Cherry City Confidential: 12 Murder Cases that Rocked Oregon's Capital City. Este artículo no está disponible.Cherry City Confidential: 12 Murder Cases that Rocked Oregon's Capital City

Salem, Oregon: A nice place to raise your family.

At least that’s what people say.

A dozen murderers. 74 victims. Some of Oregon’s most brutal crimes have occurred in the Cherry City-but then, every town has its dark side, doesn’t it?

This book explores some of the area’s most sensational crimes, including serial killers, desperados, a filicide, a battered wife, a mass poisoning, and much more from 1902 through the 1980s.

Among the tales: Jerome Brudos who abducted and strangled. Richard Marquette who dismembered. William Scott Smith who strangled young women. Lawrence Moore who unloaded a gun in a crowded bar. Randall Woodfield who murdered up and down I-5. Otto Hooker who killed a prison superintendent. Richard Wampler who murdered the head of the Oregon State Police. And finally, the continuing mystery of who killed the head of the Department of Corrections, Michael Francke.

J. E. McComb is a lifelong resident of Salem, Oregon, also known as the "Cherry City," and drives past the city's murder scenes daily. She worked at the Mental Health Division in Salem, then for the Oregon Legislature, even helping the Judiciary Committee that investigated whether corruption in his department was behind the murder of Corrections Director Michael Francke. McComb is a graduate of University of Oregon, in both psychology and community service/public affairs.