This, it would later be revealed, was generally in keeping with his M.O.: some sexual act followed by a. After sexually assaulting them, he shot them each in the back of the head. The assailant took both women into a back room and ordered them to the floor. Soon he saw another cleaner, 20-year-old Lisa Garcia. Corralling Hull with one hand and holding a gun in the other, he walked her down a hall. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket. He was strikingly handsome, maybe six feet tall, blessed with a torrent of thick, curly brown hair and eyes to match. She was preparing to leave when she was grabbed by a man who’d somehow managed to enter the building.
18, 1981, Hull had been nearing the end of her Sunday-night shift, cleaning the TransAmerica office building in the central Oregon town of Keizer. Some time around nine o’clock on the evening of Jan. Gradually her moans and her deep, labored breathing diminished until her body was drained of life. She was surrounded by her discarded clothes. Shari Hull, age 20, lay splayed naked on the floor, blood pooling near her matted hair, brain matter seeping from her skull and spackling the carpet. Even as crime scenes go, this one was sensationally gruesome.
