Melvin Longie, a 51-year-old American Indian man, was found dead the evening of May 2, 1989, along the railroad tracks in the 100 block of SE Oak Street in Portland. A white male transient ran into a café at SE 2nd and Oak around 7:20 p.m. to report a body; officers located Longie and homicide detectives were called. An autopsy determined he died of multiple stab wounds.

In the days after the killing, several accounts surfaced of a white man, about 35, boasting that he had killed someone. Detectives pursued those leads but could not verify the claim. Investigators were hampered by a lack of witnesses to the attack, the transient population near the rail corridor, and no recovered weapon or forensic breakthrough to tie a suspect to the stabbing. No arrests have been reported and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Longie or who spent time near the SE Oak Street rail corridor in 1989 see or hear anything that could help the investigation?