When 20 year old Carrie Love’s purse was found wrapped in a discarded pillowcase on the side of Highway 97 in Oregon, it didn’t take long for authorities to close in on one suspect. Jesse Pratt, her new boss at Northern Star Trucking in Seattle, Washington.The two had set out on a business trip June 16, 1986 but only Jesse would return.


Jesse had a history of violence and previous run ins with the law. Nearly every woman in his life, including his mother, would speak against him at his trial for the murder of Carrie Love. He was a man with connections to people you wouldn’t want to know. And there is no way of knowing what else he managed to get away with. When his time finally came, none of that mattered and he was ultimately convicted of Carrie’s murder in 1988 and again in 1991.


Pratt now sits in Oregon’s Correctional Facility in Salem. He is the oldest convict there.



Some information from this episode:


Fatal Journey by Jack Giek


Virginia Rambus - information on her disappearance

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Link-to-Candy-Man-sought-in-teen-s-2681143.php

www.blackandmissing.org

https://charleyproject.org/case/virginia-anne-rambusv

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2402dfwa.html


Forensic Files Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdZ-PfsgQ4


Information on the filming of Forensic Files episode

https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/top_stories/killer-tracked-by-his-tire-tread/article_efd307ed-7e37-5979-89b9-f0680bcfb568.html


Appeals Court Documents from October 4, 1989

https://www.leagle.com/decision/19901135785p2d35011133

Appeals Court Documents from May 11, 2005

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/or-court-of-appeals/1492562.html


Pratt moved off death row

https://ashlandtidings.com/opinion/columns/2-amp-quot-mentally-retarded-amp-quot-inmates-moved-off-death-row