Black River Killer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by crzo152 

Cover art for Black River Killer lyrics by Blitzen Trapper

I'm pretty sure the song is related to the green river killer.

"It was just a little while past the sunset strip" and "So I took the first train up to Oregon" place the murders in the pacific northwest, where the green river killer murdered.

"When the warden with his key came to set me free" he was also imprisoned and released before being later sentenced

"And I killed the first man that I came upon" he killed often, and for no real reason

"They found the girls body in an open pit" often dumped bodies into pits off of road sides

My Interpretation