Defrosting Cold Cases

Portland Police (OR) are looking for Johnny Lawrence, a 90-year-old black man, who is about 5-foot-7. Lawrence is suspected of killing Mary Frances Reid (22) on April 8, 1963. Whether Lawrence is still alive or, when he died, is unknown. There are no details about the connection or relationship between Reid and Lawrence. There is no photograph [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Evidence, Identification, Investigations Division, Oregon, Police, Prisons, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

Detectives say there is probable cause to arrest Kyron Horman’s stepmother for the murder-for-hire plot of her husband, Kaine Horman, and possibly for the 7-year-old’s disappearance, according to a former sheriff’s official. “The detectives are telling them they have probable cause to arrest Terri Horman right now at least for murder for hire and possibly [...]

Tags: Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Oregon, Police, Portland, Victim

Brad Ballantyne, accused in the death of Kimberly Dunkin on New Year’s Day in 1993, will face a judge for the first time. Ballantyne was arrested in Vancouver, Wash. in mid-June in connection to the death of Kimberly Dunkin.  Dunkin was found shot to death in her car in the 4900 block NE Skidmore St. in Portland on Jan. [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Drugs, Evidence, Forensics, Gun Fire, Investigations Division, Kimberly Dunkin, Oregon, Police, Portland, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

The latest development in the case of the missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman, is that authorities will be looking closely to the stepmother Terri Horman. She previously stated that she saw Kyron last after she dropped him off at Skyline Elementary School and saw him walking down the hallway towards his classroom. However, cell phone records [...]

Tags: Identification, Investigations Division, Kyron Horman, Missing Person, Oregon, Police, Polygraph, Victim

Kyron Horman vanished June 4. His stepmother, Terri Horman, said she last saw him walking down a hallway toward class at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, police said. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (Oregon) has asked anyone who was at Skyline Elementary on the day Kyron disappeared if he or she recalled seeing his stepmother [...]

Tags: Kyron Horman, Missing Person, Oregon, Police

PORTLAND, Ore. – Brad Ballantyne (35) was arrested in Vancouver and charged in the 1993 death of Kimberly Dunkin. Ballantyne is accused of shooting then 30-year-old Kimberly Dunkin in Northeast Portland on New Year’s Day 1993. She lived in Aloha at the time. Ballantyne faces charges of one count of aggravated murder and one count of murder. [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Gun Fire, Identification, Investigations Division, Kimberly Dunkin, Oregon, Police, Portland, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

A man who strangled to death a North Portland woman 23 years ago was sentenced to two decades in prison, after Portland’s Cold Case Unit dug into the case and matched his DNA to the crime scene.   James Samuel Owens, 67, pleaded no contest last month to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 42-year-old Nancy [...]

Tags: Autopsy, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Nancy Eileen Converse, Oregon, Police, Portland, Rape kits, Strangulation, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses

Portland, Oregon: A Salem woman has been charged with murder in the death of her newborn baby, whose body was found 20 years ago. Stacey Olivia Quintero, 36, is accused of strangling her baby to death and leaving the child’s body at Gilmore Field City Park in Salem. The baby’s body was discovered May 9, [...]

Tags: Jane Doe, Oregon