10: The Portland Torso Murder w/ J.D. Chandler - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

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🗓️ 11 January 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

J.D. Chandler, author of "Murder and Scandal in Prohibition Portland", tells the tale of the Torso Murder in 1946 Portland, Oregon, including his decade long investigation of this very cold case.

Note: Note: J.D. Chandler, Portland Oregon's most well-known true crime historian, passed away on May 30th, 2021. I'm so lucky to have had him as a guest. Here is a story on his fascinating life:
https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2021/05/jd-chandler-prolific-chronicler-of-portland-murder-and-corruption-dies-at-60.html

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0:30.0	Welcome to the Most Notorious Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Riddies.
0:49.5	Today we not only have a nice little slice of crime history, but we've got a cherry
0:54.5	of a mystery for the top. Unless you happen to be from a certain, rainy little north
0:59.8	west corner of the United States, I'll bet you haven't heard of this one, but it's
1:03.8	incredibly interesting nonetheless. I'm excited to have Jay-Dee Chandler on the
1:08.7	podcast today. He is a well-known crime historian and writer in Portland, Oregon, and is
1:14.1	written extensively about the gruesome goings-on in the Rose City. Among the titles of his
1:19.9	books, Murder in Mayhem in Portland, Oregon, Portland on the Take, Mid-Century Crime
1:25.9	Bosses, Civic Corruption, and Forgotten Murders, and his newest home, Murder in Scandal
1:32.1	in Prohibition Portland, currently available for presale on Amazon.com and due to be released
1:38.6	on February 1st. That's the book we're going to be talking about today and one story in
1:43.9	particular, the Portland Torso Murder Case. Thank you for joining me today, Mr. Chandler.
1:51.2	Glad to be here. Your newest book, Co-written with Theresa Griffin Kennedy, contains lots
1:56.9	of stories of Portland during the 1920s. Before we talk about the murder itself, let's set
2:02.9	the backdrop. Tell us about Portland during the Prohibition years under Mayor George Baker,
2:09.0	and I'm assuming that things were not exactly on the level. Were they?
2:14.6	Well, yes and no. There's a couple of ideas that we kind of need to understand to really
2:23.3	get what was happening in Portland, Great Prohibition, and then that kind of helps us to understand
2:30.2	what happened in 1946 that's known as the Torso Murder Case. One of the most forgotten
2:35.6	Portland murders. It's not really forgotten though. People have always kind of kept this
2:39.6	idea of this Torso Murder open. It's just never been solved. That's what keeps people
2:44.5	interested is no one knows what happened. But in order to understand it, we need to go back
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