Background
On the night of Friday, September 9, 1977, Quigley, a student at Santa Clara High School, attended a back to school beer party at a house near the corner of Monroe and Market Streets in Santa Clara. An acquaintance had given her a ride to the party on the back of his motorcycle and had promised to offer her a ride home. He left the party and did not return until after Quigley had left. Witnesses last saw Quigley leaving the party around 11:45 PM alone and on foot, headed toward the house of a friend who lived nearby.
In the early daylight hours of September 10, a groundskeeper noticed at a distance an object up against a fence that separated some apartments from a Santa Clara High School athletic field. The object was more or less 100 yards from the path that Quigley likely would have taken through War Memorial Park. It wasn't until around noon of the same day that the groundskeeper investigated further and discovered that the "object" was the body of Mary Quigley.
Quigley's body was unclothed. Her panties were found inside out dangling from one ankle. Her pants were about 30 feet away. Debris on the body strongly suggested that she had been stripped in the area where the pants were found. She had been dragged to the fence and hanged by the neck on the fence with an item of her upper clothing, where she suffocated.
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