Cherry City Confidential

<p><strong>Salem Oregon: A nice place to raise your family.</strong></p><p><strong>At least that's what people say.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>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?</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p>