In December 1987 a foul odor from room 424 of the Clifford Hotel in Southeast Portland led the manager and a maintenance worker to force the door on December 10. Inside they found the partially decomposed body of Debora Lynett Longoria, who lived in that apartment. An autopsy determined she died from an assault with a blunt instrument.

Debora was an exotic dancer who used drugs and shared the unit with a roommate, Timothy Cloud, who was missing when her body was found and had apparently been gone for some time. Investigators named Cloud a person of interest. He is described as a white male, about 5 feet 7 inches and 160 pounds at the time, with balding brown hair and distinctive tattoos on his right arm and right shoulder. Originally from Texas, he is a registered sex offender and was last known to be in Tennessee in 2007; no arrests in the case have been reported.

Are there readers who knew Debora or who can account for Timothy Cloud’s movements around December 1987?