One of the victims of Sunday’s grocery store shooting in Bend, Oregon, was a store employee who “died heroically” trying to disarm the 20-year-old gunman. Ethan Blair Miller shot and killed Safeway customer Glenn Edward Bennett, 84, in the front of the store before encountering employee Donald Ray Surrett Jr. in the back. “This is …
Three people are dead after a gunman opened fire at an Oregon grocery story Sunday night. The suspected shooter is one of the dead, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said, according to the Central Oregon News. Krantz said the gunman apparently came into the Forum Shopping Center parking lot from a residential area behind the …
An Oregon woman reported missing last week was found dead this week in a landfill. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said that 27-year-old Kaylee Birdzell was reported missing by her sister on August 5, according to KOIN. Two days later, court documents say, deputies got an anonymous call saying that Birdzell’s ex-boyfriend, 31-year-old Fabian Albert …
An Idaho woman and her teen daughter with special needs, who had not been seen since leaving for a camping trip on June 30, have been found dead from an apparent murder-suicide. Dawna Roe, 52, and Gabrielle Roe, 16, were last seen in their van heading west on Interstate 84 near Fruitland, as CrimeOnline previously …
An Oregon man has been arrested on kidnapping, sexual abuse, and rape charges after investigators found a 13-year-old Canadian girl with him over the weekend. Canadian police said on Saturday they planned to charge Noah Madrano, 40, with child luring as well, CBC reported. The teen was reported missing on June 24 when she failed …
Self-published romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the murder of her chef husband at his downtown Portland workplace in 2018. Crampton Brophy, 71, would be eligible for parole after serving 25 years, KGW reported. She was found guilty of second degree murder on May 25 at the …
An Oregon jury on Wednesday found self-published romance novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy guilty of killing her husband, a chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute, in 2018. Crampton-Brophy, 71, faces 25 years to life in prison after the conviction on a second degree murder charge. Sentencing is set for June 13, KOIN reported. Closing arguments were delivered …
Oregon police have charged a 16-year-old boy with the death of a sixth-grader found dead in a park near her Beaverton home earlier this month. Milana Li, 13, was reported missing on May 9 and was initially thought to be a runaway, as CrimeOnline previously reported. But police found her body the next day in …
It’s unclear, however, if the judge in Nancy Crampton-Brophy’s murder trial will allow the one-time cellmate to testify.
An Oregon mother appeared in court Monday on charges that she killed her 3-year-old daughter. Police who pulled over Rebekah Gasperino for a traffic violation early Saturday morning said they learned as they spoke with her that “she may be a danger to herself or others” and immediately dispatched officers to check on the well-being …
The murder trial of a self-published romance novelist accused of killing her husband has been paused because of a COVID-19 exposure in the courtroom. Nancy Crampton-Brophy, 71, was arrested in 2018 for the fatal shooting of her husband, 63-year-old chef Dan Brophy, at the Oregon Culinary Institute where he worked, as CrimeOnline has previously reported. …
A Portland State University student surrendered to police in his hometown and was taken back to Portland to face murder charges in the death of another student. Amara Marluke, 19, was shot and killed in downtown Portland early Monday morning, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. The suspect, 20-year-old Keenan Harpole, turned himself in to Deschutes County …
