Marty Ray Jones was 18 when he was murdered on July 27, 1973, in Pasadena, Harris County, Texas. He was one of the victims in the series of killings later called the Houston Mass Murders, carried out by Dean Corll with the assistance of two teenage accomplices.

On the day he died Jones was last seen walking along 27th Street with his friend and roommate Charles Cobble and with Elmer Wayne Henley. Marty was strangled with a Venetian blind cord and buried in a boat shed, a site where many of Corll’s victims were found. After Corll was killed during an altercation, Henley provided information that led authorities to the burial sites, including Jones’s.