In the early hours of October 3, 1974, Peter Zito Jr., 18, and his 16-year-old classmate Donald Bartron were found shot multiple times in the head beside Zito’s 1956 Oldsmobile in the Oak Hills Recreation Center parking lot in Beaverton, Oregon. Both had apparently been working on the car when the attack occurred; the hood and trunk were left popped.

Initial leads produced an arrest and indictment of Joseph Amir Wilson, but those charges were dropped the following January when the case against him collapsed. In December 1974 deputies recovered a concealed .22-caliber handgun in the car of 17-year-old Steven Paul Criss, but ballistics testing then did not link that weapon to the Oak Hills shooting and the investigation went cold.

Decades later, after Criss used a .22-caliber gun in a 1976 murder at Fort Lewis and later pleaded guilty, revisited ballistics testing produced a match between the Fort Lewis weapon and the Oak Hills bullets. That testing led to Criss’s arrest and indictment in November 2022 for the 1974 killings. Who has information about Zito, Bartron, or that night in Oak Hills?