The detective who knew too much: Don DuPay’s Portland police career haunts him. He’s still trying to get justice
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Don DuPay joined the Portland Police Bureau in 1961. He resigned in frustration 17 years later. (Photos courtesy of Don DuPay)
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When Don DuPay found her in the Plaid Pantry store, the woman was sprawled on her back, her clothes torn from her body. She’d been raped and then knifed to death.
A week earlier the first week of September in 1975 the Portland police detective had taken on another distressing case, this one involving a Black teenager shot to death in his bedroom. DuPay showed up late for the autopsy, hoping to avoid seeing the medical examiner saw into the boy’s skull.