The Marie Malvar Killing




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In the month of April, the case took an interesting turn. On 04/30/83, Marie Malvar and her pimp were working the Pacific Coast Highway. Marie soon left with a trick in a vehicle, described by her pimp, as a green pickup with a camper on it and a primer patch on the side (possibly blocking out a logo). Curious, the pimp followed them a short distance and noticed that they appeared to be arguing. He attempted to chase the truck down but lost the vehicle in traffic.


 




One week later, he notified the police that Marie had never returned. Fearing that the police would be of little help, he contacted Marieâââ‰â¢s father and the two began looking for Marie on their own. After searching for some time they found a pickup truck that looked like the one the pimp had seen Marie enter. They contacted the police immediately. The police arrived at the home and questioned two men located inside - Dale Wells and Gary Ridgeway. They made a cursory search and found no trace of the woman. The police explained to Marieâââ‰â¢s father that nothing appeared out of the ordinary. Marieâââ‰â¢s father accepted this without question since he was suspicious of the pimpâââ‰â¢s story anyway. Remember this âââ‰â¬Å later weâââ‰â¢ll discover there was much more to the Marie Malvar suspectâââ¬Ã¦


 




In May of 1983 a very important piece of evidence surfaced that if handled properly, could have been the biggest lead in the case - an airport maintenance man was emptying trash when he found a driverâââ‰â¢s license behind some chairs near gate B4 of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The license belonged to a Marie Malvar. The police were immediately notified but strangely, they never showed up to retrieve the evidence. Two years later it dawned on them that they could check the flight records for that departing gate and possibly even retrieve fingerprints from the license itself. They contacted the airport and were disappointed to discover that the license had already been destroyed and the flight records were no longer available.


 




Still More Victims




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Later in the month of May 1983, a family looking for mushrooms several miles east of the Strip, discovered a womanâââ‰â¢s body. The woman was fully clothed but otherwise displayed some very unusual characteristics. The head was covered with a paper sack, the arms crossed in front of the body, and a fish was draped across the womanâââ‰â¢s throat. She had a bottle gripped tightly in her right hand and freshly ground meat clinched in her left hand. She had a driverâââ‰â¢s license in her pocket that identified her as Carol Ann Christensen.


 




The body was taken to the morgue for a more thorough examination where it was discovered that her bra was on inside out and her shoelaces were untied. They also determined that she had been strangled with a thin cord and the body immersed under water. Since the body was found several miles from the Strip and the conditions of the body were substantially different from the other killings, the police wondered if they had another killer on their hands. This was soon discounted when they tracked down the origin of the sack found on the victimâââ‰â¢s head - the sack was from a 7-11 store located on South 144th Street, a store that lies right in the middle of the Strip and often noted as the location where many of the victimâââ‰â¢s were last seen. It appeared that the killer had begun using another location to dump his victims.


 




Several other victims disappeared in May 1983. Martina Authorlee, 18 years old, was working the Strip when she was picked up by a trick and never seen again. Cheryl Wims, also 18 years old, was picked up at the same spot and never seen again. Tammy Liles, 16 years old, was picked up on the Strip and never returned. Keli Kay McGuiness left the Three Bars motel to work the Strip near 216th Street never to be seen again. And Costance Elizabeth Naon, 20 years old and strangely, the only victim that was not a prostitute, called her boyfriend from the Red Lion bar on the Strip, and told him she would be home in 20 minutes. She never made it back home.


 




Unusual Misses


 




In June of 1983 another bizarre instance occurred. A woman called the police to report a strange smell in the area of Raperâââ‰â¢s Road, a dark alley near the airport. The police investigated and reported that the smell was nothing more than a pile of dead fish. Later that month, players and parents at a little league game near Raperâââ‰â¢s Road, noticed the same foul smell. The smell was bad enough that the games for that day were called off. One month later, a man picking apples in the same area found a skeleton under a pile of brush.


 




The bodyâââ‰â¢s location was near the dividing line between the airport and King County. The two authorities argued about jurisdiction and finally called in a surveyor to determine whose responsibility the body was. The surveyor determined that the body laid in King County and not the Port Authority area. With the jurisdiction question out of the way, the investigation continued which in the end, never resulted in a positive identification of the body. To complicate matters even further, about a month later another skeleton was found in the same location. The second body found near the little league fields was eventually identified and determined to be Shawndra Summers who had disappeared while working the Strip in 1982.

Great story, crazypreacher. Hope you'll write more :cheer: