Do you know who murdered Octaviano? On Halloween night in 1992, Octaviano Zaragoza—a 31-year-old male who was without housing—was found comatose with grave head injuries in the narrow north–south alley behind Rick's Down Under tavern at 247 Washington Street, just east of Washington Jefferson Park in Eugene. His shoes had been stolen and his pack rifled, signs that a brief, brutal encounter spilled into robbery as the blows fell. He later died of his wounds; the medical findings point to blunt force trauma from multiple stri
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