OR OR - Ashok Narain, 30, Eugene, 1 Jan 1987

[Coffee56]

Demographics
Missing Age30 Years
Current Age63 Years
First NameAshok
Middle NameKumar
Last NameNarain
Nickname/Alias--

SexMale
Height5' 2" - 5' 7" (62 - 67 Inches)
Weight135 - 185 lbs
Race / EthnicityAsian

Circumstances
Date of Last ContactJanuary 1, 1987
NamUs Case CreatedJuly 9, 2010
Last Known Location Map
LocationEugene, Oregon 97402
CountyLane County

Circumstances of DisappearanceThis person, his wife and young daughter disappeared from Eugene, Oregon in 1987. In September 1987 the murdered bodies of his wife and daughter were found in the State of Washington.
Physical Description
Hair ColorBlack
Head Hair Description--
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye ColorBrown
Right Eye ColorBrown
Eye Description--
Distinctive Physical Features
No Known Information

Clothing and Accessories
No Information Entered
Additional Case Info

Transportation
1980 Toyota Tercel

StyleSedan
ColorWhite
StateOregon
License PlateKUV762
Expiration Year1993
CommentsVehicle is being sought to process as a possible crime scene.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Nancy Drew RN]

This blog post on Charley is illuminating:

Let’s talk about it: Ashok Narain

While the remains of his wife and child were found in 1987, they were not identified until 2007, and the family, including Ashok, was not reported missing until 2006. Seems odd as well that the vehicle has never been recovered, although twenty years is plenty of time for it to have been retired and off the road.

Ashok Kumar Narain – The Charley Project

 

[Nancy Drew RN]

Ashok Narain 1 - Newspapers.com
Ashok Narain 2 - Newspapers.com
Ashok Narain 3 - Newspapers.com
Ashok Narain 4 - Newspapers.com

At least one article states that immigration in Fiji says that Ashok Narain returned in 1988 (so after the discovery of his wife and child's bodies), with no record of him departing Fiji under his own name.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Well now, that is a tad difficult to pull off without being intentional..... So where did he (Ashok) run off to? Fiji? Canada? If he was selfish enough to remove them from his life, and determined enough to ensure no one found them, he's alive, somewhere. Just my opinion but this is a narcissist who wanted to wipe them from the earth for his own selfish reasons.

From the above link:
The story begins in 1983 when Ashok, a native of Fiji, married Raj, a fellow Fijian from his village. It was an arranged ceremony. The couple moved to Oregon and subsequently had a little girl, Kamnee Koushal Narain.

The Narains regularly wrote letters to their families back in Fiji. Nobody back home detected anything amiss from the letters; it looked like a normal marriage and Raj seemed happy enough. The letters eventually stopped, but the couple’s Fijian relatives weren’t worried.

In the meantime, in September 1987, the dismembered remains of a pregnant woman were found in two different rivers in Washington and Oregon. A few days later, a toddler’s body was found in yet a third river in the vicinity. Although the police suspected the woman and child were related, they couldn’t prove it, and there were no missing persons that matched either of them.

Ashok’s brother reported the Narains missing in 2006. He’d heard about the dead woman and baby in Washington, and Raj’s family couldn’t find any trace of her online. In 2007, DNA testing confirmed the bodies were Raj and Kamnee. Mother and daughter were taken back Fiji for burial. Raj was 24 years old at the time of her death; Kamnee was only fourteen months.

 

[kimmo]

Fiji is a small island and had a population of well under a million in 1988. If Ashok returned in 1988, where is he? Was the information accurate that it really was Ashok who had returned to Fiji 8 months after the bodies of his pregnant wife and child were found?