Overview

🔎 Case Overview

– Name: Debora Lynette Longoria (sometimes seen as Debora Lynett Longoria)
– Location of incident: Portland, Oregon
– Date found: December 10, 1987
– Case status: Unsolved homicide / cold case

🧑‍⚖️ What Happened

– On December 10, 1987, the partially decomposed body of Debora Lynette Longoria was discovered inside a motel room (Room 424) at the Clifford Hotel in southeast Portland.
– Staff entered the apartment after tenants complained about a foul odor coming from inside.
– An autopsy concluded her death was caused by an assault with a blunt instrument—indicating she was killed by someone using a heavy object or weapon.

Detailed Case Breakdown

🔎 Case Overview

– Name: Debora Lynette Longoria (sometimes seen as Debora Lynett Longoria)
– Location of incident: Portland, Oregon
– Date found: December 10, 1987
– Case status: Unsolved homicide / cold case

🧑‍⚖️ What Happened

– On December 10, 1987, the partially decomposed body of Debora Lynette Longoria was discovered inside a motel room (Room 424) at the Clifford Hotel in southeast Portland.
– Staff entered the apartment after tenants complained about a foul odor coming from inside.
– An autopsy concluded her death was caused by an assault with a blunt instrument—indicating she was killed by someone using a heavy object or weapon.

📌 Case Status

– Unsolved: The homicide remains open as a cold case, and no confirmed arrest or conviction has been publicly reported.
– Law enforcement has periodically sought tips or new information from the public to help identify a suspect.

🧠 Additional Context

Online mentions (e.g., cold case directories) generally categorize this as an unsolved murder, not a known conviction or sentencing.


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Twenty-two-year-old Debora Lynnette Longoria was found murdered in Portland, Oregon on December 10th, 1987. 39 years later her case remains open and unsolved.

On December 10th, 1987, tenants of the Clifford Hotel located at 527 SE Morrison complained of a foul smell coming from room 428. The manager, checking on the complaints, had to force the door open. Inside room 424 he found the body of young Debora Longoria. She’d been beaten about the head and stuffed in the closet. Cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head. Debora was identified via fingerprints. Newspapers at the time reported that the room was registered to a Timothy Cloud, a 63-year-old white man who was a registered sex offender in Texas. Timothy was 5’7 and 160 lbs at the time, balding brown hair, and tattoos on his right arm and shoulder. He was last known to be in Tennessee in 2007. It’s likely Timothy is now deceased but police would like to speak to anyone who knew Timothy Cloud in regards to Debora’s murder.

Debora, also known as Debbie, was born May 7th, 1965 in Portland, Oregon to Daniel Longoria and Sandra Schaer. She has two siblings, Moses and Natasha. Debbie went on to attend Madison High School in Portland. At the time of her murder Debbie was struggling with substance use disorder and was working as an exotic dancer. Debora is deeply missed.

Please contact the Portland Cold Case Homicide Unit at 503-823-0400, referencing case # 87-124181, with any information in the murder of young Debora Lynnette Longoria.

Few official public records or news articles detail suspects or prosecution developments.