Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions.
He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86.
Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com.
Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography.
His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism.
He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.
Murder in Washington: Notorious Crime Sites is a visual return to 95 infamous murder scenes profiling the shocking and detailed narratives behind each tragedy. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure murder sites and stories remain buried awaiting rediscovery.
The Murder in Washington edition is segmented into eight categories including assassinations, historical legacies, premeditated homicides, chance encounters and impulse killings, law enforcement fatalities and controversies, unsolved murders, rampage and serial killers.
The edition provides the precise location of each crime site, fatality victims, perpetrators and for those still living, the penal institution where they are incarcerated.
Cases profiled include:
Ted Bundy: The Serpent who loved to kill women
Gary Ridgway: The Green River Prostitute Killer
Uncle Joe Kondro: A family or friend's worst nightmare
Lee Boyd Malvo: Under the spell and shadow of the DC Sniper
Kenneth Bianchi: A Serial Killer's Final Misdeed
Rodney Alcala: Stalking and strangling beauty
Donna Perry: Transgender prostitute killer
Maurice Clemmons: His four police officer shooting spree
Legacy hex of serial killer Jake Bird
Disappearing investment trail of Doug Carlile
Legacy of the People's Theatre and Shooting of the Seattle Police Chief
Seattle's underpass Jungle killings
Mysterious assassination of Federal Judge Tom Wales
Ann Marie Burr's kidnapping and linkage to Ted Bundy
DNA tracing genealogies condemn two Tacoma child killers forty-years later
Billy Gohl and the floating cadavers of Aberdeen
Tacoma's missing Puyallup Avenue streetwalkers
Kidnapping and murder of little Charles Mattson
Everett Union protest dockside massacre
Incestuous killing of Sylvia Gaines.
Trash talk shooting by rapper Lil Danger
Unsolved Civil Rights advocate Edwin Pratt shooting
Attack of a Killer Werewolf
Recording artist Little Willie John's afterhours party homicide
The Gits lead singer Mia Zapata abduction and murder
The disappearance of radio activist Mike Webb
The Hangman's noose too light to support Mitchell Rupp
The savage beating of Seattle's Tuba Man
Wilson, Anderson, Goldmark and Rafay Family killings
Post Mount Saint Helens Volcano hitchhiker discovery
The detonation of Oleg Babichenko's car
The seducer and killer with a thousand identities
Dragging vehicle death of Susette Werner.
Aurora Bridge public transport murder-suicide
Gay hate crime shooting from a back seat driver
Sweltering summer night bludgeoning of Geneva MacDonald
Wah Mee Gambling Club massacre
The therapist who crossed professional boundaries with his life
Starvation Heights
A homicidal impatience by a police officer over a DUI
Capitol Hill district massacre
Marysville High School cafeteria shooting
The clueless Spokane leach and killer
Red Barn Door Tavern bloodbath
Seattle Pacific University lone gunman
Death and rape in Seattle's South Park residential district
Seattle's Café Racer murder-suicide
A legitimate example of Killer's remorse
Stalking and slaying an Elementary school teacher
Assault on the Jewish Federation Building
Mahoney trunk murder
Pang Frozen Foods arson fire
An armed vendetta against pedophiles
Survivalist Peter Keller's kills his family
Trang Dai restaurant gang slaying
A Seattle police officer ambush
George Russell fatal voyeurism
Police beating of a simple man Otto Zehm
Freighter pilot's collision with the West Seattle Bridge
And Even More Murder Narratives….
Título : Murder in Washington: Notorious Crime Sites
EAN : 9781005906412
Editorial : Marques Vickers
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