On May 23, 1984, 10-year-old Luke Aaron Tredway disappeared while walking home from a friend’s house in Portland, Oregon. He was described as a Caucasian boy with blond hair and hazel eyes, last seen wearing a medium to dark blue down jacket with grey shoulders, blue jeans, a dark blue pull-over t-shirt with white and brown stripes, and white imitation leather running shoes with royal blue stripes. His mother, nine months pregnant at the time, reported him missing around 7:00 p.m.; an official search did not begin until 1:00 a.m. the next morning. Bloodhounds reportedly tracked his scent to an intersection but the trail went cold and the case grew cold for years.

In 1996 Douglas Franklin Wright, then at the Oregon State Penitentiary and scheduled for execution, sent a letter to The Oregonian confessing to abducting Luke, holding him 36 hours, and killing him by shooting him six times in the head. He directed investigators to a remote area near Mount Hood, close to the Wasco County line, where he said he buried Luke at dawn on May 25, 1984. A search of that location in 1996 found no remains. Authorities reclassified the case as a homicide and regard Wright’s confession as credible, but Luke’s body has not been recovered, leaving many questions unresolved.

Did anyone in the Portland area at the time remember seeing a boy matching Luke’s description or notice anything unusual on May 23, 1984?