It was nearly eleven-thirty p.m. on the night of August 30th, 2000, and twenty-one-year-old Jamon Griffin was hanging out with friends in a parking lot on NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Portland, Oregon. Suddenly, two men began shooting into the crowd, and Jamon was hit. The suspects then fled the scene. The victim … More Jamon Griffin

It was August 24th, 2000, only ten days after the twenty-fourth birthday of Eric Delon Edwards. It was approaching two-thirty in the morning, and Eric’s car had broken down on Garrison Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was outside the vehicle, attempting to diagnose the problem, when two unknown men suddenly approached him and opened fire. … More Eric Edwards

On August 20th, 2000, police officers were summoned to the home of ninety-two-year-old Viginia Cauley Webb, who had not been heard from in some time. She lived on South Charlotte Avenue in Waynesboro, Virginia. When law enforcement entered the residence, they found the elderly woman dead. An autopsy later revealed she’d been strangled. Authorities did … More Virginia Webb

On August 14th, 2000, a set of skeletal remains was discovered in a wooded area off 12th Avenue SE in Immokalee, Florida. The deceased was male, with long, straight black hair; he was clad in blue jeans, a cotton necklace, and a white tank top bearing the slogan, “Yo quiero cerveza, I don’t want no … More Jose Ascencion Espino Hernandez

Shortly after one a.m. on August 4th, 2000, fifty-year-old James John Stewart was standing on SW 6th Avenue in Portland, Oregon, when he was approached by three individuals: two men and one woman. According to witnesses, there was a brief conversation, then one of the men reeled back and punched James. The older man fell … More James John Stewart

Leo Spiegler was seventy-seven years old and lived with his wife in a house on Goldhill Way in Las Vegas, Nevada. On Friday, July 21st, 2000, Leo’s wife had been out most of the day and was waiting for her husband to come pick her up. He never arrived. Meanwhile, at around four in the … More Leo Spiegler

Thirty-six-year-old Bernard Sowells lived in a home on Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Irene, the couple’s three children, Irene’s sister and brother-in-law, and a cousin. Bernard had lived a life of petty crime when younger and had spent some time in prison before the birth of his third child, but … More Bernard Sowells

David Butler was forty-two years old and worked as an editor at the Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper. He lived alone in the Colonial Village neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, and was described by neighbors as a quiet man who tended to keep to himself. At about one-thirty a.m. on the morning of Saturday, July … More David Butler

Forty-five-year-old Russell Lee Roberts lived on East 56th Street North in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was described by neighbors as something of a loner. On July 14th, Russell was found shot to death inside his residence, likely the victim of a home-invasion-style robbery. There was no indication of forced entry, leading investigators to suspect that the … More Russell Lee Roberts