PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Clackamas County investigators are still on the hunt for a suspected con man whose criminal activity has gone back more than fifty years.

For decades, Leonard Weston Ramey Jr. has been called a master con artist who has always slipped through investigators' fingers.

Every few years, detectives with the CCSO post a video with Detective Jim Strovink, one of the lead investigators looking for Ramey. They believe, after all of these years, someone knows something. 

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"Among his victims are his own family members, including his own mother and father," Detective Strovink reminds people every year. 

According to investigators, Ramey has 15 aliases, including: Eric Radcliff, Ron Radcliff, Ronald Eric Hollisen, Ronald E. Hollisen, Ronald Hallison, Ron Henderson, Ronald E. Henderson, Eric Ronald Henderson, Eric Henderson, Ken Dwight, Kenneth Walden, Hafoc Yates, Lenord R. Ramey, Leonard R. Ramey, Leonard Weston Ramey, Jr.

Images of Leonard Weston Ramey Jr. (file, courtesy FBI).

Officials say he claims to be a stockbroker, a company owner, and a financial marketing expert. He also portrays himself as a lawyer.

"He is a law school graduate. However, Ramey never successfully passed his bar examination," Detective Strovink said. "Ramey carefully generates elaborate but fake account statements, making it look like his victims are turning a profit. His schemes generally continue until the victim either requests a large withdrawal or tax forms for income tax filings. At that point, Leonard Ramey disappears. His investment plan never existed. Officials say he takes people's money, takes their trust, and destroys their lives."

It's crimes like these that landed the now 80-year-old on the FBI's "most wanted" list. They also believe he's a suspect in a crime spree dating back to the 1970s. 

"He'd be friends, his victims, often using a fake name, and tells them he's an investor who can make them large sums of money in the stock market," Strovink said.

That's exactly what happened to Michael Timm. KOIN 6 News spoke to him in June of 2006. It's then that he said when he and his family lived in Wilsonville, they gave Ramey $300,000 to invest in the stock market. But they accuse Ramey of taking the money and skipping town. 

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"He was just a personable guy, everything about him would point to a guy that would be a really successfully whatever," Timm said. 

In their years of investigating, detectives have learned a lot about their suspect.

"He walks with a slight shovel, and on his right leg there is a large scar. He is known to wear a horsehead ring on his left ring finger...He's been described as having an offensive body odor, and is reported to not care for secondhand cigarette smoke," Strovink said. "His family resides in California and reportedly hasn't seen him since 1986. He also left behind a common-law wife and child in Oregon, where Ramey was last spotted by a relative eating breakfast at a restaurant in the Lake Tahoe area in 2003."

Anyone with information concerning the whereabouts of Leonard Weston Ramey should contact their local FBI office. They can also contact the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Tip Line at 503-723-4949 or via online.

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