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Marcia Etro

Staff member at Paramount Drug Co. in Astoria, Oregon, who received the farewell letter from illustrator Petra Mathers that led to the discovery of her and husband Michael's deaths.

Sep 3, 2026

speaker_5UNKNOWN
16:14
Would you mind reading it to us?
16:16
Hmm.
16:23
When Michael and I got together some 40 plus years ago, we'd always planned on checking out together.
16:28
When the time comes, it did.
16:32
And our resting place is in the graveyard in Oysterville, always a favorite destination for a fair weather outing.
16:41
Which really, that's not so depressing over there in the winter.
16:49
Come see us sometime.

21 MINS LATER

37:35
But that wasn't them.
speaker_9HOST
16:09
Would you mind reading it to us?
16:11
Hmm.
16:18
When Michael and I got together some 40 plus years ago, we'd always planned on checking out together.
16:24
When the time comes, it did.
16:26
And our resting place is in the graveyard in Oysterville, always a favorite destination for a fair weather outing.
16:36
Which really, that's not.
16:39
It's so depressing over there in the winter.

19 MINS LATER

36:00
But that wasn't them.

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