Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder,

necrophilia, and assault

that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Saturday, May 10th, 1969. It was a good day for fishing. Though the sky was gray and

pregnant with forthcoming rain, snow melt from the mountains, swelled Oregon's

long-term river with oxygen-rich water. It was the perfect condition for fish, ripe for the catch.

A lone angler stood in the cold muddy water searching for a spot to drop his line.

As his gaze traveled down the river his eye caught something unusual.

A shadow just beneath the surface.

Something large, bigger than a fish.

Too bright to be a log or rock.

It bombed and twisted in the current,

as if caught along the riverbed.

Curious, the fisherman laid his pole on the bank.

He wanted a closer look, but the current was too strong for him to safely wade much deeper.

He spotted a tree leaning out over the river just above the strange shape.

He carefully inched out onto the branch, peering into the murky water. What he saw made him recoil with horror

and disgust. It was a woman, pale as a ghost, with fine hair fanning out into the current. Her skin was graying.

Modeled and bloated. She had clearly been dead for quite some time.

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