Ivan Hill called police after a murder and said, “I did it again.”
1. Black True Crime Podcast covers Ivan Jerome Hill and the case investigators called the “60 Freeway Killer.”
2. Hosts Kayla and Kristen guide the story, and they matter because they connect the case timeline, the victims, and the trial evidence.
3. The episode asks how Ivan Hill went from a violent Los Angeles home to robbery, prison, and eight linked murders.
4. Ivan Hill was born in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 30, 1961, and the hosts place him back in California after earlier coverage of other Southside Slayer cases.
5. His parents, William and Bessie Hill, had a volatile relationship, and William shot Bessie in the face with a .22 caliber rifle on Christmas Day 1968.
6. Bessie survived, the couple later split, and she raised five children while working multiple jobs.
7. The hosts say Ivan became the main caregiver for his siblings before he was 10 and had been savagely beaten by his father.
8. Despite that home life, he stayed in school, attended Pomona High School, and became captain of the football team.
9. During his junior year in 1978, he became addicted to cocaine and stopped caring about school and sports.
10. In January 1979, 17-year-old Ivan Hill and 18-year-old Vincent Myers robbed a liquor store in Glendora, where Thomas Lavelle was killed and Keith Hunt was seriously injured.
11. Vincent Myers received life without parole, while Hill, charged as a minor, cooperated with prosecutors and was sent to juvenile detention.
12. Hill later earned his high school diploma in custody and began taking classes at a local college before parole.
13. After release, he drifted through the San Gabriel Valley, worked jobs like forklift driver and day laborer, and kept stealing.
14. A theft conviction in the late 1980s sent him back to prison, and he remained there until February 1993.
15. In March 2003, investigators matched his DNA to an unidentified serial killer they were already calling the 60 Freeway Killer.
16. The DNA profile connected him to eight murder scenes along California State Route 60, with victims killed between 1986 to 1987 and again in late 1993 to early 1994.
17. The hosts identify Lorna Reed, Rhonda Jackson, Betty Sue Harris, Roxanne Brooks-Bates, Helen Hill, Donna Goldsmith, Cheryl Sayers, and Deborah Denise Brown as the victims tied to the case.
18. The episode notes that some victims were sex workers, several were strangled with rope, cloth, duct tape, or tied clothing, and Rhonda Jackson had Hill's DNA under her fingernails.
19. The tone is case-driven and investigative, with Kayla and Kristen mixing timeline reporting, reactions to evidence, and direct quotations from police calls.
20. Listeners who want California serial-killer history and courtroom evidence will likely stay engaged, while listeners wanting a light recap or no graphic details may skip it.
