Wesley Shermantine, half of the duo dubbed the "Speed Freak Killers," claims that he and his partner in crime Loren Herzog killed 72 people.
* Killer claims 72 victims after remains of five unearthed
* Partner commits suicide before burial sites divulged
* Sheriff accused of ineptitude, FBI leads renewed probe
By Ronnie Cohen
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler's mother dropped her off at Franklin High School in Stockton, California, the morning of Oct. 7, 1985. "I love you," the 16-year-old said as she left the car. Paula Wheeler never saw her daughter again.
She still recalls in chilling detail the scene 16 years later, when the man convicted of killing her daughter and three others turned to her and her husband in court and highlighted the painful fact that their child's body had never been found.
"My parents will know where I'm at when I'm gone, but you'll never know where Chevy is," she remembers Wesley Shermantine telling them. The condemned killer long refused to offer information about his victims' fate or whereabouts.
But after more than a decade of silence on death row, Shermantine, 46, has begun to speak out about the string of murders - by his count, six dozen - he committed with his childhood friend and partner in crime, Loren Herzog.
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