William Ray Davis, a 37-year-old white man who was experiencing homelessness, was killed on October 1, 1991. He was lured from Portland to a remote stretch of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Wasco County by a man promising day labor at ten dollars an hour. Once isolated in the high desert, Davis was shot in the head and left at the scene.

Detectives tied Davis’s death to a pattern in October 1991 that included the killings of 23-year-old William Clement Marks and 27-year-old Anthony Arthur Barker. Evidence linked the recruiter to Douglas Franklin Wright, who was arrested after an October 20 attempt in which one intended victim, Anthony Nelson, was shot and another, Randy Scott Henry, escaped and led police to Wright. Wright was tried in Wasco County, convicted of the aggravated murders of Davis, Marks, and Barker, and sentenced to death on October 11, 1993.

The official record lists Davis by name, age, county, date, and place of death, and no other suspects were credibly identified. Does anyone have memories of Davis or information about the Portland locations where men were approached that October?