Serial killer Robert F. Carr confessed in 1976 to kidnapping, raping and murdering Todd Payton, Mark Wilson, Tammy Ruth Huntley and Rhonda Holloway.
Steve Fishman was 19 years old when he hitched a ride with a serial killer. The aspiring reporter needed a ride to Connecticut, where he was interning at the Norwich Bulletin, his hometown newspaper. He was staying with a pal in Boston. It was the fall of 1975, and, in those days, hitchhiking was common, Fishman explained.
This guy, who went by ‘Red,’ seemed very nice, very conversational,' said Fishman. 'He was from Norwich and offered to show me a shortcut. He started taking me on smaller roads, which saved me time.' Fishman, who yearned to 'move up the ranks' at his paper, started asking Red questions. He was on the hunt for a fresh story. Red confessed that he had just gotten out of prison.
Meanwhile, Fishman was certain that he had secured a major story for his paper. He didn’t think twice about giving Red’s supervisor a call. 'He couldn’t believe I was calling to do a story about this guy,' said Fishman. 'He said, ‘Do you know what he was in for?’ I realized at that point that I hadn’t asked him. I was a pretty inexperienced reporter at that time. The supervisor then said, ‘You don’t want to know, and you’re not doing a story about him.
wanted to know what should be done with a serial killer,' he said. 'Are these people worthy of our . . . tax dollars, worthy of our efforts to rehabilitate them? What do I think should happen to somebody who has victimized kids, killed kids? As a father today, I had to answer that myself.'
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