UT UT - MARTY JAMES SHOOK, 22, Price, 12 June 1982 - POSSIBLE SERIAL KILLER

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"On June 12, 1982, Marty James Shook, a 22-year-old hitchhiker from Sparks, Nev., was killed execution-style in a canyon near Price, Utah. Shook was shot in the back of the head and his genitals were removed. His nude body was found by a fisherman. The crime is thought to be linked to a serial killer who was responsible for more than a dozen deaths that often left his victims mutilated and abandoned. The killer was never apprehended."

Here are some links on the case:
Serial Killers Remain Elusive Despite High-Tech Crimefighting

TENACIOUS INVESTIGATORS KEEP ON TRACK OF SERIAL KILLERS

Another of the related murders: Death of Wayne L. Rifendifer (1981) (related to Marty Shook murder) - Newspapers.com

 

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…The killing remains unsolved, as does the 1982 killing of 22-year-old Marty Shook in Utah. Police say they were killed by the same gun, and linked by proximity to Interstate 80.

The remains of Shook, 22, nude except for socks, were found June 14, 1982, by a fisherman in scrub oak off Route 40 in Daniel’s Canyon, 15 miles east of Heber City, Utah.

It is believed he was shot execution-style elsewhere and his body was dumped in the rural area.

Investigators determined he had hitchhiked two days earlier from Sparks, Nevada, which is along I-80 just east of the California border.

Shook, who was described as a free spirit, had worked in Colorado for a few summers. In 1982, according to Park, he decided to join his uncle and girlfriend on a fishing trip to California.

Shook and his uncle’s girlfriend got into an argument, and Shook said he was going back to Colorado. He had his uncle drop him off in Sparks on June 12, 1982, the detective said.

It is assumed he got a ride from there, likely with a truck driver on I-80 headed to Salt Lake, he said.

A trucker headed to Colorado after leaving Salt Lake likely would take Route 40 off I-80 at Park City and go through Heber City, near where the body was found,Park said.

Forty-seven hours after Shook was dropped off at Sparks, his body was discovered, police determined.

Shook was, as Park put it, “often off the grid.” His remains were not identified for several months, until his mother reported him missing after he failed to call her on her birthday, Park said.

42 years after her brother was killed and sexually mutilated in Pa., sister seeks justice

The unsolved Clinton County case has been linked to a similar killing not far from Interstate 80 in Utah that happened in 1982.

www.pennlive.com

 

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Cross-posting with associated thread..

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CO Thread 'CO- Wayne Leigh Rifendifer, 30, found naked, fatally shot & his genitals removed, dumped near Ravensburg State Park, 19 Aug.,'81, *New initiative*'

Feb 27, 2025

Feb. 26 2025

Man shot in head, sexually mutilated in cold case homicide

Pennsylvania State Police is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the resolution of a decades-old homicide case.The investigation centers on the

fox56.com

'CLINTON CO. (WOLF) — Pennsylvania State Police is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the resolution of a decades-old homicide case.

The investigation centers on the murder of Wayne Leigh Rifendifer, whose body was discovered on August 19, 1981, in a wooded area off Gottschall Road in Crawford Township, Clinton County, near Ravensburg State Park.

Rifendifer, 30, was found naked with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, and his genitals had been...

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Jack franklin andrews was found dismembered and castrated in Litchfield Connecticut in Nov of 1986.

Cold Case Jack Andrews

portal.ct.gov

The Connecticut State Police Western District Major Crime Squad is investigating the death of Jack Andrews. Jack Andrews was a transient who was known to hitchhike across the United States using tractor trailer trucks as his preferred transportation. Jack's dismembered body was found in the Litchfield Rest Area off of Route 8. The investigation developed indicates that Jack Andrews was last seen at a rest area off of I-95 in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Connecticut State Police Western District Major Crime Squad at the number listed below.

Connecticut State Police
Western District Major Crime Squad
(800) 575-6330, (203) 696-2561
Email: [email protected]

FOR HITCHHIKER, ALL ROADS LED TO A DEAD END

Joe Quartiero investigated a lot of brutal crimes in nine years as a state police detective, like the case of the airline pilot who fed his wife’s body into a wood chipper. But it’s the…

www.courant.com

Early on, detectives explored a tip that a particular truck was seen at the rest stop the morning Andrews’ body was discovered. Officials of that trucking company said there was no reason for one of their trucks to have been in the area that day. Police were never able to identify the truck driver.

The reluctance of potential witnesses to step forward also hurt the investigation. The Route 8 rest stop was known as a cruising area for people seeking clandestine homosexual liaisons. They were reluctant to talk to police about what they might have seen.

Also, Andrews had an extensive criminal record — 10 convictions that included six burglaries, assault with a weapon and assignation to commit prostitution. He used four aliases and was arrested in several states, including California, Kansas, Florida and Tennessee. Andrews also had spent some time in a mental hospital.

 

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The Albany Herald - Google News Archive Search

This article mentions an unnamed victim found in Georgia in July of 1983. He was found wearing a swimsuit and had been shot multiple times. It's unclear if he was ever identified.

Hitchhiker’s slaying 40 years ago in Clinton County remains an active investigation: state police

The nude, sexually mutilated body of Wayne Leigh Rifendifer was found near Ravensburg State Park on Aug. 19, 1981.

www.pennlive.com

In March 1994 state police in Maryland contacted Houseknecht about a murder in which the victim was castrated, he said.