Loni Kai

A transgender woman is found brutally beaten in a field
In the late summer of 2001, the life of Loni Kai, a 28-year-old Pacific Islander transgender woman, was brutally cut short in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. In the pre-dawn hours of August 26, 2001, Loni was seen for the last time, walking and hitchhiking along Tualatin Valley Highway in the Hillsboro area after a night out. She had spoken with two Beaverton police officers who had stopped to check on her, but she declined their offer of assistance. A few hours later, her body was discovered b ...