Duane Samples

[Brenton]

I am interested in any information on Duane Samples, a man who in 1975
attacked two women in their sleep killing one and severely wounding
another.

'Samples's crime had taken place one night in the small town of
Silverton, Oregon, USA, December 9, 1975. Fran Steffens, her
eighteen-month-old daughter, and her friend Diane Ross were in Fran's
apartment, and a casual acquaintance, Duane Samples, came over for some
beer, marijuana, and conversation. Samples was a counselor in a loca
drug clinic, a Vietnam vet in his early thirties who had knocked around
quite a bit and had had fleeting relationships with several womenin the
area. He was interested in Fran, but his interest was not really
reciprocated, though Fran did not send him away. As the evening wore on,
the women became tired. Fran went to bed alongside her daughter, and
Diane sat on the couch, listening to Samples. He was boring her stiff
with his stories of Vietnam, and she finally told him that she was tired
and that he ought to leave.

Samples left. Diane drifted off to sleep on the couch, then woke up to a
strange, warm, sticky feeling - and discovered she had been cut
severely: on the throat, across her body under her breasts, and from the
navel upward. Two feet of her intestines were hanging out. It wasn't
even the cuts that had awakened her; it was Fran's screams as she was
being dragged into the bedroom by a knife-wielding Samples. Diane
somehow held her arms around her torso and ran out the door.....'(Robert
Ressler).

Diane Ross survived, so did Fran's daughter, but Fran didn't make it.

Duane Samples was arrested and sent to jail.

Many people who were involved in the case believed this wasn't the first
time Samples had killed, and that it was probable he was a serial
killer, though no evidence of this was ever uncovered.

Samples was released from jail in 1991, and is I assume a free man.

If anyone has any information about this I would be interested to know.
FBI agent Robert Ressler (now retired) thought it probable Samples would
kill again if released.

[ciskav...@gmail.com]

Hi Brenton,

Was just wondering if you found out his whereabouts? I am also interested in this case.

Ciska Verster

[1wind...@gmail.com]

I shared a cell with Duane in Marion County Jail.
He was in the top bunk.
It was the winter I turned 20 so, it would have been Dec-Jan of '75/'76 . . .

[lindas...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, March 13, 1997 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Brenton wrote:
> I am interested in any information on Duane Samples, a man who in 1975
> attacked two women in their sleep killing one and severely wounding
> another.

> Hi Brenton. i have a comment to make. I feel as the FBI officer feels that once released he would kill again. my uncle of which i can prove was one of the officers who was called to the scene of the crime as it happened. he said it was worse than any scene he had seen in VietNam. Anne Rule book #9 has the story in it. it is called Kill me or I will Kill you....

[vlee...@gmail.com]

Any update or info on this man?

[vlee...@gmail.com]

I would love to be able to speak to you linda s. Im a family member of the victim and have been researching the case for some time.

[jetb...@yahoo.com]

Im a friend of were diane ross went to for help just down the road,they also new the victim

[vlee...@gmail.com]

Please tell me any info you have

[marilyn...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, March 13, 1997 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-7, Brenton wrote:
> I am interested in any information on Duane Samples, a man who in 1975
> attacked two women in their sleep killing one and severely wounding
> another.
>

[marilyn...@gmail.com]

Duane went to southern California when he was paroled. He worked for the Veterans organization and retired from there a couple of years ago. Still living in Whitier...

[scott...@gmail.com]

It's incredible that he apparently hasn't killed again since being released in 1991. Robert Ressler and John Douglas in their classic "Whoever Fights Monsters" and "Mindhunter" respectively will tell you that sexual sadist serial killers cannot be rehabilitated. At least ten other such monsters were paroled under the misguided belief that there's such a thing as rehabilitation for serial killers--and they all killed again almost immediately. One of them was the appalling and notorious excuse for subhuman filth named Jerome Brudos. Perhaps Samples has killed and not got caught, or perhaps he's just getting old. But 1991 was a long time ago.

[michen...@gmail.com]

Hey @1wind...gmail - Did you SERIOUSLY share a cell with Duane Samples? I hope you’re being truthful and not saying this just for attention. If true, that’s crazy man! Hit me up, I’d like to talk about it.

[jayb...@gmail.com]

I knew Duane before he killed. He was my scary teacher. He danced with my mother. He wrote me from jail for help preparing his ptsd defense. Fran was a wonderful young woman.

[tea5...@gmail.com]

Fran was family

[fransv...@gmail.com]

I am a family member. my father was her aunt and identified her after her death. This man is alive and well living his best life.

[Raeanna Worthing]

[camila]

On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 18:17:37 UTC-2, marilyn...@gmail.com wrote:
> Duane went to southern California when he was paroled. He worked for the Veterans organization and retired from there a couple of years ago. Still living in Whitier...

Any updates on this? And can this information be verified? I tried looking for news articles, but nothing recent came up
After such a brutal crime like the attack on Diane and Fran's murder, I find it hard to believe he was rehabilitated. I've just finished "Whoever Fights Monsters" and got curious on Samples' status.
I hope that neither Fran's daughter, Diane or either of their families live anywhere near Whitier, I can't fathom how awful it would be to live near someone who took a life in a grotesque and violent way

[matt enos]

On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 6:48:15 PM UTC-8, vlee...@gmail.com wrote:
> Please tell me any info you have

Well i was told that dwayne wanted fran to cut his balls off, he was a sick an disturbed man, when fran said no he stabbed her, then diane ross was stabbed an ran to my neighbor house that was diane ross family friend, said she got her guts caught on the headges outside the house , he stuffed em back in