Cesar Francesco Barone

Serial Killer

Cesar Francesco Barone: Oregon Serial Killer and Rapist

Background

Cesar Francesco Barone, born Adolph James Rode Jr. on December 4, 1960, in Florida, was an American serial killer and sexual predator whose known crimes stretched from Florida to Oregon. Barone accumulated a long history of burglary, sexual violence, and assaults before becoming responsible for a series of killings in the Portland metropolitan area during the early 1990s. Oregon juries ultimately convicted him in connection with the deaths of four women. More than three decades after one additional killing, modern DNA testing conclusively linked him to a fifth victim, Elizabeth Wasson. Barone's crimes did not follow one completely uniform method. Some victims were attacked after he entered their homes, while others were abducted or confronted while traveling. Sexual assault, threats with weapons, strangulation or suffocation, and shootings appeared in different cases. Several women also survived violent sexual assaults attributed to him. His attacks demonstrated that he was willing to target women of different ages and use whatever level of violence was necessary to overpower them.

Early Violence and the Alice Stock Case

Long before the Oregon murders, Barone was connected to serious violence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a teenager, when he was still known as Adolph James Rode, he broke into the home of neighbor Alice Stock and attempted to sexually assault her while armed with a knife. Stock survived that encounter, and Rode spent time in juvenile custody. After serving a prison sentence for burglary, Rode was released in November 1979. Fifteen days after his release, Alice Stock was found raped and strangled in her Fort Lauderdale home on November 29, 1979. Investigators immediately had reason to consider Rode because of his previous attack on the same woman, but authorities did not believe they had enough evidence to successfully prosecute him at that time. Years later, after Barone had been identified as a serial killer in Oregon, Florida investigators reopened Stock's murder. Prosecutors eventually charged him with her killing. The case never resulted in a conviction, however. In 2000, Florida prosecutors dismissed the murder charge because of evidentiary problems associated with the decades-old investigation and because Barone was already under multiple death sentences in Oregon. Stock therefore remains a suspected rather than judicially confirmed victim of Barone. ...

Confirmed Victims: (5)

Margaret Schmidt Age: (61), Date of Death: 1991-04

Suspected Victims:

Alice Stock Age: (73), Date of Death: 1979-11-29

Joyce Marie Scarbrough Age: (61), Date of Death: 1993-02-04

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