"Brooke Wilberger" News

A Lane Community College student accused of espionage. A Duck season that started like a disaster and might end like a dream. The bodies of two missing girls are found. More haze around medical marijuana. And an open gubernatorial race on the horizon. Take a look at the year that was 2009 in Oregon.

A Lane Community College student accused of espionage. A Duck season that started like a disaster and might end like a dream. The bodies of two missing girls are found. More haze around medical marijuana. And an open gubernatorial race on the horizon. Take a look at the year that was 2009 in Oregon.

For the first time insights into the childhood of the man who killed Brooke Wilberger have been revealed through his sister’s blog. In it she details their idyllic early childhood in Beaverton.

Everyone involved in trying to find Brooke Wilberger was invited to Corvallis Sunday to remember the search, an effort that turned a terrible time into a lesson of love.

Law enforcement officials, volunteers, businesses and individuals who participated in the search for Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger will be recognized at an appreciation ceremony on Oct. 11 at Oregon State University.

Police charged a 63-year-old man with bludgeoning to death with a ball-peen hammer a 78-year-old woman with Parkinson's disease who was confined to a wheelchair. Corvallis police arrested David W. McCaffery on suspicion of murder Thursday.

Law enforcement officials, volunteers, businesses and individuals who participated in the search for Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger will be recognized at an appreciation ceremony on Oct. 11 at Oregon State University.

Brooke Wilberger’s remains were found on an abandoned logging road off Highway 20 about 12 miles west of Corvallis. The area was searched by volunteers when Wilberger first went missing in May 2004, but according to the district attorney her body was well hidden.

Joel Courtney agreed to the plea bargain that would put him in prison for the rest of his life for killing Brooke Wilberger because it included a provision to allow him to serve out his sentence near his family, an attorney for Courtney said Tuesday.

By striking a deal with murderer Joel Courtney, prosecutor John Haroldson said he was able to give the victim's family what they wanted most: the remains of their daughter Brooke Wilberger for a proper burial -- and what the victim's mother calls justice.

The day after pleading guilty to the 2004 murder of Brooke Wilberger, Joel Courtney arrived in New Mexico to continue serving time for the crime that helped investigators crack the Wilberger case.

"My name is Dina Courtney McBride. I am the eldest sister of Joel Patrick Courtney." So begins a statement from a member of Courtney's family about their involvement in the investigation.

A reward poster for information on the abduction of Brooke Wilberger hung on a coffee stand window in her hometown of Veneta. "We had been leaving it up, you know, until the family got their closure," said Jennifer Sennett, an employee at Nina's Espresso Inc.

Acting on a description provided by killer Joel Courtney on Friday, investigators found the first of Brooke Wilberger's remains on private property in Benton County in the Coast Range, the district attorney said Monday.