Decades -old death in Oregon, which may be connected to the notorious serial killer in California

A man who was found dead along the Interstate 5 in Oregon was identified after almost 45 years, and the police say that a notorious serial killer in California is the only person who is interested in the case.

The 30-year-old was identified as Larry Eugene Parks on Friday. Kyle Kennedy, spokesman for the Oregon State State Police, said Randy Kraft, who was referred to as the “Scorecard murderer”, was the only person examined for the murder of 1980.

“There are indications that we process to determine this link,” said Kennedy. “We are very confident that we have the right person of interest.”

The 80 -year -old force was convicted in 1989 for brutalization and killing of 16 men over a decade in California and sentenced to death. He remains detained in the San Quentin State Prison and denied the killing of someone.

On July 18, 1980, the police responded to a report on a body that was now identified as parks along the I-5 south of Portland near Woodburn. At that time, the police opened a murder examination and unsuccessfully tried to identify the victim.

Parks, a Vietnam veteran, whose family had lost contact with him in 1979, was most recently seen in Pensacola, Florida, the police said.

Strength was run over in his vehicle on a motorway in California in 1983 after a soldier drove it irregularly. There was US navy on the passenger seat of the vehicle. According to the police, there was a coded list in the trunk of Kraft's vehicle, which was assumed to raise 67 victims in California, Oregon and Michigan.

The public prosecutor described Kraft, a former computer programmer, as a fetishist who kept some of the dismembered parts of his victims in his freezer.

In 2024, an investigator of the sheriff of the sheriff in Orange County turned to the cold unit of the cold in Oregon State Police and offered it to identify the remains that uses forensic investigative genetic genealogy. A genetic profile was developed from a blood sample and the identity of Parks was confirmed after possible family members submitted for comparison, according to the DNA profiles.

Until his identification last month, the circumstances of his disappearance of his family were unknown, the police said.

In 2023 the Remains of a teenager It was assumed that he was killed by force in California in California, also using the genetic genealogy investing.