Sandra Jane Ramsamooj was 19 when she was shot and killed in Salem, Oregon, in August 1974 while working at a grocery store.

Investigators believe Thomas Eugene Creech was responsible for Sandra’s death. Creech had a string of violent crimes across the early 1970s, had been committed briefly to the Oregon State Hospital, then released and employed in a maintenance position at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Portland. Authorities allege he killed another man, 22-year-old William Joseph Dean, in the church living quarters before traveling to Salem and killing Sandra. Creech was arrested in Idaho in November 1974 for the murders of Thomas Arnold and John Bradford; he later confessed to multiple killings and was convicted of five murders in three states.

What information can readers add about Sandra’s life, workplace, or the 1974 Salem investigation that might help clarify what happened?