John Harold Schiermeister, 38, of Roseburg, Oregon, was killed in Portland on October 5, 1987. He spent time drinking with Andrew David Edwards at a Burlington Northern railroad yard that day; Edwards became enraged and struck Schiermeister in the head with enough force to cause fatal injuries. Schiermeister’s body was found by railroad workers the next day in the yard, and his identity was established by October 8. Investigators initially had no publicly identified suspect and the case remained unsolved for years.

A break came after Edwards later confessed to multiple killings. In January 1993 he admitted to killing five men, not knowing one survived; his statements linked him to Schiermeister’s death and another Portland killing. Edwards was returned to Oregon, charged in the Schiermeister and Anthony Keith Thurman cases, and ultimately convicted of two counts of murder, receiving a life sentence. Does anyone have memories of Schiermeister or information about his movements in Portland in October 1987?