Lydia Preston, meanwhile, recovered from the bullet wound, though with some permanent damage. She reported what had happened, but she didn’t have enough info to put the police on Thor’s trail. There was every probability, of course, that she’d never run into the man again, especially if he was from out of town like he’d told her. Then in July, she was in a bar in Hollywood, when in walked Thor Christiansen. She ducked out of view, got to a payphone, and called the cops.
They arrested him based on her testimony, and thanks to some prints he’d left on a discarded tissue connected with one of the murders, they managed to get him to confess to everything. He got a life sentence … and was quickly stabbed to death by another inmate, which was something experts had predicted would happen.
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