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Investigators believe Elkins either went to
Marroquín's apartment or lured her to the factory, ultimately killing her. He then took her body to the house in Jericho, possibly with the intention of dumping her in the ocean from his boat, but after filling the barrel with plastic
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Marroquín hadn't been heard from since. A woman fitting Marroquín's description reportedly appeared with a toddler at Melrose Plastics and employees joked that the child's father was, in fact, Elkins.
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with Elkins but divulged that she had become afraid of him after telling his wife, Ruth, about the affair. Andrade went to
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Detectives who interviewed Elkins found him uncooperative. They informed him that they intended to obtain his DNA for comparison with that of the
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company partly owned by Howard B. Elkins, who was the former homeowner of the
Jericho house. Elkins sold Melrose Plastics in 1972 and moved to
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female in her late 20s, between 145 and 152cm (4'9"- 5'0") tall, with unusual dental work. The cause of death was determined to be
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written on the first page belonged to Reyna Angélica
Marroquín, a 27-year-old immigrant from El Salvador who had worked as a
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The drum had been made in 1965 for transporting dye. Markings showed it had been shipped to
Melrose Plastics, a
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television series. This case was used as the plot of an episode of
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light, some of the deteriorated address book was legible. A
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Season 17 Episode 4. The murder was dramatized on the
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