I’ve been compiling a list of missing and murdered young women from the 1970’s in Oregon in a notebook, and I figured why not also include it here. As I learn of new victims I will update the list… over the years I’ve found dozens of names on various websites and newspaper articles about other missing and murdered women, but they’re scattered all over the internet in a million different sources… why not put them all here?

Janet Lynn Karin-Shanahan: (April 23, 1969, Eugene). Twenty-two years old. Strangled and found in the trunk of her own car.

Niki Diane Britten: (July 16, 1969, Albany). Fifteen years old. Frequent run away.

Barbara Katherine Cunningham: (May 25, 1971, Eugene). Thirty-four years old. Found deceased in her apartment by her mother.

Barbara Ann Bryson: (July 29, 1971, Stayton). Nineteen years old. Was last known to be attending a party.

Fay Ellen Robinson: (March 12, 1972, Eugene). Found deceased in apartment.

Alma Jean Barra: (March 23, 1972, Happy Valley). Twenty-eight years old. Found deceased in Willamette National Cemetery.

Beverly May Jenkins: (May 25, 1972, Cottage Grove). Sixteen years old. Her remains were found in June 1972 just off the I-5 roughly ten miles outside of Cottage Grove; she had been strangled to death. 

Jane Pellett: (June 7, 1972, Salem). Twenty-eight years old. Found deceased on a busy roadside on June 26, 1972.

Geneva Joy Martin: (June 16, 1972, Eugene). Nineteen years old. Found deceased on the side of the road by a farmer.

Rita Lorraine Jolly: (June 29, 1973, West Linn). Seventeen years old. Disappeared while out on a routine nightly walk.

Allison Lynn Caufman: (July 1973, Portland). Fifteen years old. Died as a result of head injuries after being shoved from a car moving at a high rate of speed.

Laurie Lee Canaday: (July 9, 1973, Milwaukee). Her remains were recovered on the pavement at the intersection of Southeast Scott Street and McLoughlin Blvd in Milwaukee, OR.

Susan Ann Wickersham: (July 11, 1973, Bend). Seventeen years old. Was found deceased from a gunshot wound on January 20, 1976.

Vicki Lynn Hollar: (August 20, 1973, Eugene). Disappeared along with her 1965 VW black VW Beetle with IL plates and the running boards removed.

Gayle LeClair: (August 23, 1973, Eugene). Found stabbed in her apartment.

Deborah Lee Tomlinson: (October 15, 1973, Creswell/Eugene). Disappeared along with a friend on her sixteenth birthday. According to her sister (and my friend) Jean she was seen in California after she disappeared).

Virginia Erickson: (October 21, 1973, Portland). Thirty-two years old, mother of six. Disappeared, most likely killed by her husband.

Suzanne Rae Seay-Justis: (November 5, 1973, Portland). From Eugene, despite having a car hitchhiked.

Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter: (October 1974, Tigard). According to McWhorter’s sister, she had been traveling before she disappeared around the Western part of the US. Her body was finally identified in September 2025, but the case remains unsolved.

Becky Rae Martin: (February 15, 1975, Junction City). Twenty-two. Throat cut.

Leslie Michelle (seven years old) and Geoffrey Lyman (five years old) Brown. Murders took place on February 22, 1975 and both victims were found on March 12, 1975 in McIver Park, Estacada.

Margo Nerline Ascencio-Castro: (March 1, 1975, Eugene). Twenty-two years old. Found stabbed in a motel room, possibly involved with a local motorcycle gang.

Shirley Anita Wallace: (July 21, 1975, Eugene). Thirty-one years old. Found, shot.

Tina Marie Mingus: (October 1975, Salem). Sixteen-years old. Murdered, body recovered.

Cherril Sue Miller: (October 12, 1975, Portland). Twenty-eight years old.

Camille Karen Covert-Foss: (October 17, 1975, Hillsboro). Found shot in her vehicle at her POE, in a Southwest Portland-area shopping center.

Kim Charleson: (January 7, 1976, Cannon Beach). The 22 year old had been in college and may have been carrying a small amount of Canadian currency when she disappeared.

Cindy Irene King: (July 19, 1977, Grants Pass). Fifteen years old. Disappeared.

Margie Ann Fernette: (January 24, 1978). Found in Fairfield Elementary School.

Benita Gay Chamberlin: (February 23, 1978, Eugene). Twenty-four years old.

Floy Joy/Jean Bennett: (February 23, 1978, Beaverton). Thirty-seven years old.

Karen Etta Whiteside: (March 22, 1978). Sixteen years old.

Diana Marie Kuhn*: (December 10, 1978, Portland). Twenty years old. Remains found in in West Linn, OR.

Christie Lynn Farni: (December 14, 1978, Medford). Six years old.

Irin Marie Meyer: (July 20, 1979, Brookings). Twenty-nine years old.

Sheryl Wright: (no additional information at this time).

* Thank you for Diana’s cousin Donna Mollema for informing me about her.