"Less than half have been solved"

The Daily Crime

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4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In 2021, the city of Portland saw a record 90 homicides. Are these cases being solved? That is the question KGW Senior Investigative Reporter Kyle Iboshi has been asking. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.4	Less than half of the homicides in Portland were solved.
0:05.3	While someone may hold the answers, they're not providing that information to investigators.
0:10.1	And as a result, victims' families have no answers either.
0:13.6	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:15.9	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:22.7	We haven't even had a memorial service for him because there's no closure yet for my family.
0:29.2	I mean, it's been almost a year, and we are just not ready to say goodbye to him.
0:34.0	Because you don't know who's responsible.
0:36.0	Right.
0:36.6	In 2021, the city of Portland saw a record of 90 homicides.
0:41.8	Fewer than half have been solved,
0:44.0	including the shooting deaths of 36-year-old Adam Aram Beattie and his friend, Billy Peters.
0:48.9	And I truly believe that who's responsible, this is probably not their first rodeo, or it definitely was not
0:56.2	their last.
0:57.5	It's not everybody in Portland that carries a gun that's going out shooting people anonymously.
1:01.7	It's pretty much the same small group of people who are instigating it.
1:08.5	I think that's an important point, by solving one case you may ultimately be preventing
1:13.9	another.
1:14.9	Right, which is why I am so dedicated to trying to reach out to the public to provide tips
1:22.4	because it's not going to bring my son Adam back, but it certainly might stop another family from having
1:29.1	to go through the same grief and horror that we've had to go through.
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