This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Halloon and Josh McCullough

tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.

Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.

Last week I took you down the path of harm and destruction left behind by Jesse Clarence

Pratt, how his partners Linda, Cheryl and Nancy and their children all became victims

of his violent temper and his hands.

I told you about the kidnapping and rape of Teresa and how Jesse could be the party responsible

for the disappearance of Virginia Rambus and that he was the last person seen with the

woman whose body was found in a gravel pile at a rest stop in Oregon, Carrie Love.

This week in part two of three I'll be telling you about Carrie and how good detective

work paired with strong forensics led to Jesse's arrest.

At the end of last week's episode I spoke about Bruce McDonald and how he found peculiar

personal items off the highway on June 17, 1986, taking them to the police, blood and

other evidence was discovered that had them believing they may soon be searching for

a murder victim.

When the name on the property discovered Carrie Love was matched to a woman who had left

on a road trip with her boss Jesse Pratt, concerns heightened, concerns that were validated

when a young woman's body that matched Carrie's description was found in a gravel pile.

Carrie Lynette Eckhart was born on March 3, 1966 when she was five several monumental changes

affected her life.

Her parents Connie and William divorced and her half sister Kelly was born.

Carrie's birth father wasn't much in the picture so when her stepfather James Love filled

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