Willamette Week reports. Detectives think she died about two weeks earlier.Hart had been featured in a Willamette Week story in June about Portland residents living in motels “as a last resort before homelessness,” the paper notes.
She had been experiencing housing insecurity since her transition in 2016. She said she had lost her construction business and her home, and had become estranged from most of her family due to the transition.She and her 13-year-old son, Caleb, “had bounced from a women’s shelter and a friend’s apartment into motels,” according to Willamette Week.