Do you know who murdered Dale Leslie Behm? Caucasian / White Dale Leslie Behm, age 47, was found shot to death in Eugene, Oregon, on December 12, 1972. Hours earlier, he had been drinking beer at Rod's Hof Brau, a tavern at 1030 Highway 99 North. Sometime between 10 p.m. on December 11 and 3:25 a.m. on December 12, the night turned fatal. A passerby noticed someone motionless in a pickup truck outside the tavern and flagged down a Eugene police officer. Inside the vehicle, the officer discovered Behm; he had been shot multiple times.
Investigators later determined that his wallet was missing, a detail that pointed to a possible robbery layered atop the violence.
Detectives worked the narrow window between the last sighting and the discovery in the truck, but the case stalled. No arrests were announced, and no named suspect emerged publicly. The case remains listed among Eugene's cold cases, with authorities continuing to invite tips from anyone who might help close the gap between a busy tavern night and the gunfire that ended a 47-year-old man's life.
Beyond the crime scene, traces of Dale Leslie Behm's life and death remain in public records: memorial listings confirm his age and the December 12, 1972 date in Eugene, and note his burial at West Lawn Memorial Park. They offer the stark bookends to a file that—decades on—still waits for the missing pages that would name a suspect and explain why a pickup outside a neighborhood tavern became the site of a killing.
