3rd, finding work on a fishing boat and moving into the downtown Bergman Hotel. On March 14, he was hanging out at a rural bar, having been fired from his job at the fishing boat, when he came across 39-year-old Jefferson "Jeff" Diffee, a miner who worked at the Greens Creek silver mine. The two struck up a conversation, and Diffee, feeling sorry for the newcomer who wasn't accustomed to the Alaskan wilderness, invited Fautenberry to his condominium. There, Fautenberry proceeded to beat and stab him 17–18 times, before stealing Diffee's wallet, automatic teller machine card and 9mm handgun. The following day, he withdrew $400 from Diffee's account, a move noted by authorities. In the meantime, co-workers had filed a missing persons report for Diffee, who hadn't gone to work in two days. Arrest, trial and imprisonment Three days after killing Diffee, Fautenberry, who had been under surveillance since his linkage to Joseph Daron's stolen car, was arrested at his hotel room in Juneau. Jeff's bank card was found in his hotel room as well. During the course of his interrogations, Fautenberry confessed a total of six murders, including the 1984 stabbing death of 25-year-old homeless man Richard F. Combs in Roseburg, Oregon. According to Fautenberry, the two met in a park and began drinking, and as John drank more, he got angrier at the fact that he had recently been fired from his job. In a fit of rage, he supposedly stabbed Combs in the throat and dumped his body on the freeway. However, another man was already serving a sentence for that crime: 28-year-old Michael T. Collier had confessed and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the Combs case, but had since recanted. The lead concerning Fautenberry was investigated, but in the end, it was abandoned. He was also briefly considered a suspect in the Dr. No murders due to his job as a long-haul trucker, and even questioned about the slaying of a fellow truck driver in New York, but was eventually cleared of suspicion. After a tape-recorded telephone interview with WKRC-TV, in which he confessed to four of his murders, Fautenberry attempted suicide by cutting his wrist with a razor, but was found in time and saved. During his imprisonment, Fautenberry was profiled as a serial killer according to the FBI's definition, with newspapers drawing comparisons to other murderers, such as Ted Bundy, Richard Biegenwald and the