On September 18, 2004, firefighters responding to a house fire at 9742 N James Street in Portland, Oregon, found 57-year-old resident Thomas Swift inside the home. Fire crews discovered Swift had sustained a gunshot wound; the state medical examiner later determined the fatal gunshot, not the fire, was the cause of death. The initial fire call was converted into a homicide investigation.

Investigators described Swift as a very private person. He was known to visit Sauvie Island and Columbia Beach frequently. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced, and the case later went cold. The Portland Police Bureau’s Cold Case Homicide Unit is asking anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone who knew Thomas or who spent time at Sauvie Island or Columbia Beach around September 2004 see or hear anything that could help this investigation?