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Eggleston, Katie August 2,1993; Oregon 22 YO
Topic Started: Aug 24 2006, 12:52 PM (1,899 Views)
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Katheryn Scott Eggleston


Above: Eggleston, circa 1993


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: August 2, 1993 from Portland, Oregon
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: May 4, 1971
Age: 22 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 125 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Blonde hair, blue eyes. Eggleston's nickname is Katie and many accounts refer to her by that name.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A purple blazer, a white blouse, a black skirt, stockings and heeled shoes.


Details of Disappearance

Eggleston was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on August 2, 1993. She left her job selling long-distance services for Allnet Communication Services Inc. in Lake Oswego, Oregon. It was her first day on the job alone. That morning, she attended an meeting Allnet meeting and made sales calls at businesses on northeast Whitaker Way, and stopped at a bank, a gasoline station and a Burger King restaurant near Lloyd Center.
That afternoon, Eggleston made calls in the then-Port of Portland building in the 700 block of northeast Multnomah Street. Five witnesses at the building stated she looked "worried and preoccupied." At 2:15 p.m., a man to whom Eggleston had just made a sale saw her get off the building’s elevator in the company of a man wearing a blue blazer. He is described as having dark hair and a dark complexion. Eggleston has never been heard from again and the man she was last seen has never been identified.

Shortly before 5:00 p.m., a witness noticed a silver/gray Volkswagen Golf similar to Eggleston's parked in the port of Portland parking lot. Eggleston's supervisor was scheduled to meet her at 5:00 p.m. in Lake Oswego, but she never arrived for the meeting.

Eggleston's car was found by a security guard about 12:30 a.m. the day after she was last seen. The vehicle was in the parking lot of an industrial complex in the 12000 block of northeast Airport Way. The site is nine miles from the Port of Oregon building. Eggleston's vehicle was unlocked, its windows were rolled down, and the keys were in the ignition. Her purse and its contents were in the front seat and her workout clothes were in the back seat, but her Allnet binder was missing. There were no indications that a struggle had taken place.

Joel Patrick Courtney is considered a possible suspect in Eggleston's case. A photograph of him is posted below this case summary. He has a long history of criminal offenses, substance abuse and possible mental illness, and is awaiting trial for the kidnapping and rape of New Mexico college student and the kidnapping, rape and murder of Brooke Wilberger, who disappeared from Corvallis, Oregon in 2004. Her remains have not been found. Courtney has traveled extensively throughout his life; he is known to have been in Alaska, Florida, Arizona and Mexico in addition to Oregon and New Mexico. Authorities believe he has harmed other women besides Wilberger and Eggleston is considered a possible victim. Eggleston had just graduated college, and Wilberger was a college student when she disappeared. Both women have blonde hair and blue eyes, and they were in the same age bracket at the time of their disappearances. It should be emphasized that as of yet there is no solid evidence to tie Courtney to Eggleston.

Eggleston is not believed to have left of her own accord, as she has no history of mental illness or runaway behavior and she was close to her family, which includes her parents, three sisters and four nieces and nephews. She had recently graduated from Oregon State University, where she had been in a sorority and sought office. Foul play is suspected in Eggleston's case, which remains unsolved.



Above: Courtney


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Portland Police Bureau



Source Information
The Doe Network
The Oregonian



Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004.

Last updated September 17, 2006; height and weight added, name and distinguishing characteristics updated.

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Unsolved mystery: Missing Redmond woman's mom marks sad milestone
Was Katie Eggleston abducted? Did she run away? We may never know -
or maybe Net can help
By Barney Lerten, bend.com (barney@...)
Updated: Friday, May 4, 2001 6:58 PM
There are holes in the hearts of Heather and Paul Eggleston of
Redmond and three of their four daughters, ones that eight years of
unanswered questions have failed to heal.

And what of the fourth daughter? Ah, there's the rub – the gnawing,
lingering mystery that holds firm like a bad, unending dream in the
heads and hearts of friends and family. A mystery on display in a
most unusual place on Friday, the day that was – or possibly, would
have been – Katie Eggleston's 30th birthday.

