Elena

So he knelt down beside Linda on the floor and detected slight movement in her chest. So he wrapped his hands around her neck and began choking her until he was certain that she was dead. He choked her to death. Oh, my God. In the days that followed this, he dressed and undressed Linda's body, putting her in the undergarments he'd been stealing throughout the previous months.

And at night, after Ralphine and the kids had gone to sleep, Jerry would sneak down to the basement to rape her dead body and photograph her in various states of undress.

And at night, after Ralphine and the kids had gone to sleep, Jerry would sneak down to the basement to rape her dead body and photograph her in various states of undress.

And it was so fast and so horrific. And... And then his kids are playing upstairs.

And it was so fast and so horrific. And... And then his kids are playing upstairs.

Fair warning... He's a brutal, sadistic fuck. So, like, fair warning for the rest of this. I mean, part two is going to get somehow even worse.

Fair warning... He's a brutal, sadistic fuck. So, like, fair warning for the rest of this. I mean, part two is going to get somehow even worse.

But after a few days when Linda's body had begun to decompose, Jerry used a hacksaw to remove Linda's left foot, which he kept in the back of the chest freezer in the basement. What? He kept her left foot in a freezer in his home's basement. With the shoe?

But after a few days when Linda's body had begun to decompose, Jerry used a hacksaw to remove Linda's left foot, which he kept in the back of the chest freezer in the basement. What? He kept her left foot in a freezer in his home's basement. With the shoe?

Well, in the rest of the remains, he bundled up among some old car parts and threw them, according to him, over a rail somewhere into the Willamette River. And later, for reasons that remain unclear to this day, Jerry told investigators he, quote, didn't know where he disposed of Linda Slauson, but thought she was still alive when thrown over the railway railing.

Well, in the rest of the remains, he bundled up among some old car parts and threw them, according to him, over a rail somewhere into the Willamette River. And later, for reasons that remain unclear to this day, Jerry told investigators he, quote, didn't know where he disposed of Linda Slauson, but thought she was still alive when thrown over the railway railing.

How would he think that if he choked the life out of her? Exactly. And spent days dressing her and undressing her and committing necrophilia.

How would he think that if he choked the life out of her? Exactly. And spent days dressing her and undressing her and committing necrophilia.

Yeah. So it's just, he was a strange motherfucker.

Yeah. So it's just, he was a strange motherfucker.

When Linda failed to return home that evening that she was killed, her mother Mildred reported her missing to the police and told them she'd last been seen in Portland where she was going to sell encyclopedias.

When Linda failed to return home that evening that she was killed, her mother Mildred reported her missing to the police and told them she'd last been seen in Portland where she was going to sell encyclopedias.

And her disappearance coincided with the disappearance of another local girl, a 14-year-old girl named Terry Chambers, whose parents speculated she'd maybe run away to join a quote-unquote hippie community in Washington. So Mildred Slauson insisted her daughter was not doing that. She had not run away. She had never given any indication that she was unhappy or wanted to leave home.

And her disappearance coincided with the disappearance of another local girl, a 14-year-old girl named Terry Chambers, whose parents speculated she'd maybe run away to join a quote-unquote hippie community in Washington. So Mildred Slauson insisted her daughter was not doing that. She had not run away. She had never given any indication that she was unhappy or wanted to leave home.

But the two stories wound up being associated, and Linda's disappearance was just treated as she was a runaway.