Todd Alan Reed

On February 23, 2001, he pled guilty to the murders in order to avoid the death penalty, and was sentenced to three consecutive life terms. Reed was questioned about the two 1987 Gresham murders, as he met every criteria for the suspect's description, but to this day, he has yet to be charged with either of them. As of June 2020, it is unclear in which prison Todd Alan Reed is housed in, or even if he's still alive.

By the age of 14, Reed was a registered sex offender and was put in a residential program for his crimes, but, as he wasn't considered dangerous, he was released. In the following years, Reed met Gail Bennett in 1986, whom he would later marry in 1988. Reed and Bennet had two children, and, after Bennet divorced Reed in 1997, Reed was ordered to pay child support and granted visitation.

According to the Gresham Police Department, the suspect in both of these cases was described as a white male in his late teens to early 20s, with very dark, short hair, thick eyebrows and little beard hairs along the chin line. He wore military-type glasses with metal frames and a stud-type earring in his left ear, and apparently drove a car described as a metallic blue-colored 1970s model Dodge Charger. Capt. Gerald Johnson noted in a written statement that the man was likely acquainted with the girls or their circle of friends, as he was seen calling out to Tchir by name at a convenience store on the day of her disappearance.

Todd Alan Reed (born 1967), known as The Forest Park Killer, is an American serial killer and sex offender who raped and strangled three homeless women in Portland, Oregon between April and June 1999, later dumping their bodies in the Forest Park reserve. He was convicted of these deaths and received three terms of life imprisonment, and remains the sole suspect in two similar murders that occurred in nearby Gresham, in 1987.

Reed was born Todd Alan Thomas on May 22, 1967, in Portland, Oregon, to Ronnie Thomas and Marine Sgt. Alfred Thomas, who had married nine days prior. They had another son prior to their divorce in 1971. His mother Ronnie Thomas would subsequently remarry Robert Reed, who adopted Reed and his brother, and the two later divorced when Reed was 12.