Her smiling face peers out from the Obituaries page of The
Oregonian, a seemingly bad-humored, even morbid place to offer
anybody's wish for a happy birthday. But a page Heather Eggleston
always reads, hoping not to find her daughter's name, and yet,
perhaps to find closure.

Under the happy portrait and birthday wishes comes the statement
that only begins to explain the pain: "Your family and friends are
waiting to hear from someone who can tell them what happened to you
August 2, 1993 in Portland, Oregon."

"You are missed so much, Katie," the ad concludes, along with a
number, 1-800-536-7664. Call the number and you are connected to the
Katie Eggleston Hotline, and advised of a "$10,000 reward for
information on Katie's whereabouts or information leading to the
arrest and conviction of her abductors."

But was she kidnapped? Or perhaps, did she run away from her family,
a boyfriend, a life she was starting to build – a life that,
according to those who knew and loved her, did not include any
conflicts or things that would cause a young woman to vanish without
a trace?

Young woman's car turned up at Portland airport, wallet and keys
inside

On that fateful summer day, the 22-year-old recent Oregon State
University graduate was making the rounds in Portland on her sales
job for a phone firm, AllNet. She was last seen leaving a building
near the Lloyd Center shopping mall. Eggleston was staying with her
big sister until she could afford an apartment of her own. The
Redmond High graduate never came home that night.

The next day, her car – keys in the ignition and wallet inside – was
found parked at Portland International Airport. Searchers found few
other clues.

"And that's it," Katie's mom, Heather, said Friday.

She said the 30th birthday ad was her idea. "I always read" the
obituaries page, Heather Eggleston said. "I didn't used to, but
after Katie's disappearance, I also read the Metro section. About
once a year, on the obit page in The Oregonian, there is something
like that. They say, `So and so, we miss you,' or `May justice
prevail. I've had it in the back of my mind for a while to do this."

The family has done a lot more than that. As police tried to find
their daughter, the couple spent thousands of dollars on a private
investigator, who tracked every clue. A non-profit group was formed
by four friends, creating the Katie Eggleston Search Fund.

But something else has happened in those eight years. Recent OSU
grad Katie Eggleston disappeared just as something called the
Internet began to move out of the colleges and research labs and
into the general populace. Just as the World Wide Web was invented,
a technological development that has, among countless other good and
bad things, helped many people find lost relatives.

A search at http://www.whitepages.com finds two Katie Eggleston
listings, for example – one in Michigan, one in Wisconsin. Calls to
both numbers were not immediately returned.

Much has changed since disappearance – including the sprouting of
the Web

Paul Eggleston, a former Redmond school superintendent who now
publishes a Central Oregon Atlas through Cornwall Publications,
isn't really into the Net, his wife says, nor is she. So the word
from bend.com of at least two Katie Egglestons possibly out there,
today, is intriguing at least to the missing woman's mother.

"No, we've never heard of another" woman with the same name, she
said. "But in the last eight years, a lot of stuff has changed,
things we didn't have access to."

"There was a lot of publicity for a long time," Heather Eggleston
said. "The media was very good to us. By and large, they had a nice
respect."

The first years brought the most attention, of course. "We heard
from a lot of people," she said. "We heard from people we know and
people we didn't know and later got acquainted with. My husband – I
never thought I'd go out to his office and see him talking
comfortably with a psychic. We didn't hang up on anybody, because
you never know."

As the years passed, "things began to shake out into categories,"
the mother said. "One suggestion was that people would say, from
time to time, might Katie have had amnesia, had an accident, been
abducted and released – be okay but didn't know how to get home?

"We even had one of her young friends say – and it was so touching –
`Mrs. Eggleston, put a note in the paper that says, `Katie, it's
okay, you can come home now." Naïve, Heather Eggleston said, but "so
sweet."

