On an autumn day in 1987, the life of 38-year-old John Harold Schiermeister, a male transient from Roseburg, Oregon, came to a brutal and tragic end. On October 5th, Schiermeister was in a railway yard in Portland, drinking with a man named Andrew David Edwards. In an alcohol-fueled rage, Edwards turned on Schiermeister, beating him to death with a fatal blow to the head. The following day, workers at the Burlington Northern Railroad yard discovered Schiermeister's body. Although he was identifi
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