Marie Cushman, 51, was found nude and strangled in a room at the Casbah Hotel in Las Vegas after meeting Carroll Edward Cole at the hotel bar. The body was discovered by housekeeping staff the day after she accepted Cole’s invitation to join him.

The investigation tied Cushman’s murder to Carroll Edward Cole, who had an extensive criminal history and later confessed to at least 13 murders, claiming his total might be as high as 35. Cole’s pattern, as described in court, involved meeting women in bars, having sexual contact, and then strangling them. He was tried in 1984 for Cushman’s 1979 killing (and for the 1977 slaying of Kathryn Joan Blum) and was convicted for Cushman’s murder; the court sentenced him to death.

Cole was executed by lethal injection in Nevada State Prison in 1985. Does anyone have memories of Marie Cushman or information about her life before that November in 1979?