Complex sentence: Bittaker and Norris abducted their final victim, 16-year-old Shirley Lynette Ledford, on October 31,1979 as she stood outside a gas station hitchhiking home from a Halloween party in the Sunland-Tujunga suburb of Los Angeles.
Split into simpler sentences: Bittaker and Norris abducted their final victim, 16-year-old Shirley Lynette Ledford, on October 31,1979. Ledford was abducted as she stood outside a gas station; hitchhiking home from a Halloween party in the Sunland-Tujunga suburb of Los Angeles.