Michael Sean O’Fallon was 17 and freshly graduated when his hitchhiking trip ended in murder. He had been traveling through Canada and into the Pacific Northwest, sending a postcard home in early July 1980. On July 17, 1980, his nude body was found along an Interstate 5 entrance ramp about ten miles south of Salem in Marion County, Oregon. He had been hogtied with his own shoelaces, sexually mutilated, and strangled; toxicology showed alcohol and Valium in his system.

A nearby killing the following day heightened alarm in the area. In May 1983 Randy Steven Kraft was arrested in California; among materials seized investigators found a coded list containing the entry Portland Denver. A camera recovered from Kraft’s garage was identified by Michael’s family as belonging to him, bearing his mother’s initials MJO and a distinctive decal, and its film contained photos from Canada that matched Michael’s trip. Kraft was later convicted of multiple murders in California, but Michael’s killing in Oregon was never prosecuted and remains an open case with the Oregon State Police.

Did anyone in the Portland–Salem area know Michael or see him during that July 1980 trip?