On the afternoon of September 8, 1973, 24-year-old Delores Thompson was found dead in her Portland, Oregon home on North Ivy Street, along with her 21-year-old friend Gwendolyn Fulce. Both women had been bludgeoned to death; Delores’s two-and-a-half-year-old son was discovered physically unharmed on a couch near his mother. The father of Delores’s young son, Roy Lee Jernigan, found the front door ajar and made the discovery when he went to pick up the child.

Gwendolyn, a beauty college student with no criminal record, had been spending the night; investigators arrived with no apparent motive and interviewed numerous people but were never able to identify suspects. No arrests were made and no clear reason for the violence has been established. Delores’s oldest son, then seven, remembers his mother’s funeral as his last memory of her.

Does anyone have information about Delores or Gwendolyn from Portland in 1973 that could help finally answer what happened that day?