Cold Case Unit Cases

Marjorie Finley: Finley, 42, was working as a clerk at a Plaid Pantry store at 14110 N.E. Sandy Blvd. on Oct. 22, 1973, when she was shot to death about 10:30 a.m. during an apparent robbery.
Harold E. Tyson: Hikers found Tyson’s badly decomposed body on March 29, 1975, in a remote area north of U.S. 30 near Rocky Point Road. Tyson, 37, had been living in the Kenton Hotel in downtown Portland.
Alison Cauffman: Cauffman, 14, of Southwest Portland was found dead June 21, 1973, down a bank on the north side of Marine Drive opposite Interlachen Lane. Cauffman was known to hang out with transients in the Washington Park area.
Charlene Baurer: She was reported missing June 21, 1976, and her badly decomposed body was discovered Sept. 26, 1976, near Northeast 82nd Avenue and Lombard Street.
Unidentified man: On Sept. 9, 1979, hikers discovered the skeleton remains of a man about four miles east of Multnomah Falls Lodge. The state medical examiner could not determine the cause of death and subsequent investigative efforts have been directed towards identification. In 2008, the Smithsonian Institution completed an examination of the skeleton. No evidence yet uncovered rules out the possibility of homicide, so the case remains open.
Richard K. Hamblin: On Oct. 12, 1981, two men broke into Hamblin's home and got in a fight with the victim, who was stabbed and died. One suspect was described as 5-foot-11, 190 pounds, 26-31 years old, with black hair. The second was described as 5-foot-9, 180 pounds, 25-27 years old with light brown hair.
George W. Storms: Storms, 54, of Southeast Portland was found Oct. 16, 1981, in the trunk of a car that had been towed to a storage yard on Sept. 13, 1981, from Southeast 139th Street. He had been shot. The car was registered to someone using an alias.
Robert E. Jones: Jones, 26, was found dead of a stab wound Jan. 15, 1983, in a phone booth near the Husky Truck Stop in Troutdale. He had been living with a girlfriend under a nearby overpass.
James M. Anderson: Anderson, 44, and Erasmo Garcia got into an argument about 5 a.m. June 12, 1983, outside of his apartment on Northeast Killingsworth Street in Portland. Anderson was shot once in the head. Garcia was arrested later in Colorado, but a Multnomah County grand jury dropped charges against Garcia pending additional evidence or information.
Larry B. Erickson: Erickson, 42, was found dead in his home in the 8000 block of Northeast Wygant in Portland on Oct. 2, 1983. He had been shot. No apparent motive was ever discovered.
Wendy M. Wilcox: Wilcox, 24, of Portland was reported missing June 14, 1984, from the Winchell's Donut store on Northeast 102nd Avenue and Glisan Street, where she worked. On Oct. 14, 1984, hunters near the community of Packwood in Lewis County, Wash., discovered her remains.
Unidentified man: The skeletal remains of a still unidentified man were found Nov. 6, 1984, on Northwest Rocky Point Road, about three-tenths of a mile west of U.S. 30. The man had been dead for at least six months. The probable cause of death was a gunshot wound.
Gerald Rathman: Rathman, 31, of Troutdale disappeared Nov. 2, 1984, from a party at a home on Northeast Glisan Street and his vehicle found several days later in Troutdale. His body was found Dec. 12, 1984, on Gordon Creek Road near the Sandy River. Although there was a person of interest in this case, no arrest was ever made.
Robert J. Perea: Perea, 32, who witnesses said worked as a drug dealer, was found Dec. 21, 1984, shot to death execution style at his home on Southeast 165th Avenue.
Barbara M. Bolton: Bolton, 34, was a walk-away from the Dammasch State Mental Hospital in Wilsonville whose remains were found Dec. 2, 1988, just north of Marine Drive about three-quarters of a mile west of the Troutdale Airport. She was last seen alive on or around Oct. 10, 1988. The cause of death is undetermined, but homicide is strongly suspected.
Barbara J. Stanley: Stanley, 38, was shot once in the chest at 9 p.m. March 22, 1989, in her home on Southeast Stevens Avenue. Her husband told detectives she shot herself, but later information indicated there may have been a struggle over the gun, which had discharged twice.
Charles V. Moore: A headless body was discovered July 15, 1989, in the Columbia River downstream from Corbett Landing. The body was identified Nov. 30, 1989, as Charles V. Moore, 30, of Portland.
Gloria Lima, Amanda Lima and Otto Alvarado: At 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 15, 1989, Alvaro Alvarado, a native of Guatemala, entered an apartment on Southeast Holgate Avenue where his estranged common-law wife, Gloria Lima, 26, had moved. He began arguing with her. A witness said Alvarado first shot Gloria Lima, then Amanda Lima, 24, and then his cousin, Otto Alvarado, 25. A fourth person was able to get out of the apartment while being shot at. Alvarado fled and has never been apprehended.
Tony Alvarez: Alvarez, 35, a long-haul trucker from Texas, was found shot to death in the cab of his Peterbilt tractor in Troutdale, on Jan. 30, 1990. He was enroute to Olympia, Wash.
Unidentified man: The body of a man, 35-40 years old, was found April 29, 1992, in the Columbia River downstream from its confluence with the Willamette River. He had been shot. The man wore blue jeans, a long sleeved shirt, long underwear, a dark blue ski mask and black leather gloves. The man had three loaded clips of ammunition in his pockets. Fingerprints sent to the Oregon State Police and FBI were unable to help identify the man.
Sharon F. Schlosser: On Oct. 28,1992, the body of Schlosser, 49, of Clackamas, was found in the Columbia River, across from Kelly Point on the Washington side of the river. Her arms were bound with rope and she had died of head injuries. Her husband, Charles, had reported her missing Oct. 21, 1992, having last seen her the day before. Detectives reopened the case in 1998 and 1999 and information taken to a grand jury. No one has ever been charged in a criminal case, although the family initiated civil proceedings in federal court.
Bonifacio Rodriguez: Rodriguez’s body was found on the edge of a field on Gillihan Loop Road on Sauvie Island on Oct. 2, 1994. He had been shot. Rodriguez, 31, of Portland, was last seen Sept. 25, 1994, and had been reported missing to the Portland Police Bureau.
Unidentified man: Skeletal remains were found May 15, 1996, scattered in a field north of the Troutdale Airport near Graham Road. The remains appeared to be of a white male in his mid- to late-40s, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-7 inches tall. Extensive dental work, including a gold crown on one molar, was intact. Among the clothing near the body was a T-shirt with the name “Walla Walla College.” The man had suffered a double fracture of his left forearm and both bones showed signs of reconstructive surgery with metal plates and screws. The remains appear to have been in the field for one year. The man remains unidentified and the case remains open.
Thomea Kampras: Kampras, 51, was found dead on a couch in her home on Southwest Riverdale Road on March 3, 1998. A handgun was at her side and she had been shot in the head. She was scheduled to sign divorce papers that day. The state medical examiner could not rule the death as a suicide or homicide, but it was agreed the death was not accidental.
Marcos Antonio Lopez: On March 24, 1998, Lopez, 30, of Troutdale, was found dead and his body engulfed in flames on East Woodard Road near Northeast Seidl Road near Springdale. Investigators determined that Lopez had been in an argument with five other men at a restaurant on March 19, 1998. On March 23, 1998, he was seen leaving a tavern about the same time as two of the men from the March 19 argument. One of the men was arrested for being an ex-convict in possession of a firearm, but no homicide charges were filed.