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William Clement Marks was a 23-year-old homeless man who was killed in October 1991 after being lured by Douglas Franklin Wright with an offer of paid work. Wright reportedly promised $10 an hour to clear brush at a youth camp, bought food for Marks and two other homeless men, Anthony Arthur Barker and William Ray Davis, and offered alcohol. Once the men were intoxicated, Wright fatally shot each of them in the head with a pistol on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.

Wright’s arrest followed the escape of another intended victim, Randy Scott Henry, who fled to the highway and alerted police after Wright shot and killed Anthony Shawn Nelson on October 20, 1991. Wright was convicted in June 1993 of the aggravated murders of Barker, Marks, and Davis and was sentenced to death on October 11, 1993. Wright was executed by lethal injection on September 6, 1996.

Did anyone who knew William Clement Marks or his whereabouts in Portland in October 1991 see him after he answered that work offer?