ELKO COUNTY, Nev. (ABC4) — More than 30 years ago, an unknown woman was found dead along I-80, 18 miles west of the Nevada-Utah border. Today, the Elko County Sheriff’s Office confirmed her identity and who her killer was.
According to a press release from the Elko County Sheriff’s Office, the unknown woman, called “Shafter Jane” for the location she was found throughout the decades-long investigation, has been identified as Marion H. Alexander.
However, a few months before detectives planned to arrest and charge the suspect in her murder, Roger Lee Durkee, he passed away in late 2025.
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The initial investigation
In November 1993, the Elko County Sheriff’s Office responded to a body found near the Shafter exit on the north side of I-80. She was nude, and an autopsy showed she had been shot twice by a “small caliber firearm.”…