Murder, Mystery & Makeup - The 'Hitchhiker Slayer' - Who was Thor Christiansen?

Episode Date: June 18, 2024

Hi friends, happy Tuesday! Thor Nis Christiansen was many things, but most notably, he was a necrophiliac-hitchhiker-targeting-serial-killer. Ever since he was a troubled teen, his friends noticed how "off" he was...little did they know, at just 19 years old, Thor would take his violence to the next level. Also, let me know who you want me to talk about next time. Hope you have a great rest of your week, make good choices and I'll be seeing you very soon xo Bailey Sarian _________ :  :    F O L L O W    M E     :  : Discord:  https://discord.com/invite/BaileySarian Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/3e3jL9v Instagram: http://bit.ly/2nbO4PR Facebook: http://bit.ly/2mdZtK6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2yT4BLV Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2mVpXnY Youtube: http://bit.ly/1HGw3Og Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3cC0V9d RECOMMEND A STORY HERE : [e-mail]  Business Related Emails : [e-mail] Wanna Send Me Something? Bailey Sarian 4400 W Riverside Dr Ste 110-300, Burbank, CA 91505 __________ New episodes of Murder: True Crime Stories release every Tuesday. Just search for Murder: True Crime Stories on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://www.RocketMoney.com/MAKEUP. Refresh your closet with Rhone and use MAKEUP to save 20% at https://www.rhone.com/MAKEUP

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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Hi, friends. How are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian, and today is Monday, which means it's Murder, Mystery, and Makeup Monday. If you're new here, hi. My name is Bailey Sarian, and on Mondays, I sit down and I talk about a true crime story. It's been heavy on my noggin, and I do my makeup at the same time. Oh well I'm not doing my makeup right now because you're listening to the podcast. Hi podcast. So today I have a story about a guy named Thor. Yes his name is Thor. You heard that right. And it's it's one that I have been sitting on for a while because I just like, it was just, I didn't know what to do with it. It's just like, it's

such a weird story and there's so many crossovers, but let me just stop rambling per usual and get into today's story. You ready? Okay, here I go. So his name's Thor. I can't get over that, Thor. Thor Nis Christensen, okay? His name's Thor. I'm gonna say that at least 18 times. His name is Thor Bailey. Great.

But he was born in Denmark in 1957, and then he immigrated to America in the 1950s. So Thor's family settled down in Slovene, California. If you don't know, Slovene is known to celebrate Danish culture and has festivals where they have like Viking reenactments, wooden clock shops, and the whole place is like decorated. Just so cute, okay? The village, quote unquote village,

is complete with an old school windmill that screams Denmark at least for California you know the Christensen family opened a Danish restaurant and to the public it seemed that they were living the American dream and as people got closer to Thor they realized that Thor's dad N Nys, he wasn't that great. He was an alcoholic and also he was physically abusive, especially towards Thor. So when Thor was younger, he had lots of friends, but as he got older, he became more estranged and scared off a lot of his friends. One of his friends recalled him stepping on the heads of small animals to kill them. Yeah, so you know, that's not great, okay? And when he got to middle school, he would catch bigger animals like birds and frogs

and like tape firecrackers to them and then watch them explode. So he's a sick little fuck, all right? I could, yeah, you could say that he is thor began drinking a lot around the age of 12 and then tried to get his friends to drink with him he attended santa yanez high school in his grades they were good but then they just started to plummet the more that he started doing drugs and drinking so you know things are just going downhill and then before class like every day I guess he would take shots like in the parking area or just somewhere anywhere that they wouldn't get caught so some of his friends and him were just drinking a lot so So his parents' restaurant, it was going really well, and they

bought Thor an Audi. Yeah, when he learned how to drive. So he got like a really nice car. My first car was like an 86 Toyota Corolla. Thank you so much. But he got an Audi. Good for him, but he didn't give a shit. He went to parties a lot and hung out in groups, but as he got older, he began to like distance himself from his childhood friends. Then Thor, he dropped out of high school before he got a diploma

and then got a job working at a gas station. Once he did this, it was said that he became more moody and his friends, they gave him the nickname Cloudy and Overcast Christensen. I don't know how that's a nickname, but it was. When I think of a nickname, I think of something short and sweet, but who am I, you know?

Cloudy and Overcast Christensen. Really just rolls off the tongue. When Thor was 19, he was a waiter at his family's restaurant and that is when he began his murder spree. Jacqueline Rook was 21 years old and was a student at the University of California Santa Barbara and lived in Isle Vista California and Isle Vista is a town you think of when you think of like a beach town but also there was a bunch of students there as well because the college was close by. Jacqueline decided that she was going to go into town to go

shopping on November 20th, 1976. As a student, she didn't have a car or anything, and the last she was seen was hitchhiking, trying to get a ride, And then nobody saw her again. So two weeks later, December 6, 1976, Mary Saris, who was a 19-year-old waitress in Isle Vista, disappeared. She was last seen at an appointment at 4 30 p.m. at the hospital in a busy part of town and like Jacqueline Mary was known to hitchhike to get from one place to another and it was like well known for hitchhikers to get rides outside of the hospital and like okay so this was the 70s and like people hitchhiked you know and like now when we think about it we're like oh my god these people are crazy like how could you hitchhike but back then like that's what they did yeah I know hard to believe but they did that wild times so I guess everyone just

