Roxanne Ellis, 53, and her partner Michelle Abdill were found murdered in Medford, Oregon, after disappearing on December 4, 1995. Ellis, a property manager, had planned to show a rental that morning and later spoke briefly to her daughter, saying she was going shopping. Abdill left their office that afternoon, telling a colleague she was going to help Ellis with a dead car battery; that proved to be a ruse.

Four days later a cable television installer spotted Ellis’s pickup truck in an apartment complex lot. Inside the truck bed police found both women bound, gagged with duct tape, and each shot twice in the head. The killings shocked a community that knew the couple as active church members and advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.

Investigators arrested 27-year-old Robert James Acremant on December 13, 1995, after a tip from his mother. He confessed to the killings; his initial claim was robbery but he later told a hometown newspaper he had killed the women because he hated homosexuals. Acremant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death in Oregon in October 1997.

If anyone knew Roxanne or Michelle, their routines, or saw Ellis’s truck around December 4, 1995, please come forward with information.