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Not all serial killers will live to see punishment for their crimes.
On September 4, 1986, a serial killer died, and the legal system was unable to charge him for his crimes,
his intended victims made sure he didn't hurt them, or anyone else ever again.
So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
On September 3, 1986, Doug Wells was standing outside his Missoula Montana home,
speaking with a man named Wayne Nathan Mance. Doug knew Wayne. He worked for the furniture moving company that Doug,
along with his wife Chris, owned and operated. So when he asked to borrow a flashlight, Doug happily invited him inside the house,
so he could wait while he retrieved the item. Once inside Wayne lifted something above his head,
and smashed it across Doug's skull before grabbing both he and his wife Chris,
and tying them up in their own home. Unbeknownst to the wells, Wayne had been quietly obsessing over Chris,
and was determined to make her pay for some unknown perceived snub, but taking the life of the man that she loved the most.
What they also didn't know was that by the time he made this deadly decision, he had already taken the lives of as many as six victims.
Ready to enact his plan, Wayne stabbed Doug in the chest and left him in the basement to bleed to death,
while he took Chris upstairs to rape her. Doug unwilling to go down without a fight,
somehow managed to free himself and load a single bullet into the rifle that he had sitting on his workbench to repair.
Making his way upstairs, Doug found his wife in the midst of a full on assault.
A struggle ensued between the men and at some point, Doug fired that lone bullet and incapacitated Wayne Nance.
When he began to rise, Doug used the butt end of his rifle to beat the woodbee killer,
and as he crawled towards Chris, who by this point had managed to free all but one of her arms,
she began beating and kicking him in an effort to make sure he stayed down.
Wayne kept shooting, hitting Doug in the leg, and the wells kept fighting.
According to some sources, a lamp was knocked over and placed the whole room in complete darkness.
An explosion was heard, Doug lunched for the pistol he kept at his bedside table,
flipped on the overhead lights and leveled his barrel at his attacker.
There, lying on the floor, was Wayne Nance convulsing and twitching with a bullet wound that many say was self inflicted.
Emergency services were called and all three were rushed to the hospital.
Doug and Chris wells after bravely defending each other and their home,
managed to survive the brutal attack against them.
Wayne Nathan Nance did not, and he was declared dead on September 4, 1986.
Wayne Nance, who, as the world would soon find out, was the same man the newspapers were calling
the Mazula Mallorne. In searching his background for other crimes, investigators noticed some similarities between the wells as attempted murder
and the unsolved murder of Michael and Theresa shook.
In digging even further, this is what they learned.
Wayne Nathan Nance was born on October 18, 1955 in Mazula to a mother who worked as a waitress and a father who was a trucker.
Wayne was a bright young boy, but often found himself getting into some trouble.
He was also described as a quote, weirdo by his fellow classmates,
and once used a hot cohanger to brand himself with satanic symbols.
But despite this and his white hot temper, he sailed through school with ease,
and eventually he followed his father's footsteps and became a truck driver.
Now about 19 years old, Wayne's family lived several houses away from the pounds family,
which consisted of Donna, a part time worker at a local Christian bookstore,
Harvey, who worked at a men store, and their children, Kenny and Karen, who were 20, and Kathy, who was 12.
On April 11, 1974, while Donna was home alone, an unknown man correct into the house,
grabbed Harvey's 22 caliber looger, and walked up to the unsuspecting mother and wife.
He bound her in the spread eagle position with some clothesline.
The same material used to bind dug wells over a decade later, raped the terrified woman,
and then dragged her down to the basement, where he shot her five times in the back of the head.
When police arrived at the pounds's home, later that afternoon, a neighbor said they saw a man
who looked just like Wayne Nance, someone who regularly visited the pounds home,
walking near the scene prior to the murder.
The police questioned the teenager who denied any involvement, and said that he was sick in bed all day.
Despite finding a pair of bloodstained underwear in his home,
once it had been recently washed, there wasn't enough physical evidence to connect him to Donna's murder,
and the case went cold.
Freedom move on with his life, Wayne joined the US Navy and served from 1974 to 1977.
Investigators would later theorize that he may have claimed more victims while traveling with the military.
Then, in January of 1980, the body of 15 year old Devanna Nelson was found on a road bank just outside of Masula.
However, due to the decomposition of her body, an identification was not made until February of 1985.
Though Wayne Nance is considered a suspect in her murder, there are no definitive links.
Same can be said for Marcelo Sherry Bachmann, just 16 years old, who was found dead in December of 1984.
She was left in a shallow grave to be discovered by a hiker and had run away from her home in Vancouver, Washington,
after some conflict with family members.
She had been shot three times in her head and, like Devanna, was left unidentified until 2006.
Strands of hair similar to Marcelo's were found in Wayne's home, but she was seen alive and well with him prior to her death.
He claimed he had, quote, taken her in after finding her at a trucking area.
He said she left in September of 1984, which, according to the forensics, was around the time of her death.
When her brother went looking for her, he and a private investigator worried that she had become a victim of famed serial killer, Gary Ridgeway.
While their killer's name was wrong, their theory really wasn't too far off.
On September 9, 1985, the skeleton of an Asian woman nicknamed Christi Crystal Creek was found in Missoula with two 32 caliber bullets in her skull.
Her time of death was placed between 1983 and 1985, and she is yet to be identified.
Though he has not been linked to the murder, Wayne Mans remains the one and only suspect.
This brings us to the deaths of Michael and Teresa Schuch in Ravali County, Montana.
The pair on December 12, 1985 were bound and shot dead inside of their home.
The house in an effort to hide any evidence was burned down and the only survivors were the couples for children.
According to their testimony, the family had been sitting down to eat dinner when a loud knock came at the door.
Michael went to open it and when he did, an unknown man pushed his way inside and began stabbing him with a butcher knife.
He then grabbed Teresa and dragged her up to the bedroom where she was bound, raped, and stabbed to death,
which had he been successful in the well's home seemed like exactly what he had planned for them.
By this point in time, Wayne, who was 30 years old, and described as a pretty typical, well liked member of his community,
began his work at Conlon's furniture where he met Doug and Chris Wells.
While his connection seems tenuous in some cases and pretty strong in others, Wayne Mans cannot be held responsible for his actions.
He is one of the very few serial killers who saw his life ended by one of his intended victims.
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