This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland and Josh McCullough tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.

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She started the walk but never arrived.

Her case remains unsolved, but a man of particular interest was living in the same complex

at the same time.

To those he provided drugs to, he was known as the

Candyman. Police in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California, however, knew him as

Jesse Clarence Pratt.

And if he had remained in prison for the crime he committed in 1980, Virginia might still be with

us, as would another murder victim.

Today in part one of what was originally two but quickly grew into three, I will be telling you about Jesse Pratt's path of destruction.

The many wives, partners, children, and sex workers he left bloodied and abused the women he may have

had a hand in killing and the young victim that earned him the title of oldest

inmate serving life in an Oregon penitentiary, Carrie Love.

Today's episode came about courtesy of our True Crime Tuesday segment,

which we host weekly on our local CBS Affiliate's Morning Show. When looking up unsolved cases to share, I came across

Virginia's story on the Charlie Project website. There I read about her possible connection

to Jesse Pratt, and once I looked up his name the information and his

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