12case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 12 solved cases in Oregon. A solved case is one the record closes with a conviction or an equivalent legal finding; each file names who was convicted only where a court did.
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.
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.
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 5 files. The oldest is Lynching of Robert S. Maynard, from 1852.
They are spread across 10 cities and towns; the most are in Springfield (2) and Portland (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (12), mass shooting cases (2) and school shooting cases (2).
6 files of the 12 have coverage attached: 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 4 creators. Truly Criminal, Kendall Rae and 48 Hours 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. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Students at memorial fence following shooting at Thurston HS in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998 — Credit: Ron OlsenCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Brooke Wilberger.jpg — Credit: http://www.findbrooke.comEditorial useSource
File:Mulugeta Seraw.jpg — Credit: GsamieCC BY-SA 4.0Source
These files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
12. 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
Truly Criminal (2 cases), Kendall Rae (2 cases) and 48 Hours (1 case), among 4 creators in all.
Springfield (2) and Portland (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.
