WA MARCIA NORMAN: Missing from Tenino, WA - 1 April 2025 - Age 82 *Found Deceased*

82-year-old woman disappears from Thurston County 'under suspicious circumstances'

Authorities are searching for an elderly woman who went missing almost a week ago, according to the Thurston County Sheriff's Office.

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82-year-old woman disappears from Thurston County 'under suspicious circumstances'
An investigation is underway in Thurston County following the disappearance of an 82-year-old woman under what authorities describe as "suspicious circumstances."

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) reported that Marica Norman vanished near the city of Tenino, off Military Road Southeast. According to deputies, Norman was last heard from around 6:30 p.m. on April 1. She is described as being 5'5" and weighing approximately 150 pounds.

"It doesn't look like she went on vacation or left a note or anything," said Lt. Mike Brooks with the TCSO. "Things in the house are just like you walked out of your house today and did not return causes some concern for as well as some other information we don't want to share right now."

Missing 82-year-old woman had dinner with handyman before disappearing, authorities say

Marcia Norman's handyman, Jeffrey Zizz, is believed to be the last person to have seen her.

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Missing 82-year-old woman had dinner with handyman before disappearing, authorities say​

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) identified a man possibly connected to an elderly woman's disappearance from her Tenino home last week.

Marcia Norman, 82, was last seen April 1 at about 6:30 p.m. at her home off Military Road Southeast near Tenino, according to the TCSO. Norman is 5-foot-5 tall and weighs around 150 pounds.

Deputies found conditions in Norman's home that suggested she may have left abruptly, including that the dishes were stopped midway through. Investigators learned Norman had dinner April 1 with her handyman, Jeffrey Zizz, who is believed to be the last person to have seen her.

"We're still kind of in a wait-and-see mode," said Cindi Rauch, Norman's neighbor. "We just need to find her. We need to make sure she's OK."

Detectives said Zizz used a friend's car to leave the Tenino area Sunday, before he was arrested in Missoula, Montana, on an unrelated warrant. Officials are considering Zizz a person of interest in Norman's disappearance.


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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article303765921.html

Person of interest in disappearance of Tenino woman pleaded guilty to child molestation in 2022
A man in his late 40s has been identified as a person of interest in connection with the disappearance of a Tenino woman who hasn’t been seen since April 1, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.

The family of Marcia Norman, 82, reported April 4 that they had not seen her since the first of the month. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office began to investigate and deemed her disappearance suspicious after it appeared she had left her home abruptly.

“Household tasks such as (doing) the dishes appeared to have been left mid-process,” sheriff’s officials said in a news release.

As the Sheriff’s Office continued to investigate, they learned that Norman had had dinner with her 47-year-old handyman — Jeffrey K. Zizz — on April 1.

The Olympian usually does not identify people accused of crimes before they appear in court for the relevant matter. However, the Sheriff’s Office publicly identified and shared a headshot of Zizz in a Tuesday Facebook post.

As of Tuesday, Zizz had not been charged with a crime related to Norman’s disappearance.

Detectives have spoken with Zizz multiple times and he is believed to be the last person to see the missing woman. They also have seized items related to the case, but they say they do not have probable cause to arrest him.

Zizz, driving a friend’s vehicle, was arrested April 6 in Missoula, Montana, on an unrelated warrant, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Brooks said Zizz is still in custody in Montana. Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Lanese ordered a no bail bench warrant be issued for Zizz on Monday, according to court records.

Zizz was charged with sexual assault crimes involving children in November 2021, according to previous Olympian reporting.

He pleaded not guilty to nine specific crimes during his arraignment. However, in 2022, Zizz pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child molestation and one count of communication with a minor for immoral purposes.

In a written statement to the court, Zizz said he “engaged in sexual contact” with two victims who were between 12 and 14 years. Additionally, he admitted to communicating with a third minor between 2018 and 2021.

After he pleaded guilty, Judge Carol Murphy granted Zizz a suspended sentence of 75 months on the molestation counts and 29 months in prison for the communication count. The sentence was to be suspended for six years with conditions, according to court records.

In a signed memorandum to the court dated Monday, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Olivia Zhou alleged Zizz violated the conditions of his suspended sentence. As a result, Zhou asked the court to order a bench warrant.

Zhou said Zizz absconded from Washington State Department of Corrections‘ supervision on Monday. His Community Corrections Officer reportedly could not contact him that day after learning Zizz had left his home the night before.

That same day, DOC received a notification that Zizz’s truck was found in Idaho, indicating he left the county and the state without permission, according to court records.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Another judge who COULD have had this man in prison but nope, not even after molesting children.

