1 00:00:11,209 --> 00:00:12,810 Her family hasn't heard from her. 2 00:00:12,877 --> 00:00:14,610 Authorities don't have any new leads. 3 00:00:14,610 --> 00:00:15,810 [reporter 2] State police say 4 00:00:15,810 --> 00:00:17,010 they're gonna continue searching 5 00:00:17,010 --> 00:00:19,209 as long as necessary for her. 6 00:00:21,109 --> 00:00:25,109 [interviewer on tape] 7 00:00:25,176 --> 00:00:28,376 The girl's body was found just a short distance after this growth. 8 00:00:30,209 --> 00:00:32,810 [Marlene] If the police would have listened to me. 9 00:00:32,877 --> 00:00:35,777 none of this would have ever happened. 10 00:00:38,410 --> 00:00:41,209 I hear I'm the only frickin' survivor! 11 00:00:49,510 --> 00:00:53,309 [narrator] In the wooded heart of Central Oregon 12 00:00:53,309 --> 00:00:57,309 there's a road that winds through the pine-studded mountains, 13 00:00:57,543 --> 00:00:59,076 Highway 20. 14 00:01:00,343 --> 00:01:03,176 Picturesque and striking. 15 00:01:04,410 --> 00:01:06,777 Many find comfort here. 16 00:01:07,643 --> 00:01:09,710 But across three decades 17 00:01:09,710 --> 00:01:11,877 hiding in plain sight 18 00:01:12,710 --> 00:01:13,977 a predator... 19 00:01:14,510 --> 00:01:16,076 hunts this trail. 20 00:01:17,010 --> 00:01:19,810 Some still think of this monster, 21 00:01:19,810 --> 00:01:22,810 dragging away the innocent like prey, 22 00:01:22,877 --> 00:01:24,076 from all that they knew. 23 00:01:25,243 --> 00:01:27,476 But others think of the victims, 24 00:01:28,043 --> 00:01:29,710 who they could have become 25 00:01:29,777 --> 00:01:32,476 if anyone had stopped to listen, 26 00:01:33,043 --> 00:01:34,209 to see them. 27 00:01:34,710 --> 00:01:36,410 For only the woods, 28 00:01:36,410 --> 00:01:39,309 their witnessed all the lost women. 29 00:01:44,743 --> 00:01:47,710 [Noelle] I'm a long-time reporter in Oregon, 30 00:01:47,710 --> 00:01:49,610 covering crime. 31 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:52,410 The editor of The Oregonian came over to my desk one day 32 00:01:52,476 --> 00:01:55,309 and said, "I have a story I wanna talk to you about. 33 00:01:55,309 --> 00:01:56,777 "Uh, it's about a serial killer." 34 00:01:58,710 --> 00:02:02,276 There's a cluster of missing girl cases, 35 00:02:03,143 --> 00:02:05,209 you know, unsolved cases, cold cases, 36 00:02:05,209 --> 00:02:06,877 on and around Highway 20, 37 00:02:07,343 --> 00:02:09,810 a coast-to-coast highway. 38 00:02:09,810 --> 00:02:13,209 It starts in Boston and ends in Newport, Oregon. 39 00:02:14,243 --> 00:02:16,109 It was very intriguing. 40 00:02:16,910 --> 00:02:18,043 Who is this guy? 41 00:02:18,043 --> 00:02:19,810 How have we never heard about him? 42 00:02:19,877 --> 00:02:22,076 And who are these women? 43 00:02:25,043 --> 00:02:27,109 I thought, "Well, I'm gonna start 44 00:02:27,176 --> 00:02:29,910 "with the unsolved disappearance 45 00:02:29,977 --> 00:02:32,476 "of this young girl, Rachanda Pickle." 46 00:02:35,209 --> 00:02:36,576 [phone ringing] 47 00:02:39,743 --> 00:02:40,910 [man speaking] 48 00:02:40,910 --> 00:02:42,209 [woman speaking] 49 00:03:01,209 --> 00:03:04,510 [narrator] On July 10th, 13-year-old Rachanda Lea Pickle 50 00:03:04,576 --> 00:03:05,643 disappeared from her home 51 00:03:05,710 --> 00:03:07,810 near the State Highway division maintenance complex 52 00:03:07,810 --> 00:03:09,410 just west of Santiam Pass. 53 00:03:09,410 --> 00:03:11,610 She was reported missing on the 11th. 54 00:03:15,309 --> 00:03:17,109 [Byron Pickle] Santiam Junction, I think the best way 55 00:03:17,176 --> 00:03:20,710 to describe it would be put five maybe six houses 56 00:03:20,710 --> 00:03:22,309 with a few people living in 57 00:03:22,309 --> 00:03:25,109 camp trailers out in the middle of nowhere... 