US EditionDecades-old death in Oregon potentially linked to notorious California serial killer
- Oregon police identified a man found dead near Interstate 5 in 1980 as 30-year-old Larry Eugene Parks on a recent Friday.
- Authorities linked the 1980 killing to Randy Kraft, a convicted California serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, who is the sole person of interest.
- Kraft, who was sentenced to death in 1989 for murdering 16 men over a ten-year period and is now 80 years old, was apprehended in 1983 with a strangled Marine in his car and found to have a coded document in his trunk that authorities suspect references as many as 67 victims.
- In 2024, forensic genetic genealogy helped confirm Parks' identity after an investigator assisted by comparing DNA from possible family members.
- The identification advances cold case investigations linked to Kraft and implies ongoing efforts to confirm additional victims across multiple states.
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Cold Case Unit Identifies Victim From 1980 Murder - Rogue River Press
Photos courtesy of OSP. Courtesy of Oregon State Police Almost 45 years ago, in the early morning hours of July 18, 1980, Oregon State Police responded to a report of a deceased, unidentified male along Interstate 5 near Woodburn. A homicide investigation was opened and while extensive efforts were made to identify the victim, he remained a John Doe until April 2025. In cooperation with the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office and the Orange C…
Partial human skull identified as California woman reported missing in 1987
Partial skeletal remains recovered in 1993 have been positively identified through DNA analysis as that of a Northern California woman reported missing in 1987, officials announced last week. Kay Josephine Medin, 48, was reported missing in Aug. 1987 by her husband Nikolas Medin, according to a news release from officials in Humbolt County. Her husband reportedly told investigators that he’d left on a business trip and when he returned, his wi…
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