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TIL that the 1971 Doors song "Riders on the Storm" partially references an American hitchhiking killer, Billy "Cockeyed" Cook in its lyrics. In 1950-51, Cook murdered six people, including a family of five, on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California.

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