Police and the private eye "interviewed everybody she'd ever known,"
Heather Eggleston said. "There was a very thorough investigation.
There was no falling out." Katie was the couple's second-youngest
daughter; their others are now 26 to 45 years old.

Web search finds a Dr. Katie Eggleston, another taking pharmacy
classes in Indiana

A search of Web sites for the missing woman's name proves just as
intriguing.

A Dr. Katie Eggleston, M.D., is a recent graduate of the Eau Claire,
Wis., Family Residency Program. And a Katie Eggleston is listed as a
pharmacy student and leader of the campus group Rho Chi in a
directory listing at Butler University in Indianapolis.

The Redmond Katie Eggleston's mom said that ironically, her own
mother, Katie's grandmother, grew up in the Eau Claire area. But she
said of Katie, "Science was not her long suit." Her majors at OSU
were English and graphic arts. She said Katie took the phone-company
job because, "A lot of kids do that when they get out of school –
they need to make some money. I thought maybe she would end up
working in an advertising agency. I always thought (about her)
teaching – she had a wonderful way with kids."

Heather Eggleston said she and her husband "thought about doing a
Web site" about their daughter's disappearance. "We have had people
offer to help to do it." It just hasn't happened.

"We have reconciled to the fact that she's probably no longer
alive," Heather Eggleston said. "I will say that process took
awhile. You can get to that point in your head before you do in your
heart. The bottom line on this, that has kept my whole family going,
is that I have no option. I can't let them go to pieces. I have
three other girls to take care of – well, not to take care of,
because they're all adults, but to be there for.

"So you can't just fall down in a heap." But life is forever
changed. To help explain it, Heather Eggleston paraphrased a recent
remark by the current Redmond schools Superintendent, Jerry Colonna,
who lost a son in a Colorado avalanche: "The mountains don't have
peaks any more."
Originally Posted: Friday, May 4, 2001
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Man draws scrutiny in '93 cold case
Crime - Portland reviews a woman's disappearance for ties to the
Wilberger suspect
Friday, February 24, 2006
ANNE SAKER and MAXINE BERNSTEIN
About six months ago, the parents of Katie Eggleston welcomed an FBI
agent into their Redmond home. The arrival gave the couple the first
hint in years that authorities might have uncovered a fresh clue in
the search for their missing daughter.

"I was surprised that an agent came all the way over here to do
that," Paul Eggleston said Thursday.

Portland police said Thursday that they are investigating whether
the man charged with the 2004 murder of Brooke Wilberger may have
been involved in the 1993 disappearance of Katie Eggleston, 22, in
Portland.

Joel Patrick Courtney, 39, who grew up in Beaverton, now awaits
trial on rape charges in New Mexico. When he was charged in July
with Wilberger's killing, law enforcement agencies in several states
re-examined their cold cases for possible connections to Courtney.

Last month, the FBI issued a bulletin saying it was investigating
whether Courtney killed three other victims in Oregon. On Thursday,
however, the FBI released another bulletin saying investigators have
eliminated Courtney as a suspect in two of those cases but that it
was still working with local authorities on a third case. The bureau
did not say whether any of the cases involved Eggleston.

Thursday, Portland police Sgt. Wayne Svilar, who heads the Cold Case
Unit, said Eggleston's disappearance is under review for links to
Courtney.

Eggleston, 22, of Gresham went missing Aug. 2, 1993, when she left a
travel agency in Northeast Portland. Her car was found near
Northeast 128th Avenue and Airport Way in Portland.

Svilar would not say that a firm tie to Courtney had been made in
Eggleston's case, but he said, "There are obvious similarities:
She's abducted. She's never found, and there are similarities in the
victims' appearances."

Eggleston, like Wilberger, was young, slender and blond,
characteristics that authorities say were common among Courtney's
victims.

In addition, the FBI said Courtney was in Portland in 1993.

Similar investigations in New Mexico have petered out. The district
attorney and an FBI spokesman in Albuquerque said they had not
turned up additional cases involving Courtney.