assumed that someone picked up Mary and then like didn't let her go now at this time the town was already kind of feeling a little scared they were like on edge after Jacqueline went missing. But now that Mary went missing, because no one had seen her since, fear was really starting to take root. So Mary went missing. Jacqueline went missing. Nobody knows where they're at. Did you know that many products for pregnant women do not have their own clinical trials for safety or efficacy. That's because pregnant women are often excluded from clinical studies. Ritual is aiming to set a new standard with their essential prenatal multivitamin. It's the number one best-selling prenatal and the only leading prenatal backed by its own human clinical trial. Essential prenatal is proven to deliver key

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slash clinical. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. So then Patricia Laney. Patricia was also a student at UC Santa Barbara and was an aspiring actress. She was also involved in like bettering her community. She liked to volunteer and give it back and just be involved. So Patty had been rehearsing with her friends for a Peter Pan show that they wanted to put on because the community was like so frightened by

this hitchhiker napper. So they were like, let's put on a show and like bring everyone together and do something else besides be afraid, you know? Oh my god, poor Patricia, right? Well, and Mary and Jacqueline, but you know, she's trying to give back and make everyone feel calm. On January 18th, 1977, Patty was handing out flyers to raise awareness about these girls being abducted on the corner where Mary had last been seen outside of the hospital. So she's handing out these flyers, right? Come see Peter Pan. So she was waiting to be picked up by her friend to go to the Peter Pan rehearsals. But when the friend arrived, Patty was gone. Nowhere to be seen. Oh my god. I know. So in the search for Patty, an officer found her body on the side of one of the

back roads in the canyon in Isle Vista. Now to the police officers, the fact that she was on a back road made it clear that the killer was a local, but the back road was not only part of the Isle Vista community, it also led to Sloving, California. According to police, Patty was shot in the side of the head and her killer had sex with her post-mortem. Oh god, yeah. So Patty, sadly she was, she was nude and her clothes and backpack were found less than a mile away along with what was identified as restaurant paper towels. So on the paper towels, the police were able to recover fingerprints. Now the fingerprints didn't have a match because they belonged to someone that had never been arrested before. The investigators narrowed their search to what they knew for normal serial killers.

The M.O. we all have come to know. A white male, around 30, with a mental disorder, and most likely a loner. Yeah, that really narrows it down. Two months after Jacqueline had disappeared, police found her body in the same canyon that Patty had been found in. She had been shot twice in the head and once she was dead some of her clothes had been removed and also she was raped after death. Police noticed at this point that their killer was lazy. I know. I was like, okay, what does that mean? Here's what they meant. This killer was just pushing the girls out of the car and then driving away

rather than taking them deeper into the woods or the canyon to try and conceal their bodies. So they're like, this guy's lazy. So that's all police know at this point. He's lazy, white male in his 30s, a loner, and drink. So while they were there, Thor was in his car and his foot was resting on the brake pedal. So his brake lights were on. An officer pulled over and took all of the alcohol and weed and was just going to give them a ticket until he felt the need to ask Thor to open his trunk. I guess this police officer just got like a funky feeling and was like, let me see inside your trunk, you know? So I guess Thor refused, but after his

friend told him to, he was like, just open the trunk, dude. Like, what's the deal? Just open the trunk. So Thor, he's like, okay. He opens the trunk and the officer found a.22 pistol. So the officer sees this, takes his gun away, gives the kids a ticket, and then lets them go. Hmm. I mean, close call for Thor. Did you know that many products for pregnant women do not have their own clinical trials for safety or efficacy? That's because pregnant women are often excluded from clinical studies. Ritual is aiming to set a new standard with their Essential Prenatal Multivitamin. It's the number one best-selling prenatal and the only leading prenatal backed by its own human clinical trial. Essential prenatal is proven to deliver key nutrients,

including folate, biotin, and vitamin D during pregnancy. Moms taking essential prenatal had a lower overall cortisol level during pregnancy than those taking a leading prenatal. Plus, it's designed to be gentle on the stomach. Ritual doesn't just have your back. They have the receipts. Get 25% off at ritual.com slash clinical.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Did you know that many products for pregnant women do not have their own clinical trials for safety or efficacy. That's because pregnant women are often excluded from clinical studies. Ritual is aiming to set a new standard with their essential prenatal multivitamin. It's the number one best-selling prenatal and the only leading prenatal backed by its own human clinical trial. Essential prenatal is proven to deliver key nutrients, including folate, biotin, and vitamin D during pregnancy. Moms taking essential prenatal had a lower overall cortisol level during pregnancy than those taking a leading prenatal.

