The fatal stabbing of a retired Lake Oswego engineer Monday morning continues to baffle. Media reports are sketchy and contradictory, and the county sheriff isn't doing much to straighten things out. In the absence of reliable information, here's a post that's been circulating around on Facebook:

On Monday night at approximately 9:50 - 10:00 pm, when I was driving home (heading southbound down Boones Ferry Road) I noticed three adults with camping backpacks (bed roll, large backpack) walking in the opposing direction towards LO High School. (this would be approximately 1/2 - 3/4 of a mile from where the murder occurred). One of these persons in this group was a slender and very tall male. They caught my eye because it was so out of place for LO as rarely do we see people who look like transients walking around. Within ten seconds of that I saw an LO police car heading up towards the three people. I was looking in my rear view mirror to see if the police were going to pull over and see who they were and where they were headed. I make this point to emphasize how out of place these people looked.

When I heard about what happened Monday morning, I called the LO non-emergency number and relayed the above information to them. When I saw the sketch of the suspect, I think there may be a very real possibility of association between the people I saw last Monday night and this person shown in the suspect sketch.

For what it's worth. It's all we've got. "Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your kids, hide your wife..."