March 26: Young serial killer takes first victim

Plus: Beauty Queen Killer victim, Hart family murders, and more.

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1984: Body of Beauty Queen Killer’s latest victim found

The idea of the creepy male photographer is a common cliche, but sometimes it's more than accurate.

When the young, gorgeous Terry Diane Walden—a 23-year-old wife, mother, and nursing student at Texas's Lamar University—was approached by a "photographer" who asked her to model for him, she turned him down, sensing correctly that he was not to be trusted.