Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (September 27, 1940 – December 13, 2019) and Roy Lewis Norris (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, committed the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in Southern California over a five-month period in 1979. Norris was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 7, 1980, with possibility of parole after serving thirty years. Norris accepted a plea bargain whereby he agreed to testify against Bittakers and was sentenced. Norris died of natural causes at California Medical Facility in February 2020.