Missing Woman: Gayle Marks -- CA -- 10/18/1988

[Denise]

OCTOBER 18, 1988
DOB: 11/30/1969
FROM STOCKTON, CA
5'4" AND 110 POUNDS
BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES
AGE AT DISAPPEARANCE: 18 YEARS
LAST SEEN AT STOCKTON, CA
DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES
INFORMATION CALL: STOCKTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 209-937-8323 or 209-937-8377

Print a Poster: http://www.projectjason.org/aan/AAN_GayleMarks.pdf


Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Read our blog about missing persons:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

If you have seen any of our missing persons, please call the law enforcement agency listed on the post. All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers they seek in regards to the disappearance.

[Denise]

Gayle's mother has lovingly created a web site to make sure we all know her daughter is still missing. Please go by and sign the guest book she is keeping for Gayle

http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/GayleMarks/

Here are some more links for Gayle
http://doenetwork.bravepages.com/34dfca.html

http://www.findlaci2003.us/missing-people.html

http://www.fomlo.homestead.com/photogallery2.html

http://www.finddru.com/links.htm

http://www.rachelcookesearch.org/links.html

[Denise]

Please watch this moving video about Gayle's story:

YouTube - Beyond Words - The Untold Story of Gayle Marks

[Denise]

Gayle Marie Marks



Top Row and Bottom Left and Center: Marks, circa 1988;
Bottom Right: Age-progression at an unknown age by Wesley Neville

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: October 18, 1988 from Stockton, California
Classification[: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: November 30, 1969
Age[/b]: 18 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 110 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Marks's ears are pierced.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black skirt, a black knit shirt, a brown scarf tied around her waist, brown high-top shoes and a black leather necklace with silver spheres attached to it.

Details of Disappearance

Marks accompanied her mother to the San Joaquin County Mental Health Department in Stockton, California on October 18, 1988. Her mother was employed at the department. Marks then walked alone to the Department Of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Parks Street to get an identification card. She is known to have arrived at the DMV, because her card was mailed to her several days later. Marks called her mother at work after leaving the DMV. She was unable to reach her and left a message on the answering machine. During the message she did not sound as if anything was wrong. She has never been heard from again. Marks was supposed to meet a friend before she began work at 5:00 p.m., but did not keep the appointment. She did not take any personal belongings besides her purse when she went missing. She never retrieved her last paycheck from her place of employment, Rick's New York Style Pizza, where she was a waitress. Foul play is suspected in Marks's case. She had moved to California only a few months prior to her disappearance.

Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Stockton Police Department
209-937-8377

[Linda]

http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=33169

Gayle Marie Marks


Gayle was 18-years-old at the time of her disappearance

California Teen Vanishes

Friends and family of Gayle Marks are still searching for answers. Gayle disappeared more than 17 years ago and hasn't been seen or heard from since.


Gayle Marks seemed to have everything going for her. She was bright, beautiful and had just moved to California to be closer to her mother. But then, four months later, tragedy struck.

On October 18, 1988, Gayle left her mother's office at San Joaquin County Mental Health around 9:30 am to walk over to the Department of Motor Vehicles to pick up her California identification card. Then she was going to visit a friend before she was to start working at 5 p.m. Gayle never made it.

Cops know that Gayle made it to the Department of Motor Vehicles because her mother received her license in the mail days after her disappearance. Officials have few clues to go on and only know that Gayle disappeared sometime after she stopped at the DMV.


Sex Female
Race White
Age at Disappearance 18
Height    5'4''
Weight    110 lbs.
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair) Blonde

[Linda]

GAYLE MARKS

DOB: Nov 30, 1969
Missing:  Oct 18, 1988
Height:  5'4" (163 cm)
Eyes:  Blue
Race:  White
Age at time of disappearance: 18
Sex:  Female
Weight:  110 lbs (50 kg)
Hair:  Blonde
Missing From:
STOCKTON
CA
United States

Print a poster: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1042979&orgPrefix=NCMA&searchLang=en_US

Gayle was last seen on October 18, 1988. She was last seen wearing a long sleeved black shirt, black skirt, brown scarf, and brown shoes.

Stockton Police Department (California) 1-209-937-8203

[Kelly]

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[Jenn]

NamUs profile page for Gayle: https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/2791

[Jenn]

http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/GayleMarks/


"She walked from San Joaquin County Mental Health where I was working to the
Department of Motor Vehicles on Park Street we know she made it that far because
I got her drivers license in the mail, then she was going to visit a friend who lived
close by. Her friend was not at home, he had jury duty that day. She also worked as a
waitress at Rick's New York Style Pizza and was supposed to work that night at 5 PM.
She told me she would either take the bus or her friend would give her a ride there.
She never showed up. This is how we knew she was missing. Her work started calling
our home to see where whe was. My oldest daughter called me at work, and the panic
set in. I knew in my heart something was terribly wrong. I was numbed with fear but
managed to go home to see if I would find her on the way. When I got there, she had left
a message on the answering machine that said, "Hi, it's just me, I called." I went back
to my work to see if she had shown up there. The operator told me that my daughter
had called. So if I had stayed at work I wouldn't have missed her call, and I may have
my daughter with me today. She was going to receive a paycheck the next day and
never picked it up. She took nothing with her except what she was wearing
and what was in her purse.


