We will now look at a case that illustrates how difficult it can be to rule an unsolved crime in or out of this series. Kathleen Johns, twenty-three years of age and seven months pregnant, had about four hundred miles to cover as she left her home in San Bernardino, California, headed for Petaluma. It was Sunday, March 22, 1970, and Johns was taking her ten-month-old daughter to visit her grandmother (Kathleen’s mother), who was sick. Because of the length of the trip and the age of her baby, she planned to make most of the drive at night. She left in the late afternoon. Around midnight on Highway 132, Johns noticed a car behind her, blinking its lights and honking its horn at her. The driver pulled up alongside her car and yelled that one of her back tires was loose. They pulled over and a clean-shaven, neat young man around thirty offered to tighten things up for her. She thanked him and stayed in the car while he ostensibly went back to fix it.