Seems sadly pretty obvious what happened here if he is being called a POI.

So many judges do NOTHING to protect us, and nothing to protect the vulnerable like in this case, children and the elderly. So sick of hearing it.

So many murders are committed because they FAILED to put someone away and they remained free, etc.

Judge Carol Murphy, no idea who you are, but you FAILED.

 

[Kimster]

And people wonder why I’m really really picky about who works on my house…..

 

[Guess Who]

And people wonder why I’m really really picky about who works on my house…..

And why we find a way to do most everything that we possibly can ourselves. I don't like people I don't know on my property.

 

[GrandmaBear]

And people wonder why I’m really really picky about who works on my house…..

Boy do I have some stories about theft--both contractor theft and handyman theft--recent too! Not about murder thank God but naivete too by the ones using them. With relatives. I am debating sharing them...

But anyhow, it is pretty clear at least basically what likely happened here. An 82 year old woman taken advantage of.

 

[GrandmaBear]

i don't like anyone ringing my bell, knocking on my door, or maintenance coming in unless I am home. I value my time and my privacy. If I didn't invite you, you have NO reason to be coming to my house or calling me. I have ALWAYS been that way. I also don't like anyone on my property. Owning that one while not always able to be there about drove me nuts with the security cams.

My mom is this age range, almost exactly, she would trust like this, to a point. I'm not saying she wouldn't find and hire the person and know something about the person but she'd be alone there while someone was doing the work and there too and so on. It just makes me wonder more detail in this one though as my mom is in a neighborhood where her neighbors are quite close who do watch out some.

This man should have been IN PRISON though.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing 82-year-old woman's remains found under handyman's shed in Olympia, officials say

Investigators said Marcia Norman, 82, had dinner April 1 with her handyman, Jeffrey Zizz, who is believed to be the last person to have seen her.

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Missing 82-year-old woman's remains found under handyman's shed in Olympia, officials say​

More than a week after an 82-year-old woman disappeared from her Tenino home, authorities said her remains were found under a shed in Olympia.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) said Jeffrey Zizz, the primary person of interest in the case, built a shed April 2 at a property in Olympia, the day after Marcia Norman, 82, was reported missing.

In Olympia, investigators found human remains partially encased in concrete buried under the shed. The Thurston County Coroner's Office confirmed Thursday the remains belonged to Norman, who was reported missing April 1.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I will repeat he SHOULD have been in prison. I think people should start caring about this sh*t. The older generation can't yell forever any longer, the younger need to see it. Or leave it get worse and say nothing.

Jmo. Poor woman. May she RIP. This is sickening.

 

[GrandmaBear]

HOW many cases do we see where the perp should have been doing prison time before they hurt or KILL someone else or COULD NOT have if they were given a true sentence? WAY, way too many. Rap sheets a mile long. More.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Handyman charged in death of 82-year-old woman who was found partially encased in concrete

Her handyman was the last person to see her alive, officials said.

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Handyman charged in death of 82-year-old woman who was found partially encased in concrete​

An older woman’s handyman has been charged in connection to her death, according to investigators in Thurston County, Washington.

“This is one of the more disturbing cases we’ve come across,” Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders said.

Deputies would learn that 82-year-old Marcia Norman’s death was anything but dignified on April 9 as officials continued their search for the missing woman.

But Norman’s family says she was as dignified as they come.

Thurston County deputies say Jeffrey Zizz, a handyman she hired, was the last person to see Norman alive.

Investigators learned Zizz built a shed on a customer’s property, prompting investigators to execute a search warrant.

“Move the shed and do some excavation work, at which point in time, remains were located,” Sanders described.

Norman’s remains were found partially encased in concrete under the shed.


Detectives read up on Zizz’s history to learn he was a military veteran with five children.

In 2019, The Olympian reported Zizz became a pastor at a church in Lacey, but leaders there would soon fire him when they discovered that in October 2021, court records show he turned himself in to police and confessed to “sexual misconduct” in his home.

Zizz was arrested then on nine charges, including rape and molestation of his own daughters in August 2022.

Months later, a judge charged him with six of those crimes, and in October 2022, court records show he pleaded guilty to three of the charges, including molestation.

He was then sentenced to jail, but due to something in state law called the special sex offender sentencing alternative, Zizz was released after just 11 months on the promise he’d attend treatment.

