Joyce Marie Scarbrough, 61, was found dead in her Hillsboro, Oregon home on February 4, 1993. Her death did not present an obvious crime scene and no autopsy was performed at the time; authorities initially classified the cause of death as undetermined.

Attention turned to her case after Cesar Francesco Barone, also known as Adolph James Rode Jr., was arrested later that month in connection with other killings and attacks on women in the Portland area. Scarbrough’s daughter Kathi asked investigators to exhume her mother’s remains; hopes for a forensic finding were high because no autopsy had been done originally. The exhumation, however, failed to produce evidence of violence or a toxic cause, and the Washington County medical examiner concluded in May 1993 that the cause of death remained inconclusive. Barone was regarded as a suspect and later convicted of multiple other murders, but he was never charged in Scarbrough’s death.

Did anyone who knew Joyce in Hillsboro around 1993 notice anything out of the ordinary in the months before her death?