"Lost Women of Highway 20" Spotlights Horror Along Oregon Road

The episode explores the dark history of Oregon’s Highway 20, where state worker John Arthur Ackroyd committed a series of violent crimes against women and girls over several decades. It describes how Ackroyd utilized his official position and intimate knowledge of the remote landscape to target victims with near-impunity between the late 1970s and early 1990s. The narrative highlights the systemic failures and social biases that allowed his predation to continue, specifically detailing the cases of survivors and victims like Marlene Gabrielsen and Rachanda Pickle. Through the lens of an investigative journalism project and a subsequent docuseries, the sources examine how these crimes were eventually brought to light. Ultimately, the text serves as a somber memorial to the victims while critiquing the jurisdictional gaps that delayed justice for so many years.

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