CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (TCN) — Investigators are working to identify a victim whose remains were found nearly 80 years ago.
According to a news release from the Oregon State Police, the partial remains of a woman were discovered in a burlap sack in the Willamette River in April 1946. Authorities located additional remains in July and October near Willamette Falls, the McLoughlin Bridge, and near the original site.
Investigators determined the victim was likely a middle-aged woman, and her cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. She had reportedly been dismembered following her death before her remains were placed in multiple burlap sacks and dumped in the river…