Man sentenced for 1999 cold case and 2020 crime, linked by genealogy
A man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after he was found guilty of a 2020 murder and a 1999 cold-case homicide.
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A man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after he was found guilty of a 2020 murder and a 1999 cold-case homicide.
Christopher Lovrien, 56, was found guilty of second-degree murder and first-degree abuse of a corpse for killing Kenneth Griffin in 2020 and will now spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime.
A Portland, Oregon, man accused of killing two strangers who disappeared 20 years apart pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges.
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 […]
Oregon Man Is Charged With Two Murders Committed Two Decades Apart Genetic genealogy connected Christopher Lovrien to a 1999 homicide victim, according to the authorities, who said they found the remains of a 2020 homicide victim when they searched his property. Christopher Lovrien pleaded not guilty on Thursday in Portland, Ore., to two killings that took place more than two decades apart.Credit...Dave Killen/The Oregonian, via Associated Press March 11, 2021 An Oregon man has been charged with two cold-case murders that were committed more than two decades apart, the authorities said this w...