Who murdered 47 year old Glenda Carter in 1992? Glenda Carter, an African-American/Black female aged 47, was found dead on May 25, 1992, in Portland, Oregon. That afternoon, around 2 p.m., her body was discovered off a bushy footpath behind 5115 NE 14th Place, a residential stretch in Northeast Portland. The medical examiner determined that the 47-year-old woman died by strangulation, placing her killing in the overnight window after she was last seen between 11 p.m. on May 24 and 3 a.m. on May 25.
Before her death, the 47-year-old woman had moved to the Portland area about five months earlier to attend a truck-driving school in Tigard. For roughly a year, she had been traveling with her fiancé, a truck driver, and was pursuing her CDL to work alongside him. She chose Portland so she could live with her eldest daughter and be close to her three grandchildren while training for the new career.
The 47-year-old victim’s killing remains unsolved. Public case summaries and retrospective features note no publicly identified suspects and no arrests announced by authorities. Local cold-case listings and appeals for information continue to reference the open investigation, underscoring that, more than three decades later, there has been no resolution or named offender in the strangulation death of this 47-year-old woman.
