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In the spring of 1981, the quiet community of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was rocked by a brutal and shocking crime. Pamela Sue Barker, a white female, was found dead in April of that year. At the time, she had been living under the alias Michelle Lynn Pearson, a name adopted as part of the federal witness protection program. Her life, and that of her common-law husband, Marion Albert Pruett, was supposed to be a new beginning, shielded from a past that had led them to seek government protection. ...Read More
Victim Details

Pamela Sue Barker

Female

White / Caucasian

Rio Rancho

NM

1981-04

Pamela

Sue Barker

11/06/2025