Linda Kay Slawson, 19, vanished in Portland, Oregon in the winter of 1968 while working as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson. On January 26 she was last seen near Southeast 45th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard wearing a white coat, brown skirt and light brown shoes. She lived with her mother and siblings in Aloha, Oregon. Her car was later found with her purse inside, and she never collected a final paycheck for $125.

Jerome Henry Jerry Brudos, who lived in the neighborhood where she had been selling encyclopedias, later confessed to killing Linda and said he disposed of her body by throwing it from the Wilsonville Bridge on Interstate 5 into the Willamette River. Brudos admitted murders of other women and was convicted for three victims, but the charge in Linda Slawson’s case was dropped because her body was never found. Her family has not had remains to recover.

Does anyone have memories of that neighborhood or additional information about Linda’s last known movements on January 26, 1968?