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Again, not much info out on this one, but it is chilling that her death matched other cases in Tennessee and Missouri
From the Bend Bulletin
Mary Jo Templeton: Templetons dismembered body was discovered April 30, 1979, after a Pacific Power and Light employee found a human thigh on the grates above the turbines at the north end of Drake Parks Mirror Pond.
A scuba team searched the area below the power station there and found additional body parts. The rest of her body was found several weeks later in the waters of Mirror Pond.
A state medical examiner found that Templetons body had been cut apart with a heavy knife. He estimated that her body had been in the water for a day or two when her thigh was found.
Her last known address was at the El-Rancho Motel in Redmond, and she had worked as a waitress and hostess in Redmond and Bend.
The last person to speak with Templeton was a friend in The Dalles whom she called April 26, 1979.
Templeton stood 5 feet 4 inches, weighed 110 pounds and often wore a black wig over her auburn hair.
In 1988, a detailed description of the murder was sent to the FBIs violent crimes clearinghouse, which found the method of her killing matched four homicides in Missouri and two in Tennessee. Those murders remain unsolved.
From the Bend Bulletin
Mary Jo Templeton: Templetons dismembered body was discovered April 30, 1979, after a Pacific Power and Light employee found a human thigh on the grates above the turbines at the north end of Drake Parks Mirror Pond.
A scuba team searched the area below the power station there and found additional body parts. The rest of her body was found several weeks later in the waters of Mirror Pond.
A state medical examiner found that Templetons body had been cut apart with a heavy knife. He estimated that her body had been in the water for a day or two when her thigh was found.
Her last known address was at the El-Rancho Motel in Redmond, and she had worked as a waitress and hostess in Redmond and Bend.
The last person to speak with Templeton was a friend in The Dalles whom she called April 26, 1979.
Templeton stood 5 feet 4 inches, weighed 110 pounds and often wore a black wig over her auburn hair.
In 1988, a detailed description of the murder was sent to the FBIs violent crimes clearinghouse, which found the method of her killing matched four homicides in Missouri and two in Tennessee. Those murders remain unsolved.