For nearly two decades, children disappeared across Los Angeles County—some never to be found. Behind the construction of Southern California’s expanding freeway system was a man hiding a horrifying secret: Mack Ray Edwards, a heavy equipment operator who used his access to construction sites to bury evidence of his crimes. His case remains one of California’s darkest and most disturbing serial murder investigations.

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