April 1976: His family buys the house at 1001 Ford Avenue in Ferguson. He and his parents live in Carr Square Village, near downtown. "Oh, my God," Kroenig thought when Travis was arrested. It would be three months later before police would say publicly in a Post-Dispatch story that a serial killer or killers may have been preying on local prostitutes. Kroenig said she was working as an intern for KDNL (Channel 30) news last July when Travis "asked if my station had done a story on prostitutes getting killed." "He said he had friends who knew about bodies getting dumped." She said Travis specifically referred to a "serial killer." Kroenig said she pitched the story to her boss at the TV station, but it "went nowhere" after they could find no information about serial killings of prostitutes.
But it was a conversation between Travis and Wucher's girlfriend, Julie Kroenig, that continues to haunt Wucher and Kroenig. The bodies of at least four of Travis' suspected victims were found in the East St. Louis was a good place to dump things because there's not many police around," Wucher said. Once, Wucher said, he told Travis about a friend whose car was stolen and later found burning in East St.
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