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Wayne Leigh Rifendifer:1981, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

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    On August 19th, 1981, Wayne Rifendifer was found in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The nearest town is called Jersey Shore but this Jersey Shore is not on the Atlantic Ocean. It is located in Central Pennsylvania along West Branch of the Susquehanna River. It is not too long of a drive north of Harrisburg. ( A town called Lovelock is also nearby and is the town mentioned in the 1981 articles.)   (Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania is the hometown of the writer Hunter S. Thompson. There’s not a lot of tourism there or other things to do it seems. Guys who like Hunter S. Thompson, drugs and guns enough might want to make a trip there.)    Wayne had been shot in the head with a .38 caliber weapon and was also castrated.      (FBI ballistics experts have determined that the same gun was used in both the Rifendifer and 1982 Marty James Shook murders.)    Wayne Rifendifer was born on August 1st, 1951 to Lucid Rifendifer (She...
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Marty James Shook:1982, Daniel’s Canyon, Utah

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        Marty Shook was born on July 21st, 1960 in Sacramento County, California. Mother’s maiden name was Fink.    In 1977 he was attending school in Folsom, California. Marty graduated from a different high school in 1979 in Truckee.    On June 14th, 1982 Marty was found deceased by a fisherman in Daniel’s Canyon, Wasatch County, Utah. That’s south of Heber City and around an hour drive south of Interstate 80 on Highway 40.    Marty Shook was murdered by a .38 caliber gunshot wound to the head and his remains were also horribly mutilated. The killer had castrated him. Marty was also found without clothing.    What was Marty Shook doing so far from Truckee? Who was he with?     According to family, Marty was an avid hiker. He set out for Colorado to find work. He planned to hitchhike there and camp along the way. He had a backpack and a bedroll with him. Did he go alone?...
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Stanley Robert Leighton:1977, Truckee, California

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        Stanley Robert Leighton was born on March 25th 1955 in Marysville, California to Mary Ann Riedel Leighton and Lloyd Leighton.    Stanley had a sister named Susan and three brothers: Lloyd Jr., George, and Timothy.   In 1960, Stan’s mother, Mary Ann, passed away. Stan was only five.   Stan’s father remarried some time later and Timothy and Susan joined the family.   Stanley Robert Leighton graduated from Yuba City High School in 1973.    In 1975 he was listed as living at 1830 Clement Way Apartment 7 in the Marysville city directory. (Marysville and Yuba City are not very far apart)   He played a lot of recreational softball with his high school friends in a local league in those days. He was a second baseman for a team known as “Montezuma’s Revenge”.They had a lot of fun. His friends remember him as a nice guy and a good friend.    In 1977 Stanley was in the...
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Susan Rush:1976, Washington, Pennsylvania

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       Susan Elizabeth Rush was born on October 10th 1955. She had two brothers, Gary and Terry, and a sister named Judy.    Susan  graduated from Washington High School in 1974 and went on to the Pennsylvania Community Beauty Academy. She received her beautician’s license just weeks before her murder.    Susan was working at Murphy Mart at the Washington Mall. She was hoping to get a job as a beautician in the near future. Thanksgiving was the next day and she was probably looking forward to the big day with family and friends.    Susan did not make it home from work that day after 5 p.m. Her family likely began calling friends and family at first. Her brothers, Gary and Terry called the police at midnight when there was still no sign of her.  North Ave. roughly where Susan was found.   She was found by her brother on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 25th, 1976. She had been strangled and p...
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