In Oregon, looking for a serial killer: 6 women have already died

Since February, police have found the remains of six women in and around Portland, Oregon. This raised fears that a serial killer was operating in the region. FoxNews.

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All remains were found within 120 km of Portland. Police say there is no reason yet to believe the cases are connected.

Police recovered the remains of Christine Smith on February 19, Joanna Speaks on April 8, Bridget Webster on April 30, Charity Perry on April 24, Ashley Real on May 7, and a sixth unidentified woman on April 24.

“Any premature death is a concern and we will thoroughly investigate deaths. So far, we have no reason to believe that these six cases are connected,” the police said in a statement.

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Perry's disappearance and death prompted her mother to bring attention to her case and to others.

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"I know she didn't make it to where she was found," Diana Allen said. “And the person or people who put it there tried very hard not to find it.”

Perry was homeless and last lived in a tent in Vancouver, Washington, about 14 km north of Portland. However, her remains were found in a culvert in Ainsworth State Park - 60 km to the east.

Kristin Smith, 22, went missing on December 22, 2022. Police found her remains in a forest in the Pleasant Valley area on February 19. The cause of her death and the manner of her death have not yet been established.

Ashley Real, 22, was last seen at a fast food restaurant in Portland on March 27. Police found her remains on May 7 in Eagle Creek, about 40 km southeast of Portland. Clackamas County authorities, who are also involved in the investigation, considered her death suspicious, but it was not officially recognized as a murder, Portland police said.

Multnomah County authorities declined to release toxicological findings and autopsy reports from both women, citing an ongoing investigation.

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Police said the death of a third unidentified woman found in Portland does not qualify as murder.

They are still working on her identification. Police described the woman as "possibly a Native American" or Alaska native with tattoos of a musical note on her chest and a seated Buddha on her right shoulder blade.

Joanna Speaks, 32, was found dead in an abandoned barn in Ridgefield, Washington on April 8, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Office. It's about 40 miles north of Portland.

“There are indications that the body was moved to this location,” the sheriff's office said in a statement. “This is being investigated as a homicide and no further details are being released at this time.”

The Clark County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the cause and manner of Speaks' death to be homicide resulting from blunt force trauma to the head and neck.

There are at least four more unidentified women in the 2022 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database: a woman in Lowell, Oregon in May, another in Salem, Oregon in November, and two more women in Woodland, Oregon Washington, in March and April.

One of them was hit by a train. Two were found on the side of rural roads, and the fourth was found in the Columbia River.

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“In police parlance, it takes two victims to make an episode,” said Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD sergeant and cold case investigator who now teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “So you look at it and see what they might have in common.”

He said the investigation was at an early stage and that the police, having access to more information than the public, would be able to determine the nature of the deaths.

“You have six sets of human remains and you just take them and explore, turn off all the noise, that is, the Internet, bloggers and everyone else who wants to turn this into something more than it can be,” he said.

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