EUGENE, OREGON: Three cold case murders tied to the same suspect via DNA technology

On June 5, 1986, at approximately 2:42 p.m., Eugene Police and Eugene Fire Medics responded to an apartment at 255 High Street for a report of a deceased person, identified as 62-year-old Gladys May Hensley, who was located during a welfare check by an apartment employee after she had not been seen for several days.

The investigation revealed it was a murder and that she was likely killed in the early hours of June 4, 1986.

In August 2000, additional DNA work requests resulted in Hensley's murder being connected to the June 19, 1986 murder of Janice Marie Dickinson, investigated by the Eugene Police Department, and the February 28, 1988 murder of Geraldine Spencer Toohey, investigated by the Oregon State Police.

Dickinson, a 33-year-old white female, was found murdered behind the car dealership at 20 Coburg Road in Eugene. She was naked and had been sexually assaulted, her death attributed to brutal homicidal violence, police said.

Toohey, a 73-year-old white female, was found in her residence in the 5400 block of Franklin Boulevard. Evidence of forced entry into the residence was discovered. Toohey had been sexually assaulted and her death was also attributed to brutal homicidal violence.

All three cases have lacked any strong leads. In 2016, a new technology came to market from Parabon Nano Labs, allowing the inference of physical characteristics of individuals based on DNA information. This service, Snapshot Phenotyping, was employed in this case and, in September 2017, Eugene Police investigators received the results.

DNA technology links trio of unsolved Eugene murders to same unidentified suspect

EUGENE, Ore. -- The Eugene Police Department says new technology is being used in a 1986 murder investigation - and that DNA has linked three cold case homicides to the same unknown suspect.On June 5, 1986, at approximately 2:42 p.m., Eugene Police and Eug

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Someone matching this information is a suspect in the murders of three women in the Eugene, Oregon area back in the 1980s! DO YOU KNOW HIM?

The Eugene Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit has established a dedicated tip line for these cases and is asking anyone with information about these murders to call the tip line at (541) 682.5162.

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[Kimster]

The article above came out in 2018, but we're still waiting to hear about an arrest. It's scary to me because it reminds me that these killers don't care about age, they just want power in this morbid twisted way!

Because these cases are old, I have to wonder if the perp died or moved to another part of the country? Regardless, godspeed to law enforcement so he is caught!

 

[Mel70]

The article above came out in 2018, but we're still waiting to hear about an arrest. It's scary to me because it reminds me that these killers don't care about age, they just want power in this morbid twisted way!

Because these cases are old, I have to wonder if the perp died or moved to another part of the country? Regardless, godspeed to law enforcement so he is caught!

If they do move they just continue somewhere else. Usually they are incarcerated or die.

 

[Mel70]

Now they have nationwide databases so it would pick up on anything anywhere else. With evidence. Apparently this guy isn't in there. But there is a huge backlog of evidence. Years.