Chewing Gum DNA Ends 44-Year Hunt for Oregon Killer

Barbara Tucker, who was murdered in 1980, seen in an undated courtesy photo provided June 9, 2021

Barbara Mae Tucker, then 19, was a regular student attending Mount Hood Community College in Gresham until on January 15, 1980 the unthinkable happened. Her body was found by another student near the school parking lot, and it was discovered she had been murdered after being kidnapped and sexually assaulted. The killer was never found and Tucker became one of scores of cold case files—until now.

At the time of the murder, investigators took DNA swabs from the victim, but it wasn’t until 20 years later in 2000 that these samples were

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