A year and a half after the eruption, the bodies of two young women, Marsha Anne Weatter and Katherine Jean Allen, 18 and 20 years old respectively, were discovered. They were believed to have been murdered six weeks before the eruption, rather than being killed by the events. Backpacks belonging to them had been found in July 1980, but a layer of ash deposited by the eruption may have hidden the bodies, also preventing animals disturbing the remains. An autopsy showed they had each been shot once. The murders of Weatter and Allen were later linked to serial killer Martin Lee Sanders.
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