The Spicer Family

A few weeks ago, we had a booth at Troutdale’s First Friday. I love being a booth bitch, Josh loves….helping me. 

While we’ve always had a good time at the bigger events, like CrimeCon, it was SO much fun speaking with our neighbors, talking about true crime. What was surprising, but shouldn’t have been, was how many people mentioned cases I had never heard of! Names and stories were coming at us left and right. 

It was during one of these conversations, with new friend of the show, Jill, we learned about a disturbing case I was shocked had never been on my radar. She asked if we knew about the young girl who had been thrown off a cliff into the Clackamas River. We hadn’t, and it piqued my interest. 

When I was first researching the case, I wasn’t sure there would be enough for an entire episode. Then, I kept pulling the thread and it led me down an unexpected path. What I thought would be a case about a young woman’s murder, led me to her heartbreaking background: which included another murder and a devastated mother left houseless. This is the story of the Spicer family.

To watch the interview with Donna and Dan:

https://www.koin.com/video/elderly-and-evicted-one-gresham-womans-struggle/1723672

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Donna in her home, speaking with Dan Tilkin

Donna talking about the life she may have had, if her two children hadn't been murdered.

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Donna and Lamar's apartment complex

Freshman year, Gresham High, 1977- Classmates

Junior Year, Gresham High, 1979- Classmates

Donna Spicer on the Gresham Cheer Team

Deborah Spicer

Footage from the river where Debbie was found and the cliff she was thrown from

Location of the cliff Debbie was thrown from.

Donna Spicer remembers her daughter, pictured in the photograph on a nearby table, during an interview at her Gresham apartment Monday. - The Oregonian, Roger Jensen

Green Bay police officers Keith Selissen, in uniform, and Ken Gehn help suspect Randy Bockorny into a squad car as Officer Jim Swanson watches Bockorny and his wife, Debra, were arrested Thursday at the Titletown Motel, 1704 S. Ashland Ave. on suspicion of murder in Oregon. - Press-Gazette photo by Ken Wesely

Randy and Debra Lynn Bockorny in court

Sophomore Year, Gresham High, 1979- Classmates

Scott Spicer, in happier days

The neighborhood where Scott was shot and killed

Scott's body being taken away

Randy McCormick, accidental killer of Scott Spicer

The Oregonian Oct 9 1989- Stabbing, fall killed woman - Elderly and evicted: One Gresham woman's struggle - Elderly and evicted: Donna still looking for new home -Evicted elderly woman finds new apartment - Deborah Sue Spicer (1962-1989) - Find a Grave Memorial - State v. Bockorny :: 1993 :: Oregon Court of Appeals Decisions - State v. Bockorny - The Oregonian April 10 1991 - Tearful defendant says husband forced her to assault woman - The Oregonian- Feb. 21 1991 County Jury Rejects Death Sentence  - Green Bay Press Gazette- Oct. 27 1989Oregon murder suspects arrested here - The Evening Telegram October 28 1989- Couple held in Oregon slaying - The Oregonian Feb. 12 1991- Bockorny found guilty in death - The Oregonian April 13 1991- Debra Bockrony guilty of murdering woman - The Oregonian April 3 1991- Woman told to stab, lawyer says - The Oregonian Oct. 27 1989- Man, Wife arrested in cliff death - The Oregonian June 6 1990- Legal issues delay couple's trial in killing of Gresham woman - The Oregonian- July 11 1990 Judge okays separate death trials - Debbie Spicer's last double - Wausau Daily Herald June 13 1973- Marathon County Court - Wausau Daily Herald June 15 1973 Serviceman is charged - Wausau Daily Herald June 18 1973 Bound over for trial - Wausau Daily Herald July 2 1973- Two plead innocent - Daily Citizen Feb. 11 1978- 10 Inmates Arraigned - The Bulletin Oct. 17 1989 Coule sought in woman's death - Daily Citizen April 7 - 1979 Fines given, hearings set in county court - The Oshkosh Northwestern Nov. 25 1980- Institute escape reported - The Oregonian Oct. 17 1989- Police hunt couple in killing of woman - Gresham High School 1978 - Baker City Herald Oct. 9 1989 Fishermen watch as body is dumped in river - The Bulletin Oct. 9 1989 Woman stabbed before cliff plunge - East Oregonian Oct. 9 1989 woman's body hurled off cliff - The Oregonian Oct. 10 1989- Police hunt 2 in woman's cliffside killing - The Sunday Oregonian Aug 9 1998- Prortland man shot in front of house of ex-girlfriend - STATE v. McCORMICK (2002) - Oregon - Green Bay Press Gazette Nov. 21 1989- Man fights extradition to Oregon - The Register Guard Dec 30 1989- Innocent Plea Entered in Slaying - Newspapers.com The Oregonian Aug. 15 1998 - The Oregonian - Aug. 13 2017- Change the trajectory of our youth's lives - Fundraiser for Rhonda Banks by Danetta Banks : Lamar Horsley- Hospital-Expenses - Pair get prison in shooting of Gresham boy, 9, and his mother - oregonlive.com - Brutal gang shooting costs 9-year-old his eye, haunts investigators: Tom Hallman - oregonlive.com - Boy, mother hurt in targeted Gresham shooting - Oregon Offender Search - Newspapers.com The Oregonian April 18 1991- Brockorny gets life without parole - Oregon Metro- Donna Spicer - The Oregonian May 20 1999 - STATE v. McCORMICK (2002) - Oregon