“I don’t have anything nice to say, so I think my only comment right now, so that I don’t say something that’s going to get me in trouble, is that it’s almost like I’ve talked about this before,” Sanders said.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Judge orders no-bail hold for handyman accused of killing 82-year-old Tenino woman

A Thurston County judge denied bail for the handyman accused of killing 82-year-old Marcia Norman and burying her body in concrete under a shed.

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Judge orders no-bail hold for handyman accused of killing 82-year-old Tenino woman
A Thurston County judge denied bail for the handyman accused of killing 82-year-old Marcia Norman and burying her body in concrete under a shed.

Jeffrey Zizz, 47, appeared virtually from jail at a court hearing Monday afternoon where prosecutors asked for him to be held without bail for counts of murder, kidnapping, and unlawful disposal of human remains.

“The allegations before the court are shocking, both in their nature and that the alleged victim was an 82-year-old woman, a member of this community, who, the defendant, over a two year period befriended and knew lived alone,” Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Rosemary Fitzgerald told Judge Sue Wilson.

Wison agreed with the request from prosecutors and ordered a no-bail hold for Zizz.

“The allegations here are among the most serious and very troubling in terms of the prepared plan and the execution,” Wilson said.

An arrest report released Monday outlined new details about the investigation into Norman’s disappearance and death. According to investigators, Zizz worked as a handyman for Norman at her Tenino home for approximately two years.

Earlier this year, Norman told her family members about a disturbing encounter with Zizz when she awoke in the middle of night and found him standing at the foot of her bed.

“(Norman) state that she told Zizz that it was inappropriate for him to be there and he needed to leave,” an arrest report states. “(Norman) told her son that she spoke with Zizz and made it clear to him that they were to keep a professional relationship and he was was not to cross those boundaries again.”

The incident was not reported to law enforcement, according to the report.


Investigators, however, said they had records from FLOCK (automated license plate readers) cameras that showed Zizz’s truck was recorded in Olympia at 3:04 a.m. and again at 7:03 a.m., the report says.

“Zizz admitted that he had lied and said that he did return to (Norman’s) house twice that night after he had left following dinner,” court documents say. “He said he went there at about 12:00 a.m. to collect some tools from the shop for a job he had the next day. He said he went back home after this and maybe slept for a short period of time before he realized he needed his trailer for his job the next day as well.”

Investigators said they asked Zizz about the bedroom encounter that Norman had told her family about.

“Zizz admitted that this had happened, he stated that he went into (Norman’s) room and while she was sleeping, he rubbed her shoulder, wanting to speak with her,” the report says. “Zizz stated that (Norman) told him to leave. Zizz told detectives that he did have thoughts about (Norman) romantically.”

During the investigation, detectives got a warrant to search Zizz’s home.

“Detectives seized a five-page typed letter. The letter appeared to be a meticulously planned out burglary/sexual assault of an adult woman, identified as a ‘customer,'" court documents say.

On April 7, Zizz’s roommate told police that Zizz had borrowed his truck and had not returned home. The roommate reported the truck as stolen and told police he was concerned about Zizz harming himself. That same day, the Idaho State Police contacted the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office and reported that the missing truck was found in a very remote area between Kooskia, Idaho and Missoula Montana.

Troopers said the truck was damaged after a possible collision with an elk.

An arrest warrant was issued for Zizz for violating terms of his release for a prior sex offense conviction in Washington state.

Later that night, police in Montana arrested Zizz.



“During the autopsy, it was discovered that wrapped around (Norman’s) wrists and ankles were long black Velcro straps, as well as evidence that she had been bound prior to death,” according to court documents.

Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock said the case was the "worst he had ever seen' in his 25-year career." The autopsy determined Norman died from blunt force trauma and penetrating injuries to the head.

Warnock said the injuries to her head were from a nail gun and said injuries occurred to her over the course of hours. He described the case as "torture."

The Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office expects to file formal charges against Zizz by Wednesday afternoon.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The special sex offender sentencing alternative?? What in the HE77 is that?? He SA'ed his own daughters and because not in prison he then was able to also kill this woman. WTF is wrong with people and the system??

Whose kind of stupid idea was that?

We see so MANY cases where another person would not have been hurt or killed had a former offender just been sentenced APPROPRIATELY.

Torture. Nail gun. Over the course of hours. Being bound. Worst case ever in 25 years.

I am BESIDE myself.

I never will STOP pointing such out and more people NEED TO than let this stuff go on without a peep.

"Special" sex offender law getting 11 months was it for SAs of his own daughters, I can't even look back at it.

I hope there is a special place in he77 for not only offenders but the ones who give them these outs.