Murder of Mary Quigley
Murder victim
Died when: 17 years 194 days (210 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Mary Elizabeth Quigley (February 28, 1960 – September 10, 1977) was an American murder victim whose death was a cold case for nearly 30 years before it was finally solved.
Mary was a senior at Santa Clara High School in California.She had attended a beer party and left late in the evening of Friday, September 9, 1977.
Her body was found the next day approximately 300 yards away, hanging from a chain-link fence in Washington Park (now War Memorial Park) in Santa Clara.
Coroner's evidence indicated that she had been raped and strangled.Prosecutors were eventually able to use DNA profiling to identify her killer, Richard Archibeque, because of California's Proposition 69 which allowed the state to collect Archibeque's DNA for inclusion in its DNA Database as a result of his conviction two years later for the rape of another teenage girl.
