On Wednesday, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office disclosed that an Oregon man killed himself last month after being examined by police in connection with a 1983 homicide.

70-year-old Randal “Randy” McEvers was found dead on February 8. Detectives were looking into McEvers as a possible suspect in the demise of his wife, Nancy. Later that year, investigators established that the shooting was not a suicide but abandoned the homicide investigation in August due to a lack of new leads. The investigation went cold until last year when detectives reexamined the evidence and interviewed twenty individuals. The Oregonian claimed that McEvers had become a suspect and that deputies were turning him over to prosecutors at the time he committed suicide.