Wilbur Jones was found dead in his Portland apartment on the 6800 block of NE Union Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard) after a concerned manager checked on him the afternoon of June 16, 1975. The manager entered with a key and discovered Jones in a scene of disarray. Police concluded Jones had been beaten and died from a traumatic neck injury; detectives described signs of a violent struggle.

Jones was 58 and in poor health, using a wheelchair or a cane for mobility. Investigators noted he drank excessively and associated with prostitutes. A neighbor reported seeing an unidentified African-American man at Jones’s door about 12:30 a.m. the same morning. The witness described the man as about six feet tall and 180 pounds, with medium-length black hair, a small mustache, black trousers and shoes, a black wide-brimmed hat, and a yellow leather jacket the length of a suit coat.

No arrests have been announced and the homicide remains unsolved. Did anyone living in that neighborhood in 1975 remember the man in the yellow jacket or have other information about Wilbur Jones’s contacts that night?