The Threesome From Hell

Deborah Sue Spicer was born in 1962 in Ohio. Her family moved to California when she was five and then, a year or two later, to Oregon, settling in the Portland-Gresham area. She was a cheerleader at high school, graduated in 1980, and worked as a secretary until severe migraines forced her to give up the job. At 27 she was sociable and fond of skiing, tennis and nights out, and in the autumn of 1989 she had been drinking more than usual and had been arguing with her boyfriend.

On the evening of Friday, October 6th, 1989, Spicer cooked a stir-fry dinner for relatives and her boyfriend at a relative's house. She then went out to a bar in southeast Portland, where she was seen drinking with a man and a woman. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The three left the bar together at about 2.30 a.m. on October 7th, stopped to buy more beer, and briefly called at the house of Spicer's relative, where Spicer was seen going in and out freely and nobody appeared to be under duress. They then drove to the name withheld heres' rented house on the rural edge of Gresham, a small house on a very large isolated lot.

At about 4 a.m. Spicer telephoned her boyfriend. She was drunk and vague about where she was, but said she was at a couple's house in Gresham and that they wanted her to have a threesome. She asked how she could get out of it without causing trouble. The boyfriend later told police that she seemed uncomfortable rather than frightened.

Just after 6.30 a.m. that Saturday, Mike Lawson was fishing from the south bank of the Clackamas River at Carver, a rural unincorporated area south-east of Gresham, when he noticed a silver-blue or grey 1970s van moving back and forth at a gravel turnout on Oregon Highway 224, on top of the cliff across the river. About twenty minutes later he saw a bearded, burly man carry what appeared to be a naked woman in a fireman's carry to the edge of the cliff and throw her over. The body caught on an outcropping. The man climbed down and pushed it again, and it fell about 75 feet into the river. A second, clothed person was moving about near the van. The van then drove off. Lawson shouted to the other fishermen, who ignored him until the body drifted into shallow water and lodged in rocks near the bank. By then the van was gone. The fishermen drove to find telephones and called the sheriff.

Detectives and the medical examiner arrived with divers. The dead woman had been stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen and strangled by hand. Her face was badly bruised, both eyes blackened, and there were bruises consistent with her having been held down, but no defensive wounds. She was naked apart from a single turquoise earring. The only physical evidence recovered was two sperm heads, without tails, in her mouth. The body had also been injured in the fall. The cause of death was later given as strangulation, with the stab wounds expected to have been fatal had she not been choked first.

The next day, October 8th, a relative reported Spicer missing and she was identified from photographs. Her boyfriend told police about the 4 a.m. call. A tip from Klamath Falls about a van with a man and two women led nowhere. Investigators traced the bar and learned the names of the couple she had left with. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

The covered names drove a silver-blue 1976 Ford van with a grey stripe, no windows on the driver's side and Wisconsin plates, matching the fishermen's description. The couple had been in Oregon about two months. Police searched their rented house and found traces of blood in a bedroom, a large section of green carpet cut away, and, under the bed, a tiny turquoise earring matching the one on the body. The FBI joined the hunt. Relatives said the couple had been in touch and were heading back to Wisconsin. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed On Thursday, October 26th, a Green Bay officer spotted the van in the motel car park. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In the van police found the missing section of green carpet, heavily bloodstained, and blood in the van matched Spicer's blood type.

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the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now She testified that she was sexually attracted to women but not to Spicer, and cried throughout. details of the account remain covered until revealed

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