29-Year Old Cold Case Solved

In 2019, cold-case detectives at the Sheriff’s Office partnered with the DNA Doe Project t (the Project) to see if DNA and genealogy could be used to uncover a name. April 20, 2022Some 29 years after the body of an unknown homicide victim turned up on California...

DNA helps Klamath County investigators identify suspect in unsolved 1978 double murder

The young couple had been hitchhiking through Oregon, possibly to visit Crater Lake, when they disappeared sometime in September of 1978. Both had been shot, their bodies discarded in the woods. January 6, 2022KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — The long-cold case of a couple...

Council urges city manager to find entity to complete purge for police evidence room

The purge is tied to the outcome of an audit which revealed there may be more missing from the evidence room than the initial $900 in cash that couldn’t be found, triggering the need for an audit by an outside agency. October 25, 2021ONTARIO — Following an...

Man indicted in cold case murder, accused of killing wife in Oregon 25 years ago

Despite several attempts to identify the woman, she remained unidentified until 2019 when a new DNA technique was used to put a name to her remains. September 13, 2021MILL CREEK, Ore. – A 68-year-old is facing charges in a cold case murder from 1996, accused of...

Update: Audit for missing evidence spurs criminal investigation

The audit, which was conducted in July, was spurred as a result of a court case having wrapped up and OPD being unable to find the related evidence — $900 in cash — that was to be to be returned to the victim. September 1, 2021ONTARIO — A criminal investigation is...

Former Klamath Falls officer pleads guilty to stealing drugs from evidence room

Reif reportedly entered the Klamath Falls Police Department’s evidence room with an unauthorized key, removed an evidence item containing methamphetamine and fentanyl  Enter Article DATE HEREA former Klamath Falls police officer, who stole narcotics...