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Alma Jean Barra

Case from Portland, OR dated Mar 26, 1972

Victim Details

Alma Jean Barra

August 30, 2023

Female

Portland

OR

1972-03-26

1972-03-23

1942-10-12

Red hair dyed black

28

1972-04004

Alma Jean

Barra

Victim

Red

Unknown

5'1

90 lbs

06/25/2026


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Who killed Alma Jean Barra?
Alma Jean Barra, a 28-year-old white woman from Portland, Oregon, known to friends as “Jeanie,” spent the late hours of March 23, 1972, at the Copper Penny Tavern. Near midnight she was seen leaving with an unidentified man, the two heading south on 92nd Avenue between 11:00 and 11:30 p.m. She was small—5'1' and about 90 pounds—with shoulder-length red hair dyed black, dressed in a white sweater and turtleneck beneath a maroon vest and pants.

Three days later, on March 26, 1972, ...
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