Shirley Wallace

A woman is held hostage and brutally murdered
On a summer evening in Eugene, Oregon, the life of 31-year-old Shirley Wallace was brutally cut short. It was July 20, 1975, and Wallace, a Caucasian woman, was at her job at the Gentlemen's Retreat, a massage parlor on River Road. The night took a terrifying turn when a man, described as a white male in his twenties, entered the establishment armed with a shotgun. He proceeded to take Wallace and another female employee, who was 24, hostage.

The assailant bound both women's hands and, af ...

Shirley Wallace Homicide - Lane County