Cold Cases

BadgeThe Lane County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Team consists of retired law enforcement officers who donate their time and expertise to investigating cold cases that are often decades old, including homicides and missing persons cases. 

If you have information on a homicide cold case, please contact the team at 541-682-4513,  or you can submit a confidential email to [email protected]

If you have information on a missing person cold case, please contact our Missing Persons Investigations line at 541-682-3063.

Donations can also be made online by visiting:  Lane County Sheriff Donations, OR - Online Payments (pointandpay.net)

***The above tip lines are not monitored 24 hours a day.  For tips that require more immediate follow-up, our Dispatch center can be reached by calling 541-682-4150 then press 1. 


LCSO would like to thank:

  • Walmart Corporation for their generous grant to our Cold Case Unit.  These funds have been used to pay for advanced genetic DNA research in open cases, a technology that has been very successful in clearing many homicides throughout the country.

  • The Alera Management Group, LLC of Lake Oswego for their generous donation to continue this work.