Police are not saying Courtney is the man responsible for
Eggleston's disappearance, and Svilar said the case remains under
investigation. An FBI agent is assigned to the Cold Case Unit and is
assisting.

But Eggleston's father, Paul, said Thursday, "We know more now than
we knew years ago. We're glad that somebody's looking into this."

Eggleston said an FBI agent visited him and his wife in their
Central Oregon home about six months ago to take samples of their
DNA. Eggleston would not discuss what he learned about his
daughter's disappearance that day or since.

Eggleston said he offered the agent the seven loose-leaf binders in
which the family has kept a log of everything they knew about the
case. Eggleston said he was just about to ask for the binders to be
returned when Svilar called him Thursday morning to alert him to the
FBI's bulletin.
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Staff writer Jeff Manning contributed to this story. Anne Saker: 503-
294-7656

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Unsolved
Can you help families find closure by providing information about one of these mysteries?
By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
Published: September 13. 2008 4:00AM PST
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Unsolved deaths


Unsolved deaths
1 – Judy Reeder
Last seen 2/1/1962

2 – Mary Jo Templeton
Found dead 4/30/1979

3 – John Talbott
Killed 7/7/1979

4 – Thomas Michael Gaines
Found dead 2/2/1986

5 – Jerry Dale Calhoun
Last seen 5/30/1999

6 – Susan Wickersham
Last seen 7/11/1973

7 – Baby Doe
Found dead 5/20/1986

8 – Angela Chan
Last seen 3/27/1989

9 – Ron Louis Nordstrom
Last seen 6/9/1999

10 – Corwin Osborn
Last seen 6/17/2001 near Devils Lake Trailhead

11 – Gary Alan Larsen
Last seen 9/16/2001

12 – Jackalin Thompson
Last seen 9/1/2001

13 – John Doe
Found dead 3/31/88

14 – James Phillip Brooks
Killed 9/20/1994 near Mitchell

15 – Shannon Elizabeth Rishel
Last seen 7/9/1995

16 – Danny Sweet
Found dead January 1996

17 – Katie Eggleston
Last seen 8/2/1993 in Portland





Right around this time every year, Haley Carson’s thoughts turn to a Culver mother of two whose death remains a mystery.

Working at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for the past 12 years, Carson has heard her fair share of sad stories.

But Jackalin Thompson disappeared on Carson’s birthday — Sept. 1 — seven years ago.

“At the time, our office was in the courthouse in the basement, and it was a much smaller space, and that’s where we hung her missing photo,” Carson said. “So we looked at that photo every day. And we don’t get a lot of missing people, who leave their baby in the middle of the night.”

Thompson’s husband, Steven Thompson, said his wife suffered from insomnia and sometimes went for a drive at night until she could fall asleep.

But that night, she walked away from her Minton Lane home to take a walk on Juniper Butte and never came back.

At the time, the Thompsons’ youngest daughter was just a year old.

Mushroom pickers found Jackalin Thompson’s remains 25 miles outside of Madras in May 2003, but the cause of her death remains undetermined.

“One of our detectives kept her photo hanging up for quite some time,” Carson said. “A photo of her and her baby.”

No matter how many years pass — or, in some cases decades — local investigators say they’ll never give up on a missing person or unsolved murder.

“We have a white board in our office where we put the names of these people, and we use it as a daily reminder to never forget them,” said Lt. Kevin Dizney, of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. “Families remain waiting to have closure on these cases, and that’s truly our goal.”

Dizney’s office has a squad of cold case volunteers — three part-time former detectives who spend two days a week retracing old leads and looking for new ones.

“In (one missing person case) they looked at every lead up to and including Ted Bundy and back, even though there was no objective link there,” Dizney said.

But more than a dozen missing persons and murder cases remain unsolved in Central Oregon, and investigators say keeping them in the public eye may be the key to finding out what happened to the missing and dead.

The following is a synopsis of each case based on information from earlier Bulletin reports and local authorities as well as whom to contact with information.


