Anthony Shawn Tony Nelson was 27 when he accepted a ride and a job offer on October 20, 1991, in Portland, Oregon. He and another homeless man, Randy Scott Henry, got into a vehicle driven by Douglas Franklin Wright, who promised paid brush-clearing work at a youth camp. The men were driven onto the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Wasco County. Wright bought them food and offered alcohol, then produced a pistol and fatally shot Nelson in the head. Henry escaped and led police to Wright.

Investigators linked Nelson’s killing to a pattern: Wright used the same promise-of-work ruse to lure and murder at least three other homeless men — Anthony Barker, William Marks, and William Davis. Wright was arrested and later convicted in the Barker, Marks, and Davis killings and received a death sentence. Because Nelson was a Makah tribal member and the crime occurred on reservation land, federal authorities brought an indictment for his murder under the Major Crimes Act, but Nelson’s case was not tried to conviction separately.

Did anyone who knew Nelson in Portland or on the reservation remember seeing him with Wright that week?