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The Deck

Loni Kai Okaruru (5 of Hearts, Oregon)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Loni Kai Okaruru made several stops on the morning of August 26, 2001, and interacted with several people, before she was beaten to death, her body left on a farm in Washington County, Oregon. Loni Kai’s murder was quickly labeled by police as a hate crime, but decades later her killer is still unknown.

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0:00.0

Our card this week is Lonnie Ka Oka Roo, the five of hearts from Oregon.

0:09.2

For more than 20 years, investigators have retraced Lonnie's last steps from the night that she was viciously murdered.

0:16.0

And while that tactic has provided some solid clues, none have led to answers as to what happened to her.

0:22.0

But police are pretty certain that they know why. have led to answers as to what happened to her.

0:22.8

But police are pretty certain that they know why Lonnie was targeted.

0:27.3

That likely motive, combined with fresh eyes on the case

0:30.3

and some physical evidence,

0:32.1

means that Lonnie is closer than ever to getting justice.

0:36.6

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. Oh, It was just after 7 in the morning on August 26, 2001, when a 16-year-old girl I'll call Sally

1:18.8

ventured out for a jog on her family's farm near Farmington, Oregon. This area, about a half hour west of bustling

1:25.6

Portland, was pretty rural. Picture rolling farmlands and vineyards. Sally got close to her

1:31.7

turnaround spot at the edge of their property nearby

1:34.3

busy Farmington Road when something caught her eye at the base of a tree line.

1:38.4

She thought it was someone sleeping, but as she got closer she saw what appeared to be a woman covered in blood with gruesome

1:46.7

injuries to her face. Sally ran back to her parents' house and alerted her dad who at first

1:52.0

thought his teenage daughter was playing an awful

1:54.1

prank on him. But when he got dressed and followed her outside he realized this was no joke so he

1:59.8

alerted his wife who in turn called for help.

2:03.6

At the time, they weren't sure if this person was dead

2:06.1

or just severely injured,

2:07.4

so both medics and the sheriff's deputies

2:09.3

got dispatched to the property

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