Husband Missing After Dismembered Wife and Beaten Infant Found Floating in River
Ashok Narain’s whereabouts remain a mystery 37 years after the brutal murder of his pregnant wife, Raj, and daughter, Kamnee.
On September 11, 1987, three fishermen found a torso on the north fork of the Lewis River near Woodland, Washington. It had been in the water for about a week. A few days later, the legs belonging to the torso were discovered in the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
The remains were that of an adult female who had been murdered and then dismembered. She had been two months pregnant at the time of her death.
The woman wore a sheer nylon two-piece pink teddy and blue-green Hanes underwear. Her fingernails and toenails were painted red, and she had two thin silver bangles on her wrist.
Two weeks later, a fisherman found the body of a baby caught in a snarl of driftwood in the Cowlitz River near Longview, Washington. The little girl had died of blunt force trauma to the head. Dubbed Baby Jane Doe, she wore a pink t-shirt, a cloth diaper with pink plastic pins, plastic pants, and terry-cloth shorts.
Authorities suspected that the victims were mother and daughter, but the investigation was short-lived due to the lack of leads, and the case went cold. The bodies were buried next to each…
