Just after dawn on January 1, 1993, a fire tore through an apartment building at 310 East 17th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. Aden J.D. Wood, a 20-year-old man living in unit 7, was found dead there; investigators determined he died from inhaling the products of combustion. Fire and police investigators later concluded the blaze had been set deliberately, but they could not identify a motive or any suspect.

There were no witnesses who could name a perpetrator, no confession, and no arrests. The victim was buried at Sunset Hills Cemetery in Eugene, where a marker records the dates of his life. The case remains a cold arson homicide with the key questions of who set the fire and why unanswered.

If anyone knew Aden, lived at 310 East 17th Avenue at the time, or has information about that New Year’s morning, please come forward.