On May 13, 1990, 30-year-old Debra Kay “Debbie” Connor made a phone call that should have brought her safely home.

Standing at a payphone across from Frasu’s Restaurant and Lounge in Hermiston, Oregon, Debbie called her twin brother and asked if she could spend the night at the family home. He agreed and told her he would leave the door unlocked.

Before hanging up, Debbie said she had a ride.

She never arrived.

Twelve days later, Debbie’s body was discovered in Cold Springs Reservoir. She was found nude, bound, and murdered.

In Part One of this multi-episode investigation, we step away from the crime scene and meet the woman at the center of the mystery. Through interviews, newly obtained case records, and the memories of those who knew her best, we explore Debbie’s life in Pilot Rock and Stanfield, her relationships, her struggles, and the final hours leading up to her disappearance at Frasu’s on the night of May 12, 1990.

Drawing from more than 400 pages of investigative records, witness statements, interviews, and years of independent research, this episode reconstructs Debbie’s last known movements and examines the people who saw her alive for what would become the final time.

Before Debbie Connor became an unsolved homicide, she was a daughter, a sister, a twin, an artist, a cowgirl, and a friend.

This is where her story begins.

If you have information about the murder of Debbie Connor, please contact the Oregon State Police Cold Case Unit.

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