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Janet Rose Shirar:1980, Kokomo, Indiana

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       Janet Shirar was born on March 10th, 1951 to Elma Rose Marquis Shirar (later Fitch) and Richard Shirar. She had a brother named Steve and a sister named Kathy. The family lived near Converse, Indiana which is just a short drive east of Kokomo.     Janet was a graduate of Oak Hill High School in 1969.     She went on to college at Indiana University-Kokomo and did her senior year in Bloomington, Indiana. She worked first as a teacher in Aurora, Illinois. That’s a rural suburb of Chicago. She was a teacher of special needs students.    Her parents had divorced and each had remarried by 1980.    Janet Shirar was teaching in 1980 at Bon Air Elementary in Kokomo, Indiana. She had only recently moved back to Indiana. Aurora and the surrounding area had seen a lot of unsolved murders of young women. Now we know that serial killer, Bruce Lindahl, was responsible for many murders of young wome...
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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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