Karl Everett Kneedler, a White man, was found dead from gunshot wounds on April 10, 1999, in his makeshift apartment at 2228 NE Alberta Street in Portland, Oregon. The body was discovered by Walter Holland, part-owner of the building that also served as the Brothers Free Motorcycle Club clubhouse and a motorcycle repair shop. Investigators established Kneedler was last seen alive in the early evening of April 9, 1999, in the company of an unidentified man known only as John; authorities want to locate John to learn what he may know, and no arrests have been announced.

Earlier that week a woman named Laurie Larson had been found dead in Kneedler’s apartment after Kneedler called police saying she had felt unwell and then stopped breathing; an autopsy attributed her death to a drug overdose. It is not known whether Larson’s death and Kneedler’s homicide are connected. Anyone with information about John, Kneedler’s movements on April 9, or either death is asked to come forward.