Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

10/12/2026

***Petite Charlene Tilton stars in her first (television) movie at the age of 20*** She rose to fame with her role in Dallas the year before and executives jumped on the opportunity to take advantage of her popularity. It’s a riff on the ‘B’ flick “Hitch Hike to Hell” from two years prior, which was loosely based on the crimes of Edmund Kemper, The Co-ed Killer, whose victims in 1972-1973 were six female students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, which is an hour's drive south of San Francisco. Of course, he was only one of such psychos in California, or anywhere in America & Canada, who preyed on female hitchhikers, an activity that had been in vogue since the hippie era a decade earlier. The movie effectively shows that there’s more than just one type of antagon