Ashok Kumar Narain - Murder of wife & daughter - CA-OR-W
Husband, father sought in mother-daughter killing Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:21 PM PDT KELSO, Wash. (AP) — A woman and child whose remains were found in three different rivers 20 years ago have been identified with DNA evidence, and the husband and father is being sought, Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday. Relatives of Ashok Kumar Narain say he has not been seen since several months after his wife, Raj Narain, 24 at the time, and their 14-month-old daughter, Kamnee Koushal Narain, disappeared, Deputy Charles J. Rosenzweig wrote in a news release. Detectives from the sheriff’s office and police in Eugene, where the Fiji islanders were living in 1987, have been searching for Ashok Narain for a year, Rosenzweig said. “We want to keep an open mind about why he’s disappeared,” Rosenzweig told The Daily News of Longview, “We and the families, both his and hers. No one has been able to locate him.” Three fishermen found Raj Narain’s torso in the Lewis River near Woodland on Sept. 11, 1987. A few days later, her legs were found in the Willamette River in Portland, and on Sept. 24 a fisherman found the toddler’s body floating in the Cowlitz River near the confluence with the Columbia River. Investigators were largely stymied until April 2006, when Robert Narayan of Woodland, Calif., called Kelso police and said his brother, Ashok Narain, had been missing since April of 1988 and that his brother’s wife and daughter also had vanished, Rosenzweig said. Narayan said his call was prompted by his discovery in an Internet search of an article published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that mentioned the unsolved deaths in 2003. DNA samples showed the woman and child were mother and daughter and were related to Raj Narain’s siblings, Rosenzweig said. Detectives have traveled throughout Washington, Oregon and California and have found several people named Ashok Narain, but none have been the person detectives are looking for. He is now listed in the National Crime Information Center database as a missing person. http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2007/09/27/news/doc46fab88ce7551379439439.txt

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/i...0540.xml&coll=7 DNA tests find IDs in 20-year cold case Mysterious killings - Samples from relatives prove the Eugene victims were mother and daughter Wednesday, September 26, 2007JOSEPH ROSE The Oregonian Staff Twenty years after the bodies of a slain woman and a baby were found in separate southwest Washington rivers, police using DNA evidence have linked the pair as mother and daughter. Cowlitz County authorities identified them Tuesday as Raj Narain, 24, a Fiji Islander who was living in Eugene at the time of her death, and 14-month-old Kamnee Koushal Narain. While investigators finally solved the mystery of the victims' identities, they have yet to make an arrest in what had long been filed away as a cold case. Police said they want to question the woman's husband, who has not been seen since early 1988. Fishermen found Raj Narain's headless and legless body in the Lewis River downstream from Woodland, Wash., on Sept. 11, 1987. Her legs were later found in the Willamette River in Portland. Nearly two weeks later, a fisherman found the baby's body floating in the Cowlitz River near Longview, Wash. There were no reports of missing infants matching the appearance of the baby girl, police said. Although the detectives suspected the woman and baby were related, several leads turned up nothing and the case languished until last year, authorities said. In April 2006, Robert Narayan of Woodland, Calif., called the Kelso, Wash., Police Department and said he had been looking for his brother, Ashok Kumar Narain, for several years. Ashok Narain had been missing since April 1988, the man said. So had Ashok's wife, Raj Narain, and their baby, Kamnee Narain, Narayan told police. The family had been living in Eugene when they disappeared, he said. Narayan said he was prompted to call police after coming across a newspaper story about the unsolved cases on the Internet. Police took DNA samples from several of Raj Narain' s relatives, sending them with samples from the victims to a University of North Texas lab. Tests confirmed that the woman and baby were mother and daughter and that they were related to Raj Narain's biological family. Raj and Ashok came to the United States from Fiji. Detectives have traveled throughout Washington, Oregon and California, trying to locate Ashok. They've found numerous people named Ashok Kumar Narain, but none of them is the Ashok Narain that family and detectives are seeking, Cowlitz County authorities said. Ashok Narain remains listed in the National Crime Information Center database as a missing person. Anyone with information on this case is encouraged to call Kelso Police Detective Damon Blain at 360-423-1270, Cowlitz County Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Joe Reiss at 360-577-3092, Eugene Police Detective Matt Herbert at 541-682-5174 or Crime Stoppers of Cowlitz County at 360-423-1206. Joseph Rose: 503-221-8029; josephrose@news.oregonian.com