PORTLAND, Ore. A Portland, Oregon, man accused of killing two strangers who disappeared 20 years apart pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges after authorities investigating the earlier case said they found dismembered human remains of another man in the suspect’s shed. Police arrested Christopher Lovrien, 53, in May after forensic genealogy linked him […]
A US man who was arrested for a 1999 cold case last year has now been charged with a second murder, according to prosecutors in Portland, Oregon.
The Multnomah County District Attorney s Office announced on Wednesday that Christopher Charles Lovrien, 53, was indicted by a grand jury for the murders of Mark Dribin and Kenneth Griffin.
Mr Dribin disappeared in July 1999. Investigators found evidence at his home leading them to believe he d been killed, but they didn t find his body and they weren t able to identify DNA samples recovered from his home and vehicle.
Mark Dribin disappeared in 1999.(Multnomah County Sheriff)
For two decades the case went unsolved.
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Christopher Lovrien
A Portland, Ore. man has been indicted on charges that he killed a man several months after police interviewed him in the cold case killing of a previous victim who died nearly two decades earlier.
Christopher Lovrien, now 53, is now charged in both killings. He was initially indicted in April 2020 in the alleged murder of
Mark Dribin, then 42. He was reindicted of killing Dribin and newly indicted of killing
Kenneth Griffin this week.
Lovrien and his two alleged victims were apparently strangers with “no known connection” to the defendant, according to a press release from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.