Robert Maury: The Killer That Solved His Own Murders

Shirley Landruth was working the hotline for Shasta County’s Secret Witness program when she started receiving strange calls from a man in 1985. The line allowed people to provide details on unsolved crimes, sometimes for reward money. With the system being anonymous, the calls were never recorded, however, this particular caller was strange. The man gave precise directions to the location of a body, and over the next few years, that same man with the same distinctive voice called over 20 times. He reported various minor offenses, but the most peculiar part was that he gave the locations to 2 more bodies, something that raised the eyebrows of Shirley and the police.