The Mysterious Unsolved 1952 Crater Lake Murders

Charles Culhane, 53, was the national sales manager for United Motor Service, a subsidiary of General Motors, per the Medford Mail-Tribune. He and Albert Jones, 56, the company’s West Coast sales rep, were on a tour of Jones’ sales area. They had attended a meeting the day before with F.W. Eberlein and his partner John Vaughn, who owned a local auto parts store. With their work done, Jones planned to go fishing with Eberlien and Vaughn. Culhane was going to drop Jones off and meet up with him later. But neither businessman made it out of the park alive.

The investigators found little evidence to work with besides two shell casings from a .32 automatic pistol at the scene, according to the Crater Lake Institute. Lincoln Linse, an employee at a local lodge, believed he saw the killers that day. While hauling a truckload of canned goods to the lodge, he witnessed four men walking into the woods and later heard “two bangs,” per the Associated Press. Two were dressed in suits, while the other men looked “scruffy.” The next day, while Linse was gassing up, the two men pulled into the station in a black car. Linse distinctly recalled one of them. “I could tell he had a tattoo on his arm,” he told KATU. “The tattoo was of a naked lady with a bikini. Also at that time, he had a beaded belt. There was a name on the beaded belt: Ralph.”

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