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Jason Childers

Case from Portland, OR dated Mar 17, 1997

Victim Details

Jason Childers

November 4, 2022

Male

Caucasian / White

Portland

OR

1997-03-17

1969-09-25

27

Jason

Childers

07/07/2026

1


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Caucasian/White male Jason Childers, age 27, finished the graveyard shift's quiet rituals shortly before dawn at the Plaid Pantry at 917 SW Gibbs Street, just down the hill from OHSU in Portland, Oregon. Around 4:20 a.m. on March 17, 1997, a customer stepped inside and found the clerk—Jason Childers, age 27—on the floor, fatally wounded. Investigators determined he had been shot multiple times while restocking shelves, the kind of ordinary task that marked the rhythm of those late hours when ...
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