SOLVEDListenAlsea, Oregon · 2017
Anna Repkina was killed near Alsea, Oregon, on April 16, 2017; William Hargrove was convicted, won reversal of his first murder judgment, and was convicted again at a 2025 retrial.
SOLVEDListenOregon Culinary Institute, Portland, Oregon · 2018
Chef and culinary instructor Daniel Brophy was fatally shot at the Oregon Culinary Institute in June 2018; his wife, novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2022.
Pacific Northwest, United States (multiple related incidents across the U.S. and abroad) · 1970s
Following the unsolved November 1971 D. B. Cooper hijacking, more than a dozen copycat hijackers across the United States (and several abroad) attempted similar extortion-and-parachute schemes through 1972, prompting aviation security reforms including the "Cooper vane" and widespread metal detectors.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenTigard, Oregon, United States · 1926
Marvin Clark, an elderly Tigard, Oregon man, vanished on October 30, 1926 while traveling to meet his daughter in Portland, and has never been definitively found, making his case the oldest active missing person case in the United States.
Credit: GsamieCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenSoutheast 31st Avenue, Portland, Oregon · 1988
Mulugeta Seraw, a 28-year-old Ethiopian student, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by three white supremacists in Portland, Oregon, on November 12–13, 1988. The killers were convicted, and a subsequent civil suit held White Aryan Resistance and its leaders liable for $12.5 million.
SOLVEDListenMedford, Oregon, United States · 1995
Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill, a longtime lesbian couple and LGBTQ activists in Medford, Oregon, were bound, gagged, and shot to death on December 4, 1995. Robert Acremant, who had posed as a prospective apartment renter to meet Ellis, confessed to the killings and was sentenced to death before his sentence was later reduced to life without parole.
SOLVEDListenJacksonville, Oregon (then Rogue River area, Oregon Territory) · 1852
In May 1852, Robert S. Maynard, a 21-year-old gambler from Illinois, shot and killed J. C. Platt in the Rogue River mining area of what would become Jacksonville, Oregon, after a verbal insult; miners then extrajudicially hanged Maynard in what is recorded as the first lynching in Southern Oregon.
SOLVEDListenSalem, Oregon, United States · 1992
On September 26, 1992, Hattie Mae Cohens and Brian Mock were killed when four skinheads firebombed their basement apartment in Salem, Oregon, in an attack widely viewed by the local LGBTQ community as motivated by homophobia and racism amid the campaign for Oregon's anti-gay Ballot Measure 9.
The files run from 1852 to 2018. The 2010s hold the most, with 6 files. The oldest is Lynching of Robert S. Maynard, from 1852.
They are spread across 14 cities and towns; the most are in Portland (4) and Springfield (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (14), kidnapping and abduction cases (4) and disappearance cases (3).
8 files of the 18 have coverage attached: 10 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 6 creators. Kendall Rae, That Chapter and Truly Criminal have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Kyron Horman — Credit: Originally posted at Terri Horman's Facebook page, the picture has appeared on numerous…Editorial useSource
Students at memorial fence following shooting at Thurston HS in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998 — Credit: Ron OlsenCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Nathan Harvey — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Northwest Orient Boeing 727 (N467US) — the aircraft hijacked in the D.B. Cooper case — Credit: Clint Groves (Clinton H. Groves collection), via Wikimedia CommonsGFDL 1.2Source
Marvin A. Clark — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
File:Brooke Wilberger.jpg — Credit: http://www.findbrooke.comEditorial useSource
File:Mulugeta Seraw.jpg — Credit: GsamieCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Alonzo Tucker Historical Marker — Credit: Oregon Remembrance ProjectCC BY-SA 4.0Source
18. By status: 5 unsolved, 1 cold and 12 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lynching of Robert S. Maynard, from 1852. Open the file
Murder of Anna Repkina, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (3 cases), That Chapter (2 cases) and Truly Criminal (2 cases), among 6 creators in all.
Portland (4) and Springfield (2).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
