First published at 01:25 UTC on April 11th, 2019.
In an interview with Jim Morrison, Morrison mentions the spree killer Billy Cook, who was the inspiration for the 1953 film The Hitch-Hiker, and may have been the inspiration for Riders On The Storm.
In this video we merge the song and film togethe…
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In an interview with Jim Morrison, Morrison mentions the spree killer Billy Cook, who was the inspiration for the 1953 film The Hitch-Hiker, and may have been the inspiration for Riders On The Storm.
In this video we merge the song and film together, they seem almost like they were meant to be.
A man named Billy Cook murdered a family of five, including three children, and then killed a traveling salesman. He then kidnapped two hunters and took them across the border into Mexico, intending to kill them, too, but before he could he was captured by Mexican police and subsequently extradited to the US, where he was tried for the murders, convicted, and died in the gas chamber at San Quentin on Dec. 12, 1952.
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