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Murder of Brooke Wilberger. Brooke Carol Wilberger (February 20, 1985 – May 25, 2004) was an American student from the state of Oregon who was abducted and later murdered. Her disappearance was covered by the national media; her murder investigation was one of the most publicized in Oregon's history. [1][2] Joel Patrick Courtney ultimately ...
1947-04-15. Escaped prisoner shot and fatally wounded an Oregon State Police officer. Murder of Thelma Taylor. Portland. 1949-08-06. Teenager abducted and murdered. Jeannace June Freeman. 1961. Murdered two children of her lover, first woman sentenced to death in Oregon.
Utah, Oregon. Date apprehended. April 3, 1980. John Charles Bolsinger (September 17, 1957 – March 23, 1988) was an American serial killer who was posthumously linked to the murders of three women in Eugene, Oregon from 1986 to 1988, committed after his release from prison for a 1980 murder in Utah. He was never convicted of the latter ...
Eugene (/ j uː ˈ dʒ iː n / yoo-JEEN) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States.It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast.
1998 Thurston High School shooting. On May 21, 1998, 15-year-old freshman student Kipland Kinkel opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in the cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, United States, killing two of his classmates and wounding 25 others. [1] He had killed his parents at the family home the previous day ...
Lane County: 039: Eugene: 1851: Southern part of Linn County and the portion of Benton County east of Umpqua County: Named for Joseph Lane, the first governor of the Oregon Territory. 381,181: 4,554 sq mi (11,795 km 2) Lincoln County: 041: Newport: 1893: Western portion of Benton County and Polk County: Named for President Abraham Lincoln ...
Died. March 12, 2023. (2023-03-12) (aged 93) Wilsonville, Oregon, U.S. Education. University of Portland ( BA) University of Notre Dame ( LLB) Edward John Leavy [1] (August 14, 1929 – March 12, 2023) was an American jurist who served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Foreign Intelligence ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 382,971, [2] making it the fourth-most populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Eugene, the state's second most populous city. [3] It is named in honor of Joseph Lane, Oregon's first territorial governor. Lane County comprises the Eugene, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the third-largest ...