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Why do so many creeps in the US end up in a place like Oregon? I remember seeing something about how a good amount of serial killers live there in hiding?
Maybe just the location of being in between Seattle and California.
We say here in the valley, “Ted Buddy was a Husky,” so at least he isn’t ours
They finally tore down his favorite seattle college bar, Dantes, about 5 years ago. Its a car lot now, but at least it only lasted another 40 years or so after he killed all those women.
Klamath County is huge, sparsely populated and filled with off grid homesteads on massive but very cheap parcels of land especially in places like Tableland. There is truly so little out there that if you don't want to be bothered, it's the place to be. There's also basically no cops. It's the modern wild west.
Very sparse population. But why is the population so sparse? Here's a good answer: https://youtu.be/cOoFsehit6U
(Geography video about the history of this area.)
Probabbly because it's one of the more habbitable parts of the country that also is not too population dense. Major cities are less frequent in some places but they tend to be in the desert or something.