The Beauty Queen Killer's surprising take on trauma and forgiveness
the true crime that's worth your time
[CW for sexual assault, harm to children]
The crime
In the spring of 1984, Christopher Wilder – known as both "the Beauty Queen Killer" and "the Snapshot Killer" thanks to his m.o., rolling up to teen girls and young women with a camera and offering to jump-start modeling careers for them – capped a multistate kidnap/murder spree by taking 16-year-old Tina Maria Risico as a sexual hostage in Torrance, CA.
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