Leroy McGahuey

As of September 2022, Bollinger's murder remains unsolved, but McGahuey is presumably still considered the prime suspect in that case.

While McGahuey appealed his sentence to the state courts, detectives from Washington continued to investigate him as a suspect in the Bollinger case. His plea was eventually rejected by the Oregon Supreme Court, and he was scheduled to receive an execution date in July 1962. At said hearing, his execution date was set for August 20, with his sole chance of escaping death being a recommendation for clemency from Governor Mark Hatfield. Hatfield refused to issue a stay of execution or commute his sentence, upholding the convictions of the lower courts.

On August 20, 1962, McGahuey was executed in the state's gas chamber at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. He appeared calm on the day of his death, and his last reported words were "That's it.", addressed to a deputy warden. At the time, it was the first execution conducted in the state in ten years. Following Furman v. Georgia, McGahuey would become the last inmate to be executed in Oregon's gas chamber and the last inmate executed in the state until 1996.

While residing there, he began a romantic relationship with 32-year-old Loris Mae Holt, who lived separately from her estranged husband together with her 2-year-old son, Rod Cameron, at an apartment in Central Point. McGahuey eventually moved in to live in with them, but his relationship with Holt eventually started to degrade due to his violent outbursts. On February 13, 1961, during a heated argument, McGahuey proceeded to hit her on the head with a hammer, before proceeding to strangle, stab her twice in the chest with a knife and then ultimately shoot her in the head with a pistol. Reportedly unwilling to let the young boy grow up without a mother, he went to Tod's room and hit him once on the head with the hammer, killing him instantly.

On January 23, 1960, while working as a logger in Mineral, McGahuey was arrested for sexually abusing an underage girl and held on $5,000 bail at the Lewis County Jail. On March 14, he was convicted of the charge and sentenced to a year of imprisonment, with half the sentence being a suspended one with the requirements that he regularly report to a probation officer. McGahuey did not comply with these terms and instead fled to Medford, Oregon, where he continued to work as a logger.

On July 6, 1957, 31-year-old Eleanor Bollinger, a Sunday school teacher residing in Mineral, Washington, went berry picking near her father's farmhouse but failed to return. On July 21, her body was found in some woodland, showing signs that she had been repeatedly stabbed and beaten. Investigators determined that she had likely been murdered in another location and then transported here, but with no useful information or viable suspects, the case quickly went cold.

Leroy Sanford McGahuey (October 18, 1920 – August 20, 1962) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who was convicted and later executed for a double murder committed in Oregon in 1961, and was considered a prime suspect in a 1957 murder in Washington State. He was the final convict to be executed in Oregon prior to Furman v. Georgia, as well as the last to be executed in the state's gas chamber.