A notorious Portland nightclub owner convicted of murdering a 21-year-old employee in 1990 was taken into custody in Clackamas County on Friday, according to jail records.
Larry Hurwitz, 71, is being held at the Clackamas County Jail on charges of fourth-degree assault on a domestic partner and parole violation. He was apprehended by the Sandy Police Department.
Hurwitz owned Portland’s Starry Night nightclub in the late 1980s. He was convicted of the murder of Timothy Moreau, whose remains were never discovered. According to court documents, Hurwitz was arrested in 1998, eight and a half years after Moreau’s death. He pleaded no contest to a murder charge and served eight years in prison…