on the case

7:51 How do you run against an Attorney General in a tough-on-crime environment?

9:00 The Feinstein campaign

9:38 The ad

13:08 What broke the Hillside Strangler case?

15:33 Paul Mitchell's Dad, Jim Mitchell, encounters a Strangler

18:14 A victim-centered approach

19:37 Prosecutor Elizabeth Baron

20:54 Michelle Hawkins, forensic investigator

21:49 "I wanted to do this because I needed to help her"

23:13 interviewing Juror #1

25:11 Daryl Gates' personal files

29:48 Did the Strangler case sink Van De Kamp's candidacy?

33:53 The Los Angeles Times story that wasn't

36:26 Now also an NBC documentary: Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise

37:52 Live event in Sacramento, October 1, 2022 at The Sofia

39:41 #WWCA

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