Do you know who murdered this retired Marine? Timothy Charles Alioth, a Caucasian/White male, 58, died in Vancouver, Washington on February 6, 2009. Born August 3, 1950, in Portland, he spent most of his life in the Portland–Vancouver area. Friends and family remembered him in an obituary published by The Columbian in mid-February 2009.
That Friday evening at about 7:14 p.m., Alioth and his sister, Donna Plew, were shot in the driveway of Plew's home at 7016 Indiana Lane as they stepped from Alioth's truck.
The siblings were targeted together; Alioth had been living at his sister's house at the time. Both were pronounced dead, marking a grim double homicide in an otherwise quiet neighborhood.
Police categorized the case among the city's unsolved homicides and continued to seek leads in the years that followed, with no public announcement of arrests or identified suspects. Local coverage at the time confirmed the victims' identities and the scene, but subsequent listings by the Vancouver Police Department have kept the case open, indicating investigators still need information to move it forward.
Beyond the crime scene, obituaries and memorial pages offer glimpses of Alioth's life: a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served from 1967 to 1973 and was laid to rest with military honors at Willamette National Cemetery on February 19, 2009. Those tributes, written by people who knew him, now stand alongside the city's enduring call for tips in a case that remains unresolved.
