Post by Scumhunter on Sept 29, 2016 0:40:29 GMT -5
(Pictured: Above: Left: Marks, circa 1988. Right: Age-progression to 43, circa 2012. Photo Credits: Charley Project, NCMEC)
Missing Person Profile as of September 29th, 2016: (Based on Charley Project, missingkids.org)
Missing Since: October 18, 1988 from Stockton, California
Date Of Birth: November 30, 1969
Age (at time of disappearance): 18 years old
Age (as of 9/29/2016): 46 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 110 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Marks's ears are pierced.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black skirt, a black long-sleeved knit shirt, a brown scarf tied around her waist, brown high-top shoes and a black leather necklace with silver spheres attached to it.
TIPS: Anyone having information should call 1-800-THE-LOST or the Stockton Police Department (California) 1-209-937-8203
From the Charley Project:
Marks accompanied her mother to the San Joaquin County Mental Health Department in Stockton, California on October 18, 1988. Her mother was employed at the department. Marks then walked alone to the Department Of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Parks Street to get an identification card. She is known to have arrived at the DMV, because her card was mailed to her several days later. Marks called her mother at work after leaving the DMV. She was unable to reach her and left a message on the answering machine. During the message she didn't sound as if anything was wrong. She has never been heard from again.
Marks was supposed to meet a friend before she began work at 5:00 p.m., but did not keep the appointment. She did not take any personal belongings besides her purse when she went missing. She never retrieved her last paycheck from her place of employment, Rick's New York Style Pizza, where she was a waitress.
Wesley Howard Shermantine Jr. and Loren Joseph Herzog, the so-called "Speed Freak Killers," are possible suspects in Standly's case. They were arrested in 2000 and ultimately convicted of murdering several females in the 1980s and 1990s; authorities believe they had as many as fifteen victims. Photographs of both men are posted below this case summary. Shermantine is on death row. Herzog's sentence was reduced from 78 years to 14 years after the court ruled his confession had been coerced. He was paroled in 2010 and then committed suicide in January 2012, after he found out his former partner had begun cooperating with authorities and had offered to reveal the location of victims' bodies in exchange for a payment of $33,000.
Shermantine led investigators to the skeletal remains of Chevelle Wheeler and Cyndi Vanderheiden, who'd been missing since 1985 and 1998 respectively. He also pointed out an abandoned well in Linden, California that contained some 300 human bones and personal items. Shermantine stated the well contains up to twenty victims, Garecht being one of those. He blames Herzog for all the murders and says he only helped with disposing the bodies. Authorities are in the process of sorting out the contents of the well and attempting to identify the bones. Shermantine and Herzog are being investigated in other missing persons' cases, including Phillip Martin, Michaela Garecht, Susan Bender, Sylvia Standly and
Ruth Leamon. Victims Kimberly Billy, a 19-year-old who disappeared in 1984, and Joann Hobson, a 16-year-old who disappeared in 1985, have already been identified.
Foul play is suspected in Marks's case. She had moved to California only a few months prior to her disappearance.
charleyproject.org/cases/m/marks_gayle.html
NCMEC link: www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/1042979
Thoughts? Online reports suggest that Gayle's case was featured on America's Most Wanted's website, although never aired on the show itself.
(Pictured: Above: Left: Wesley Shermantine, Right: Loren Herzog Photo Credits: Charley Project)
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