... but there was more. Marquette said he had killed still another woman in mid-1974 shortly after his release from prison. He didn't know her name or anything about her. He figured nobody had even missed her because he'd never heard anything more about her. Was this the woman whose panty crotch was found hidden in Marquette's trailer register? He would not say.
As he talked, Jim Byrnes recognized that the M.O. in 1974 was chillingly similar to that of Marquette's other two known murders. He had picked up his anonymous victim in Dubious Dudley's bar in Salem, brought her home for sex, and according to Marquette, she too had backed down at the last moment. And she too had been strangled, dismembered, and disposed of.
Marquette agreed to lead detectives to the spot where he had left the 1974 victim. On June 13 Jim Byrnes and Kilburn McCoy, along with members of the Marion County D.A.'s staff and the suspect's lawyers, traveled to the lonely, rugged area near the Roaring River Rest Stop alongside the Clackamas River. There the admitted three-time mutilation killer pointed out two graves a half mile apart. Approximately three feet below the ground they found the skeletal parts of the unfortunate lady from Dubious Dudley's. There was no clothing, no jewelry, to help in identification. Worst of all, there was no head at all. Dental records would have been the only positive means to find out who she was; fingertips and other soft tissue had long since decomposed.
She remains today simply Jane Doe, a tragic victim of a predatory killer.