Bend Police Department

Detectives with the Bend Police Department have four unsolved murder cases open, one that dates back more than 45 years.


1 – Judy Reeder: Reeder was last seen the evening of Feb. 1, 1962 — the night before children playing in Drake Park found the body of the 17-year-old Bend High School homecoming princess under the footbridge in

4 inches of water.

Reeder had driven her ’55 Ford sedan downtown and parked along Riverside Boulevard at about 10 p.m. She was never seen alive again.

An autopsy showed she had been struck in the head 13 times, possibly with a two-by-four , but the murder weapon was never recovered.

Evidence at the scene showed that Reeder was dragged to an area near the rock retaining wall of the pond. Investigators never determined how she ended up in the water.

Plaster casts of tennis and hard-soled shoes were taken from the mud near her body.

Those who knew her best said Reeder had been depressed in the months leading up to her death and that her grades had been on the decline.

Reeder stood 5 feet 3 inches and had long brown hair and blue eyes. Police have interviewed more than 500 witnesses in the case, including a half-dozen former boyfriends, but have no solid leads.


2 – Mary Jo Templeton: Templeton’s dismembered body was discovered April 30, 1979, after a Pacific Power and Light employee found a human thigh on the grates above the turbines at the north end of Drake Park’s Mirror Pond.

A scuba team searched the area below the power station there and found additional body parts. The rest of her body was found several weeks later in the waters of Mirror Pond.

A state medical examiner found that Templeton’s body had been cut apart with a heavy knife. He estimated that her body had been in the water for a day or two when her thigh was found.

Her last known address was at the El-Rancho Motel in Redmond, and she had worked as a waitress and hostess in Redmond and Bend.

The last person to speak with Templeton was a friend in The Dalles whom she called April 26, 1979.

Templeton stood 5 feet 4 inches, weighed 110 pounds and often wore a black wig over her auburn hair.

In 1988, a detailed description of the murder was sent to the FBI’s violent crimes clearinghouse, which found the method of her killing matched four homicides in Missouri and two in Tennessee. Those murders remain unsolved.


3 – John C. Talbott: Talbott was shot, apparently randomly, on the night of July 7, 1979, while playing pool with his girlfriend at the Westside Tavern in Bend.

Talbott was standing near the back of the bar, holding a pool cue and a glass of wine when witnesses heard a loud pop at about 10:30 p.m. from the back door. Talbott, 49, fell backward and collapsed to the floor clutching his chest.

An autopsy showed that a .38-caliber shot through his lung killed him.

A woman near Talbott at the time of the shooting told authorities that she heard a car door slam and saw headlights come on at a nearby gas station but could not provide additional details.


4 – Thomas Michael Gaines: Gaines, 43, was found shot to death in the backyard of Gene Rhodes’ southeast Bend home on the evening of Feb. 2, 1986.

Rhodes noticed that a rock had been thrown through his bathroom window at about

10 p.m. and called police. He then grabbed a gun and his dog and searched the area around his home.

Rhodes found Gaines lying dead in his backyard.

Gaines had been shot in the chest, stomach and back with a .38-caliber gun.


Contact: Bend Police Department at 541-322-2960 or the after-hours nonemergency dispatch number, 541-693-6911.


Crook County Sheriff’s Office

5 – Jerry Dale Calhoun: Calhoun’s wife was the last person to see him before he disappeared from his Prineville home on May 30, 1999.

Calhoun’s brother found his blue 1990 Subaru wagon on U.S. Highway 26 about 30 miles west of Maupin near Mount Hood on June 5, 1999. His family reported him missing and search teams from Wasco and Clackamas counties canvassed the area.

Calhoun, who would now be 53, has never been found.

Calhoun was reportedly depressed before he disappeared and had gone missing for days at a time in the past.

Calhoun is white with brown hair and eyes and stands 6 feet 10 inches tall. He weighed 165 pounds when he was last seen. He has scars on his chin and shoulder.


Contact: Crook County Sheriff’s Office at 541-447-6398.


Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office

6 – Susan Wickersham: A 17-year-old Bend High student when she disappeared July 11, 1973, Wickersham was last seen walking in the downtown Bend area.

Wickersham had dropped her mother’s car off at the Sage Room Restaurant next to the Tower Theatre around 11:30 p.m. She was expecting a friend to pick her up but left on foot when the friend didn’t arrive.

Investigators have been told that she started out walking toward the Owl Rexall Drug on Wall Street, north of the theater. They now believe that she may have decided to walk to the Deschutes River Woods area.

Most of Wickersham’s remains were found three years later near what is now a truck weigh station on the east side of U.S. Highway 97 near Deschutes River Woods . A man out looking for firewood found Wickersham’s skull, which showed she had been shot once in the head.

Investigators searched the area and found most of her skeleton, but have not solved the murder case.


7 – Baby Doe: On May 20, 1986, a garbage collector working in the Terrebonne area found the decapitated body of a newborn baby girl in a trash bin near Fergusons Market .

The infant was a full-term white baby with brown hair. She weighed 9 pounds and was 22 inches long and was estimated to be between 12 and 24 hours old when she was killed.

Based on evidence at the scene, investigators believe the baby was murdered within 42 hours of her body’s discovery.


8 – Angela Lynn Chan: Chan was last seen alive by her husband, Bruce Chan, who reported dropping her off at their Redmond home on March 27, 1989.

Bruce Chan was on leave for the Easter weekend from his Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif. He told investigators the couple had spent the day trap shooting in an area off state Highway 126.

Angela Chan’s yellow Datsun B-210 was found along the highway near Dry Canyon two days after she disappeared. Her purse and shoes were in the car, which had fuel in the tank.

Chan, who would now be 38, is white with blond hair and blue eyes. She stands 5 feet 2 inches and weighed 120 pounds when she was last seen.

Bruce Chan has since moved back to California, and detectives have not received any new information about her disappearance since July 2003.


9 – Ron Louis Nordstrom: Nordstrom was last seen at his home on Yucca Avenue in Redmond on June 9, 1999.

Nordstrom, who would now be 55, took off on his blue mountain bike and was reported missing by his family five days later.

Nordstrom is white and stands 5 feet 11 inches, with brown hair and eyes. He weighed 150 pounds at the time of his disappearance.


10 – Corwin Charles Osborn: Osborn, of Bellevue, Wash., left from the Devils Lake Trailhead the morning of June 17, 2001, to hike North, Middle and South Sister.

He was last seen by a hiker who passed him on the trail to the summit of South Sister around 7 a.m. — about one hour after he left for the hike. Nordstrom, who would now be 52, had a one-day supply of water and food.

He was scheduled to meet his 76-year-old father at Lava Camp around 9 p.m. that day but never returned from the hike.

Osborn is white with brown hair and blue eyes, stands

5 feet 11 inches and weighed 150 pounds when he disappeared.

Search and rescue volunteers scoured 150 miles of the surrounding wilderness area in the week after Osborn failed to return from the hike, but found nothing.


11 – Gary Alan Larsen: Larsen was last seen by friends with whom he had breakfast at Shari’s Restaurant in Redmond on Sept. 16, 2001. The group had been out all night and reportedly spent part of the evening at the Fireside Grille and Lounge.

He had been living with his mother, who reported him missing Sept. 27. Larsen, who would now be 35, drove a white 1995 Dodge pickup with license plate number XTN945. The truck has never been recovered.

He associated with individuals who were known drug users, Lt. Dizney said, but after many interviews, investigators have not linked any of his friends to Larsen’s disappearance.

Larsen worked at Hap Taylor & Sons Inc. — now Knife River Corp. — and had many acquaintances in the Redmond area. Larsen is white with brown hair and eyes, and stands 6 feet

3 inches. He weighed 210 pounds before he disappeared.


Contact: Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office detectives division at 541-617-3393 or the after-hours nonemergency dispatch line at 541-693-6911.


Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office

12 – Jackalin Ann Thompson: The last person to see 28-year-old Jackalin Thompson alive was her husband, Steven Thompson.

He told authorities that she left their Culver home around

1:30 a.m. Sept. 1, 2001, to go for a walk on Juniper Butte.

She never came home.

Steven Thompson later told investigators that he did not go after her because he was watching their two young children. He reported her missing Sept. 2.

In May 2003, mushroom pickers found Jackalin Thompson’s remains 25 miles southwest of Madras. Because of extensive decomposition, authorities could not determine the cause or manner of death.

Steven Thompson has said his wife had some enemies in the Portland area but officials have not been able to piece together the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.


Contact: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at 541-475-6520.


Oregon State Police, Bend office

13 – John Doe: On March 31, 1988, an off-duty Oregon State Trooper and his wife were hiking below some rimrock south of Prineville when they came across skeletal remains of a white male.

Near the bones were a pack of Canadian cigarettes, a cap with a short bill and a large Jack Daniels belt buckle.

The remains have never been identified.


14 – James Phillip Brooks: Brooks, 23, originally of Prineville, was killed instantly when a high-powered rifle shot hit him square in the chest as he stood on a rocky outcropping on ranch property 18 miles northeast of Mitchell.

The Mitchell ranch hand and former rodeo competitor was murdered Sept. 20, 1994, the first murder in 50 years in remote Wheeler County.

He was last seen riding a horse from the Fopiano Ranch where he worked into rugged, wooded terrain. The horse he was riding and a dog that accompanied him returned to the ranch that night.

Brooks’ body was discovered two days later on a piney ridge that runs along the north side of a valley known as Waterman Flat , two miles from any road on the 30,000-acre ranch.

Police questioned three bow hunters who were in the area illegally and loggers working on adjacent land.

No arrests have been made.


15 – Shannon Elizabeth Rishel: A Redmond mother of two, Rishel was reported missing by her boyfriend July 9, 1995, when she was 25.

Jeff Gilmore, of Bend, told investigators the two had been driving on a dirt road near the Columbia River town of Rufus when Rishel’s white Camaro became high-centered.

Gilmore said he fell asleep and when he woke up the next morning, Rishel was gone.

Authorities found the clothing Gilmore said she was wearing as well as her purse, identification and cigarettes inside the car. Gilmore, then 20, told investigators that Rishel had a change of clothes with her on the night she disappeared.

The area where Rishel’s car was found is bordered by 800-foot cliffs and officials have speculated that Rishel may have wandered off and fallen.

Investigators combed the area and an air search was conducted. Diving teams also searched two small ponds but turned up nothing.

16 – Danny Sweet: In January 1996, two antler hunters stumbled across the Prineville resident’s skeletal remains in a forest eight miles northeast of Mount Vernon, solving a three-year-old missing persons case.

The Crook County High School graduate was reported missing on Jan. 2, 1993, by Mitchell residents who were the last to see him. He was 31 years old when he disappeared.

Authorities believe they know who killed him and have been reticent to discuss Sweet’s disappearance, the cause of his death or any other aspects of the case.


Contact: Oregon State Police, Bend office at 541-388-6213.


Portland Police Bureau

17 – Katie E ggleston: Eggleston, who was born and raised in Redmond, was last seen Aug. 2, 1993, after making a sales presentation at a business near Lloyd Center in northeast Portland that afternoon.

The 22-year-old Oregon State University graduate had only been working for her employer, Allnet Communications, for a few months.

When her car was found at the center by a security guard shortly after midnight, it was unlocked, the keys were in the ignition and Eggleston’s purse was on the seat. But a search of the car and the surrounding area gave no clues as to Eggleston’s fate.

Her passport, which she had taken from home a few weeks earlier, has never been found and investigators have no solid leads in the case.


Contact: Portland Police Bureau Missing Person’s Unit at 503-823-0446

Cindy Powers can be reached at 541-617-7812 or cpowers@bendbulletin.com.

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Lauran

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