In the winter of 1981, Harold David 'Hal' Pratt, a 60-year-old male, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Jirsa Pratt, 55, were camping in the Arizona desert, west of Oracle Junction in Pinal County. Their bodies were discovered by hunters on December 10, 1981. Both had been shot and killed in an act of senseless violence that would later be connected to a string of brutal murders across the western United States.
The investigation into the deaths of the Pratts eventually led law enfor
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