A 65-year-old Oregon man and convicted murderer has been arrested in connection with a 1974 double-murder of two teenagers, a case that went cold after ballistic evidence could not be linked to any suspects at the time.
Steven Paul Criss was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of second-degree murder in the Oct. 3, 1974, shooting deaths of 16-year-old Donald Bartron and 18-year-old Peter Zito Jr., in a recreation center parking lot in the Oak Hills community just west of Portland, the Washington County Sheriff's Office announced in aBartron and Zito Jr. were both shot multiple times in the head with a 0.22 caliber gun while working on a 1956 Oldsmobile, the sheriff's office said.
However, Criss' gun became the center of an investigation into another shooting death less which occurred about two years later. In 1976, Criss joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to Fort Lewis in Washington state, the sheriff's office said. In October of 1976, his commanding officer, Sgt. Jacob"Kim" Brown, was shot and killed. Investigators determined that Criss used that same gun to shoot and kill Brown, Povolny said Friday.
Recently, Washington County detectives decided to take another look at the ballistic testing that was performed on that same gun 50 years ago in unsolved murders of Zito and Bartron. After submitting the evidence to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, investigators received notice that Criss' gun was a presumptive match.
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