![]() ![]() The macabre murderers made audio recordings of themselves raping and torturing the 16-year-old before they strangled her to death with a coat hanger. The last young woman Norris and Bittaker killed was Shirley Ledford. They hit Lamp - the only victim that was not sexually assaulted - with a sledgehammer, and Bittaker strangled her while Norris beat her with a hammer until she died. ![]() According to court documents, after an entire night of enduring the depravities inflicted by the killers, the terrorized young girls were killed the next morning when Bittaker shoved an ice pick into Gilliam's ear and into her brain and strangled her. Gilliam's skull had part of an ice pick lodged inside, and Lamp's skull showed evidence of hammer strikes. The skulls of 15-year-old Jacqueline Gilliam and 13-year-old Jacqueline Lamp were found with Norris's help. Fortunately, the savage killers were caught before they could inflict more horrors on any other girls they found walking down the road, as their previous victims' bodies told terrible tales. They also found seven types of acid in his apartment which Norris told investigators Bittaker was going to try out on their next victim, court records show. When the men were caught, police found a small sledgehammer in Bittaker's murder van, or the van the duo used to abduct and torture the young women. Norris and Bittaker are called the toolbox killers because they used standard tools to torture and kill the teens, including things like vice grips, pliers, hammers, sledgehammers, and an ice pick. In 1979 they saw their sinister plans through, ending the young lives of Lucinda Schaefer, 16, Andrea Hall, 18, Jacqueline Gilliam, 15, and her friend, Jacqueline Lamp, 13, and Shirley Ledford, 16, per court records. ![]() ![]() While serving their time - Bittaker for assault with a deadly weapon and Norris for rape - the two hashed out ideas for kidnapping and sexually assaulting women when they were both out of prison. ![]()
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