Anthony Arthur Barker was 27 and homeless when he was lured in October 1991 by Douglas Franklin Wright, who advertised work in Portland, Oregon and offered $10 an hour to clear brush at a youth camp. Barker and two other men, William Clement Marks and William Ray Davis, accepted the offer. Wright drove them to a remote area on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, bought them food, offered them alcohol, and then fatally shot each man in the head with a pistol.

The discovery of these killings began when Wright shot and killed Anthony Shawn Nelson on October 20, 1991, after also attacking Randy Scott Henry. Henry escaped, ran to the highway, and alerted police; his testimony and another witness led to Wright’s arrest. Wright was convicted of the aggravated murders of Barker, Marks, and Davis in June 1993 and was sentenced to death on October 11, 1993. Wright later waived appeals and was executed by lethal injection on September 6, 1996.

Did anyone who knew Anthony Barker or saw the men responding to Wright’s work offer in Portland remember them that October?