Lawrence Sigmond Bittaker, 79, died Friday of natural causes, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a news release.
, were known as the “Tool Box Killers.” Together, they were responsible for the 1979 murders of Lucinda Lynn Schaefer, 16; Andrea Joy Hall, 18; Jacqueline Doris Gilliam, 15; Jacqueline Leah Lamp, 13; and Shirley Lynette Ledford, 16. Prosecutors said the two lured young hitchhikers into a van and then attacked them with a sledgehammer, ice pick, vice grips and other weapons.
Marin County coroner’s officials will conduct an autopsy to determine Bittaker’s specific cause of death.
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