Murder in Room 305 by Gary C. King

Author:Gary C. King [King, Gary C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder, oregon, portland, eugene, prostitution, lissy, conspiracy, murderforhire
Publisher: Gary C. King
Published: 2012-04-14T23:15:43+00:00

It soon became apparent to Davis and Poppe that Vanessa Blanchard wasn't the only person who had information that implicated Michael David Lissy in Kathy's murder. Word on the street, they learned, was that he had solicited a number of people besides Vanessa to find him a hit man who would carry out his dirty work. Trouble was, how many of these street people would make reliable witnesses? Many of them were prostitutes, drug addicts, and petty criminals, some of whom were, themselves, wanted by the police on a variety of charges. Could they be made to talk? And if so, would they tell the truth? Davis and Poppe had serious doubts about that, but they had little choice and virtually nowhere else to go since these were Lissy's "friends," the people with whom he preferred to associate. They had to rely on these people if they were going to be able to build a strong enough case to prosecute Lissy for his wife's murder.

Along those lines Davis and Poppe soon learned about a young woman named Beth Cumley, then twenty-two, a sometimes prostitute who had worked for Lissy at his scuba shops. Their relationship had started off innocuously enough, but eventually one thing had led to another and she had ended up a little more intimately involved with Lissy than she had wanted or planned.

Beth first met Lissy through a friend who had introduced them toward the end of 1982. That initial meeting occurred in downtown Portland at a place for hot-tubbing called Just for the Health of It, and the meeting turned out to be for sexual activity for which Lissy paid her $50. The sexual liaisons for pay continued in an on-and-off manner for some time, with $50 being the standard payment, until Lissy eventually asked Beth to work for him at his shops for an hourly wage. She began working for him in May 1983 for $4 per hour. When he paid her for her work, the check would often include payment for doing other things at the scuba shops, personal errands, and sometimes sexual favors. Sometimes, she said, Lissy would tell her, "If you want your check, you are going to have to do something sexual before you get it."

Then, in April 1984, Lissy asked her a question which had disturbed her immensely.

"He asked me, off the wall, if I'd ever kill anybody for ten thousand dollars," said Beth. "I told him there was no way, that life means more than money to me, that I wouldn't do anything like that. Nobody's life is worth any amount of money ... he mentioned to me that if you want to get anywhere in life, you have to do it illegally." Beth quit working for Lissy around the middle of June 1984, claiming that she no longer had adequate transportation to get back and forth to work. It was as good an excuse as any to separate herself from him, and happened to be the truth. She

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