A Married Woman, Alone in Eureka, Last Seen with a Logger, Turns Up Dead in a Ravine —An Unsettling 69-Year-Old Humboldt County Cold Case - MendoFever

A Married Woman, Alone in Eureka, Last Seen with a Logger, Turns Up Dead in a Ravine —An Unsettling 69-Year-Old Humboldt County Cold Case

It has been 64 years since Vera Weitzel, the wife of a Navy man, left her boarding house in Eureka and disappeared. Several months later she was found bludgeoned to death at the bottom of a ravine east of Blue Lake. Despite law enforcement’s identification of multiple suspects, Weitzel’s murderer was never brought to justice.