The Disappearance of Deborah Atrops

In November 1988, Deborah Lee Atrops vanished after an ordinary evening in Washington County, Oregon. She was 30 years old. A bookkeeper. A new mother. A woman navigating the complicated end of a marriage and trying to build a future for herself and her daughter.

Two days later, her body was found in the trunk of her car on a quiet dead-end road.

For decades, Deborah’s case sat unresolved. She was a name in a file, a question without an answer. Law enforcement suspected who was responsible, but the evidence wasn’t there.

Until it was. Listen to find out more.

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