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The In our previous episode, I introduced you to Anna Marie Lavka.

She was a 20-year-old woman who had been living with her boyfriend and sister at the Tudor Arms Apartments in downtown Portland. On June 24, 1979, Anna's sister Rose Ann returned home from the McDonald's, where both sisters worked, and she discovered her sister had been murdered. Susan was lying across the bed, the power cord from her alarm clock

radio wrapped around her neck. Investigators followed every lead, but the case very quickly went

cold. What the Portland police didn't know back in 79 was that the man who, 40 years later,

would come up as a match via Parabon Lab's forensic genetic genealogy had spent years

terrorizing the state of Texas.

Jerry McFadden is truly one of the worst, most dangerous criminals I have ever researched.

While reading about his actions and behaviors, I was reminded of both Jesse Pratt, the man from our path of

Pratt episodes, who ran over and murdered Carrie Love, and of Cal Brown, who murdered

Holly Washa, as told in our episode, Space 266. Some of the similarities are their shared

disheveled looks, evil capabilities, and flippant willingness to inflict pain.

Jerry McFadden had no regard for human life, especially women.

He didn't fear being captured or facing consequences.

He was a wild card, which is always the scariest kind of criminal.

Jerry McFadden was not someone you would want to run into.

He would sometimes have his black hair slicked back, making him look like a greaser. Other times, he had wild,

unkempt hair and looked like he had been living in the woods. Based on his actions, he didn't

appear to have empathy or care for anyone but himself. His first arrest came in the late 1960s for burglary and destruction of property.

In 1972, his name appeared in the paper in a tiny article on the second page that read

Jerry McFadden, 24 of Breckenridge, rape. That first victim, whom he held at knife point and

sexually assaulted, was just 14 years old. Before he could

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