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Edward Lee Jeffery

             On December 22, 1986, Edward Jeffery was shot and killed as he returned home from his job as comptroller of Eoff Electric Supply Co. in Salem, Oregon. His vehicle was found about a half-mile from the site of the murder, the engine running and the headlights on. Jeffery's wife found his body lying on the driveway and reported the murder to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Initial investigators developed several leads in the 1980s, but no arrest was made and no specific suspect in the shooting was developed. Eventually, investigative leads were exhausted, and the case went cold.

Case Update
April 2008

            In the spring of 2007, Cold Case Squad investigators began a review of the Jeffery homicide case files. The case was reactivated, and investigation continued throughout 2007. Pursuit of previously undeveloped leads resulted in the identification of several people who had not been contacted during the initial investigation. Cold Case Squad detectives presented investigative findings to a Marion County Grand Jury in early 2008; the Grand Jury returned an indictment for murder against Patrick Gordon McCreary of Redmond, Oregon. In February 2008, McCreary was arrested by Cold Case Squad investigators at his place of employment in Bend, Oregon. As of early April 2008, McCreary was still in custody at the Marion County Jail awaiting trial on charges of murder.



Patrick Gordon McCreary

January, 2009

    After spending nearly one year in the Marion County Jail, Patrick McCreary changed his plea from "Not Guilty" to "Guilty" during a hearing in front of Judge Hart on January 16, 2009. Reading to the court from a prepared statement, McCreary took responsibility for the murder, admitting his role as the trigger-man.

    On January 26, 2009, acting under the sentencing guidelines in place for crimes committed in 1986, Judge Hart sentenced Patrick McCreary to life in prison with a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years. Within days of his sentencing, McCreary was delivered into the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections, where he remains today.

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