Oscar Douglas Washington (c. 1912 – 2004/05) was an American songwriter, guitarist, school teacher and record label owner.
[1] He is credited as co-writer of the jazz and rhythm and blues classic "Night Train",[2] and was also influential in the early career of Chuck Berry.
[7] In August 2005, human remains unearthed at a property in St Louis were tentatively identified as those of Oscar Washington, aged 93, who had not been seen for over a year.
Police had been looking for his son, Farand Washington, in connection with the cashing of Social Security checks made out to his father.
After Farand Washington was killed in a crash when he lost control of his car, and following an anonymous tip-off by a neighbor, police undertook a search of the family's property, where they found the buried remains.