Woodburn

After I wrote up this episode on Michael Schlicht, another almost definite John Doe victim of Randy Kraft was identified in April 2025.

In the early morning hours of July 18, 1980, the Oregon State Police were summoned to the east shoulder of the northbound lane of Interstate 5 near Woodburn, Oregon.

There lay the body of a dead man, which was still warm.

He had no identification on him, but his death was ruled a homicide.

Traffic and weather together are on the ones.

Michael Convery with news of a problem in Woodburn.

Yeah, it's an accident, I-5 southbound, uh, down again right near Broad Acres Road Northeast as you get, uh, into the Woodburn area in Marion County.

Looks like it's off on the shoulder, but causing a little bit of a delay as you head, uh, south of, uh, the Donald/Aurora area into Woodburn this afternoon.

Now, I-5 south is also pretty crowded still, uh, out of Tualatin.

It's just, just south of the 205 merge, moving down towards the, uh, Boone bridge in Wilsonville.

By the time he was 14, he was stealing cars.

He got busted and was sent to MacLaren's Reform School for Boys in Woodburn, Oregon.

This didn't reform him, and he was back to a life of crime when he was released a year later.

He spent the next several years being arrested for larceny, driving drunk, assault, and armed robbery.

There's just...

Because when I lived in Woodburn, I had one of those where I lived on a huge piece of property and there was really nothing behind me.

But if you hiked around enough, you could find someone else's house across a pasture or something.

And people would go out in the woods and shoot.

We verified at least 30 detentions.

Senator Merkley says ICE detentions have increased from one a day to one an hour in East Multnomah, Woodburn, Hillsboro.

Cars being followed and stopped, people being grabbed in restaurants.

These intensified sweeps are just terrorizing our communities.

Our hotline at PIRG began ringing off the hook.

We verified at least 30 detentions.

Senator Merkley says ICE detentions have increased from one a day to one an hour in East Multnomah, Woodburn, Hillsboro.

Cars being followed and stopped, people being grabbed in restaurants.

I think we even talked about it here before.

It's in Woodburn? It's in Woodburn, but you go and eat and drink amongst the hops.

Oh.

It's a very cool setting.

No more eating and drinking outside.

What else do we have here? That is

kind of cool, but I don't want to drive to Woodburn to drink.

Same reason I don't go to wine country.