The Well

S01E02 The Confession

Linden, a small farming town in California’s San Joaquin Valley, is where Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog spent their childhood, roaming the fields and orchards to hunt game. Soon after high school, though, the two turned their attention to people. The wide-open rural landscape gave them cover for a killing spree—and made finding their victims a mystery that lasted for decades. Detectives focus on two case files: unidentified female remains possibly tied to the pair. One victim, known as the Lady in the Fridge, was discovered in 1995 stuffed inside a refrigerator floating in the county delta. The other woman’s remains were recovered in 2012 at the bottom of an old well, along with other victims.