Ashok Kumar Narain was a man who went missing sometime in 1987 or 1988.
He is considered a person of interest in the murders of his pregnant wife and daughter, who were found murdered in 1987. The family was not reported missing until 2006 and the bodies of his wife and daughter were identified in 2007.
Case[]
1983 photograph
The exact date of Ashok's disappearance is unknown, with different sources listing him as going missing either in April 1988 or sometime in 1987.
In September of 1987, the dismembered remains of his pregnant wife, Raj, were discovered, with her torso found in the Lewis River in Woodland, Washington and her legs found in a river in Portland, Oregon. Several days later, the remains of his daughter, Kamnee, were found in Kelso, Washington. She had been beaten to death and her body was also dumped in a river. Authorities suspected the two cases were connected, but this could not be confirmed.
The Narain family was not reported missing until 2006, and Raj and Kamnee's bodies were identified by DNA testing in 2007. According to Ashok's brother, who was living in Fiji, he regularly communicated with him through mail but he had not heard from him since April 1988. Ashok is considered a person of interest in his wife and daughter's murders, but he is not officially listed as a suspect. His vehicle, a white 1980 Toyota Tercel, is also missing, and authorities are trying to locate it and process it as a potential crime scene.
Sources[]
- Ashok Narain at NamUs
- Ashok Narain at the Charley Project