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Gwendolyn Fulce

Case from Portland, OR dated Sep 08, 1973

Victim Details

Gwendolyn Fulce

November 3, 2022

Female

African-American / Black

Portland

OR

1973-09-08

1952-03-23

21

Gwendolyn

Fulce

07/15/2026


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On a September afternoon in 1973, a grim discovery was made inside a home at 527 N. Ivy Street in Portland, Oregon. There, the bodies of two young African-American women, 21-year-old Gwendolyn Fulce and 24-year-old Delores Thompson, were found. The two friends had been brutally beaten to death in what would become a haunting and unsolved double homicide. Gwendolyn, a student at a local beauty college with no criminal record, had been visiting her friend Delores at her rented home.

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  • Portland's cold cases: 19 unsolved mysteries from the 1970s to 2010
  • DELORES THOMPSON, GWENDOLYN FULCE - Portland.gov
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