Jennifer Lynn Tchir was 15 when she left home in Gresham, Oregon, on July 3, 1987, and did not return. Witnesses placed her that day near the Mount Hood Community College area. In July 1988 a biology student found human bones in brushy fields on Gresham’s southeast side; Explorer Scouts recovered enough remains over the following week to form a nearly complete skeleton. The Multnomah County Medical Examiner identified the remains as Jennifer’s and ruled the cause of death as asphyxiation.

From the start detectives suspected the person who took Jennifer knew her world. On July 3 a young man was reported calling her by name at a convenience store; composite details described a late-teen to early-20s male with very dark short hair, heavy brows, wire-rim military-style glasses, a stud earring in the left ear, and a metallic-blue 1970s Dodge Charger. Investigators later examined possible links between Jennifer’s disappearance and other Gresham–MHCC area cases from that summer, notably in light of the arrest in 1999 of Todd Alan Reed for unrelated Portland strangulations.

Jennifer’s remains were recovered only a few miles from where other victims surfaced, reinforcing investigators’ view that the offender used familiar ground and routine to conceal violence. Can anyone who knew Jennifer, her routes that summer, or the people seen near MHCC in July 1987 help fill the gaps in this case?