Plus, it's designed to be gentle on the stomach. Ritual doesn't just have your back. They have the receipts. Get 25% off at ritual.com slash clinical. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. So after this, Thor ended up moving to Oregon for a couple of months. It was said he was probably terrified that the cops were, like, onto him, but they had no idea it was him at the time. When he moved back, he reportedly finished his high school diploma or got his GED. Then Thor met a girl named Carrie Solis in 1978 when he picked her up hitchhiking. So he must have really liked Carrie. They must have got

to talking or something because the two of them would become boyfriend and girlfriend. And Carrie would later say that the two of them would have sex like a ton, multiple times a day. Like he had this hunger that couldn't be fed. Do you know what I'm saying? Because I know some of you out there are like, okay, well I do that. But like it was different it was worth noting so their boyfriend girlfriend they're having sex a lot great so they ended up moving into an apartment together and I mean I don't know I don't know what made Carrie different but Thor did not murder her she's very lucky right but shit I don't know Thor Thor and Carrie, they're living in Southern California again. So Thor started to go out to Los Angeles pretty often.

And when he returned, he would clean his car like inside and out, being all paranoid, like just deep cleaning. He would talk to his friends about how he was picking up hookers in Los Angeles and that it was the best sex of his life. He's like you gotta do it. But I mean who really knows if he was picking up hookers or if he was killing people still. I would bet he was still killing people but But anyways, let me not get ahead of myself. So two years after Patty had died, April 18th, 1979, Thor picked up a woman named Lydia and he picked her up on Sunset Boulevard for $45. She was a sex worker worker she tried to tell him different hotels to go to but he just ignored her and like kept driving but talked to her saying that he was a construction worker from Santa

Barbara so he's driving driving and Patty's like you should make a left here and he's not you know what I'm saying like it's getting a little spooky Thor then turned into Hollywood Hills and kind of parked the car and then shot her in the head. When he did so, she ends up grabbing the wheel of the car and spins the car out of control. She's still alive. I mean, like he shot her in the head and she is still alive. Okay. She grabs that wheel and the car's like spinning. She was able to get out of the car and then she was able to make it to a nearby house who was able to get her help. Call 9-1-1. Call the police and she survived. She of course had scars and became deaf in one ear but her brain was unscathed and again she lived like incredible so they were able to file a police report as to what happened but again this was what

the late 70s like you know it was hard to catch people back then I guess but like they couldn't find the guy he took off but then in july so a few months go by and it's july of 1979 lydia went back to work and one night she was hanging out at a bar called bottom line and it was on hollywood boulevard so she's hanging out there it's a work night. La-di-da, you know. And then in comes Thor. Oh, yes. He comes walking in. Lydia's like, oh, fuck, that's a guy. So she sees him.

I don't know if he sees her, but she sees him. And she immediately goes to the back of the bar. She goes to a pay phone and calls police. And she's like, listen, you need to listen to me. Like, this person who shot me in the head is at the bar so the police come out and she was able to play it cool so Thor didn't know like what was going on and she didn't want him to leave right so she's playing it cool like no big deal whatever like I don't know you uh police show up and Thor was arrested so at the time Thor was 21 years old yeah he's young which

is like holy shit if he wouldn't have gotten caught who knows how many women he would have killed oh my god but he was only 21 um he was arrested and it was determined that Thor had been killing girls in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara for a long time. They found 22-year-old Laura Benjamin, who was also a sex worker in Hollywood, and she was found in a nearby reservoir who had been dead for like a month and they had no links, but they were able to link Thor to Laura. Laura had been shot and was also sexually assaulted in March or April of 1979. And I mean, it's unclear how many victims Thor had, but it's believed that Thor had been killing girls in Oregon while he lived there, but it's impossible that Thor had been killing girls in Oregon while he lived there but

it's impossible to confirm this they have no idea so they arrest him he's 21 he's young he's dumb he's a shithead we all hate him like fuck that guy they have no idea where the other victims are but they linked him to the murders Thor was arrested and he ended up pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, but then he ended up changing his plea to just guilty after it could not be proven that he was insane. It was determined in court that he was a necrophiliac. I mean, obviously. God, that's so gross. I'm not judging, but I'm fucking judging because that is disgusting. But it was determined in court that he was. And then in 1980, he was sentenced to life in prison. Oh, so sad. What a bummer. Poor guy. Not Thor. fuck that guy okay so he was in prison he was he was at like Folsom prison

and I guess it was like the prison Johnny Cash made famous if you're familiar doesn't matter but he's at this prison and he didn't last there very long I think it was that same year ended up stabbing Thor and murdered him. Yep. And that is the short life of Thor Christensen. But thank God, huh? Because if this guy would have kept living, who knows what else he could have done if he never got caught. Holy fuck. Like this guy's gross well fuck that guy huh but other than that that is the story of thor christiansen and um i don't even know how to i hate sometimes i don't know how to end these stories because i'm like okay um thanks bye it's so awkward sometimes but yeah yeah okay so uh yeah okay all right thanks for hanging out with me today and let me know who you want me to talk about next time but other than that be safe

out there don't hitchhike okay i know we don't really do it now but like still just be careful all right have a good day make good choices and i'll be talking to you next week goodbye