Today is May 24, 2010 and my daughter is still gone from me. As I visit her site here and read the words I have written over and over again, I become horrified at the thought that she was killed (not confirmed) and what her last hours must have been like, how scared she must have been. My heart crumbles into a thousand pieces at the pain she suffered and I couldn't help her. Time does not heal all wounds. I often sit and imagine that none of this had ever happened and wonder how life would be if it hadn't happened. Gayle was a kind, sweet, beautiful young girl who had grown into womanhood and was on her way to making a life for herself. Someone snuffed it out before she had a chance. A mom knows ask any mom out there. My only peace is that their judgement day will come. Gayle did not deserve what happened to her.

Date of disappearance: OCTOBER 18, 1988
DOB: 11/30/1969
FROM STOCKTON, CA
5'4" AND 110 POUNDS
BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES
AGE AT DISAPPEARANCE: 18 YEARS
LAST SEEN AT STOCKTON, CA
DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

INFORMATION CALL: STOCKTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 209-937-8377 HELP ME PLEASE!

[LoriDavis]

‘Blood money' upsets relative
Missing girl's mom offended by deal to pay Shermantine for information

By Scott Smith
Record Staff Writer
February 18, 2012 12:00 AM

STOCKTON - Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine shouldn't be allowed to collect blood money for murders now being unearthed, says a woman whose daughter may have fallen prey to him and Loren Herzog.

Susan Kizer, 64, said she's offended by the $33,000 deal Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla made with Shermantine, 45, to tease out of him burial places in Calaveras and San Joaquin counties.

Searchers have so far found the remains of at least three victims, and in the end they may find more, including Kizer's daughter Gayle Marks, who vanished 24 years ago at the age of 18.

Despite that possibility, Kizer objects to seeing Shermantine profiting from her grief and others'.

Read more: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120218/A_NEWS/202180316

[Shannon]

http://www.news10.net/news/local/article/213064/2/Mom-frustrated-by-lack-of-help-from-sheriffs-office-in-search-for-daughter

Mom: Daughter was killed by 'Speed Freak Killers', but sheriff's office not cooperating

6:17 PM, Oct 11, 2012

Written by Tim Daly

STOCKTON, CA - The mother of a woman missing for nearly 25 years has information that makes her believe her daughter's was the victim of the "Speed Freak Killers," Wes Shermantine and Loren Herzog.
 
Sue Kizer believes the remains of her daughter Gayle Marks, who disappeared in 1988, were in a well near Linden. She was told by someone, who saw items removed from the well,  that there was a photo of a woman who resembled Marks.
 
Unfortunately for Kizer, she said the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office won't let her see the items for her to know for sure.
 
"If I could Identify my daughters purse, or anything that was there that was my daughter's, they'd have a case closed," Kizer said.
 
She said all efforts to communicate with detectives under Sheriff Steve Moore have been fruitless.
 
"If it was his child out there, they'd want to know," Kizer said.
 
On Wednesday, a report that was done by a doctor at the CSU Chico Human Remains Identification Lab in September was made public. The report said bones pulled from the well last winter, included remains of a child between the age of 5 and 14.

The family of Michaela Garecht is now paying closer attention since Shermantine has hinted from Death Row that Herzog was responsible for the girl's disappearance as well.

Assem. Cathleen Galgiani, D-Stockton, said the removal of remains near Linden should have been handled by the FBI, as opposed to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department. She too said the sheriff has been uncooperative as she tries to help victim's families learn what was in the well.
 
"There's a task force that I assembled, and they all have something in common," said Galgiani. "We can't get information from the sheriff."

[LoriDavis]

http://eastsouthstockton.news10.net/news/crime/110532-mother-missing-woman-believes-fbi-should-listen-speed-freak-killer-shermantine

Mother of missing woman believes FBI should listen to 'Speed Freak Killer' Shermantine

Submitted by News10 Web Staff
Thursday, February 7th, 2013, 6:59pm
By Tim Daly

STOCKTON, CA - The mother of a Stockton woman who's been missing for 25 years wants the FBI to reconsider its excavation work near Linden after "Speed Freak Killer" Wes Shermantine offered more information about the location of his victims.

The FBI has been excavating an abandoned well east of Stockton for more than a month. The agency said no remains have been found. The digging is happening in the same area where three murder victims were located about a year ago. 

Shermantine has said to private investigators, from death row, the FBI is about 200 yards away from where he directed them.

"I told them from the little bridge (where there's a ) guardrail and the culvert that runs underneath the road, from there back to the trees, is (where Loren) had a killing ground; spots where he'd bury people," said Shermantine in a recorded phone call to private investigator Rob Dick.

Sue Kizer can't help but wonder if Shermantine is connected to the disappearance of her daughter Gayle Marks.

"If Shermantine says they're in the wrong spot, then they're in the wrong spot. Everything Shermantine has told us has been the truth. Why all of a sudden is he not telling the truth? He has nothing to gain, nothing to lose," Kizer said.

The FBI has written in a press release since the digging started that "Shermantine's recollections have occasionally proved to be inaccurate."

In addition to the three sets of remains recovered from the Linden area, information from Shermantine also helped lead investigators to the bodies of Cyndi Vanderheiden and Chevelle Wheeler, who were buried in Calaveras County.