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Who murdered 49 year old Leoned Santiago in 1988?
On a September day in 1988, a young woman's walk across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon, led to a grim discovery. The decomposing smell led her to look down, where she spotted what appeared to be a human arm beneath the south edge of the SE Water Avenue on-ramp. The authorities were called, and they soon unearthed the partially decomposed body of a man later identified as Leoned Joseph Santiago, a 49-year-old Hispanic male. An autopsy would later reveal the brutal nature of his death; h ...Read More
On a September day in 1988, a young woman's walk across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon, led to a grim discovery. The decomposing smell led her to look down, where she spotted what appeared to be a human arm beneath the south edge of the SE Water Avenue on-ramp. The authorities were called, and they soon unearthed the partially decomposed body of a man later identified as Leoned Joseph Santiago, a 49-year-old Hispanic male. An autopsy would later reveal the brutal nature of his death; h ...Read More
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Leoned Santiago
November 7, 2022
Male
Hispanic / Latino
Portland
OR
1988-09-07
1988-08-16
49
Leoned
Santiago
11/21/2025
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Has anyone else looked into the potential witness who might have seen Santiago under the bridge that... ...Read More
04/03/2024
04/03/2024
