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On Thanksgiving Day 1987, residents of Neskowin, a small town on the North Oregon Coast, discovered the savagely murdered body of Alain Malessard, a French citizen, in a closed, U.S. Forest Service campground. ‘Old-Growth Murder’ retraces Malessard’s five-month journey across North America, interviewing a number of family friends, as well as the countless Oregon authorities that handled the yearlong investigation.