A truck driver, Sanders kidnapped and murdered two young women near Ephrata, Washington in 1980, followed by two teenage girls in Spokane in 1983.
Formerly of Fairbanks, Alaska, the two women began hitchhiking across the Western United States in 1980, but made promises to their parents saying they would be home by April 6, 1980.
[1] On October 10, 1981, the bodies of Weatter and Allen were found along Interstate 90 in Washington, covered in several inches of ash from the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and they were concluded to have been shot to death.
[2] In May 1983, Rhonda Rima and Elizabeth Marks, two 15-year-old girls, were last seen at the Lilac Festival carnival in Spokane, Washington.
[4] In order to avoid the death penalty, he pleaded guilty, along with admitting involvement in the murders of Weatter and Allen, and received a life sentence[7] which he was serving at the Coyote Ridge Correctional Center, Connell, Washington.