Deborah "Debe" Atrops: If Anything Happens to Me | Beaverton, Oregon

PNW Haunts & Homicides · Jun 11, 2026 · 1h 28m · transcript

In November 1988, Deborah "Debe" Atrops left a hair appointment in Tigard, Oregon and never came home. When she was found — what investigators discovered would haunt Washington County for decades.

Debe was 30 years old. She was a mother to an eight-month-old daughter. She had told a friend: "If anything happens to me, Bob did it."

It would take decades, a new cold case unit, and a trial that raised as many questions as it answered to bring this case into a courtroom.

But the Washington County Sheriff's Office still lists her case as unsolved on their website. The conviction is under appeal…