Bishop Black
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Oregon man who killed Army sergeant in 1976 accused of 2 cold case murders with same gun
Steven Criss, a convicted murderer who has been free since 1988, has been charged in the cold case slayings of two teenage rivals with the same gun in 1974.
An Oregon man who killed his commanding officer in the Army in 1976 and was freed on parole in 1988 is now charged in a cold case double murder that left two teens dead in 1974 -- thanks to modernized ballistics testing, authorities said Friday.
And police are asking anyone with information on Steven Criss, 65, to come forward – because there might be "additional homicides."
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that new testing shows Donald Bartron, 16, and Peter Zito Jr., 18, were killed with the same gun as Army Sgt. Jacob "Kim" Brown.
All three victims had been shot multiple times in the head with a .22-caliber pistol, according to the sheriff’s office. But the science at the time did not link the weapon to the teens' deaths.