58 00:03:26,543 --> 00:03:29,010 and make a community out of it. 59 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:33,209 If someone wants to look on the map, look at where Highway 20 60 00:03:33,276 --> 00:03:34,810 and where Highway 22 meet, 61 00:03:34,810 --> 00:03:36,777 and that's where the Santiam Junction is. 62 00:03:38,143 --> 00:03:40,810 We're probably about 23, maybe 26, miles 63 00:03:40,810 --> 00:03:43,410 from Sisters, Oregon, which was the nearest town. 64 00:03:45,109 --> 00:03:48,109 Forty-five, to 48 miles from Sweet Home, 65 00:03:48,109 --> 00:03:49,877 where we went to elementary school at. 66 00:03:51,510 --> 00:03:55,510 My sister and I, we were definitely close at a very young age. 67 00:03:55,510 --> 00:03:58,176 We were up there at the Junction, there was no one else. 68 00:03:59,309 --> 00:04:00,877 It was us against the world. 69 00:04:08,510 --> 00:04:10,410 And then, have you seen one of these? 70 00:04:10,410 --> 00:04:12,910 -[Michelle Seiber] It's been a long time. -Yeah. 71 00:04:12,977 --> 00:04:16,877 I was in, um, third grade, when I met Rachanda 72 00:04:17,209 --> 00:04:18,576 at school. 73 00:04:20,143 --> 00:04:21,510 I remember that day. 74 00:04:21,510 --> 00:04:23,576 She looked exactly like Punky Brewster. 75 00:04:24,043 --> 00:04:25,209 She did. 76 00:04:27,010 --> 00:04:29,510 Literally the first day 77 00:04:29,510 --> 00:04:31,910 on the playground I've seen her, 78 00:04:32,143 --> 00:04:34,010 we clicked. 79 00:04:34,010 --> 00:04:36,109 [Byron] Before the word diva, I would express her now 80 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:40,043 definitely as a diva, as somebody who was into the latest fashion 81 00:04:40,043 --> 00:04:41,677 pop music and stuff. 82 00:04:43,943 --> 00:04:45,109 [Michelle] Hair style never changed. 83 00:04:45,109 --> 00:04:47,043 It was always in a little floof, 84 00:04:47,043 --> 00:04:48,410 dangly earrings, 85 00:04:48,476 --> 00:04:50,309 the '90s bangs, um... 86 00:04:50,376 --> 00:04:52,309 the bigger they are, the better they are. 87 00:04:53,010 --> 00:04:54,410 [Byron] And goofy. she was funny. 88 00:04:54,410 --> 00:04:56,710 I mean she was like, truly, truly funny. 89 00:04:56,710 --> 00:05:00,010 She was just a goofball. 90 00:05:00,010 --> 00:05:03,410 [Jennifer Persinger] She would make me laugh until I cried. 91 00:05:03,410 --> 00:05:05,910 And she'll do another little thing 92 00:05:05,910 --> 00:05:07,209 and set me off again. 93 00:05:07,710 --> 00:05:09,677 Start laughing my butt off. 94 00:05:10,710 --> 00:05:14,109 She could be friends with anybody at school. 95 00:05:14,109 --> 00:05:17,309 Being so little and just having such that 96 00:05:17,376 --> 00:05:19,276 presence about her, you know... 97 00:05:22,410 --> 00:05:23,476 [sobs] 98 00:05:25,810 --> 00:05:27,376 Excuse me. 99 00:05:29,910 --> 00:05:33,710 [Byron] On July 10th, I remember getting a call from my mom, you know, 100 00:05:33,710 --> 00:05:35,877 "Hey, has Rachanda gotten ahold of you? 101 00:05:36,610 --> 00:05:38,410 "Well, she's missing." 102 00:05:38,410 --> 00:05:40,610 I'm like, "Well, did you look for the note?" 103 00:05:40,677 --> 00:05:43,710 'Cause we'd always leave notes and stuff, ju-- if, you know-- around in the case that 104 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:45,610 Mom or my stepfather, John, came home. 105 00:05:45,610 --> 00:05:46,810 "No, there's no note." 106 00:05:46,810 --> 00:05:48,610 I'm like, "Did you go look for her BB gun? 107 00:05:48,610 --> 00:05:50,010 "Maybe she's out shooting her BB gun." 108 00:05:50,010 --> 00:05:51,010 "No, her BB gun's here." 109 00:05:51,076 --> 00:05:53,309 So, it-- it just didn't make sense. 110 00:05:54,209 --> 00:05:56,410 I was trying to rationalize stuff, you know. 111 00:05:56,476 --> 00:06:00,209 I knew that she wouldn't go off in the woods alone by herself 112 00:06:00,276 --> 00:06:03,610 Rachanda found the woods very scary and intimidating. 113 00:06:04,943 --> 00:06:08,677 'Cause the Junction is out in the middle of nowhere. 114 00:06:09,910 --> 00:06:12,109 And then I was like, "Well, did you call the cops?" 115 00:06:12,109 --> 00:06:14,376 "They say we got to wait 24 hours." 116 00:06:15,843 --> 00:06:17,710 The morning of July 11th 117 00:06:17,777 --> 00:06:19,877 is when my mom called the law enforcement. 118 00:06:20,309 --> 00:06:21,910 [woman speaking] 119 00:06:21,910 --> 00:06:23,877 [Linda speaking] 120 00:07:06,043 --> 00:07:09,410 [Jennifer] My aunt Linda married Steve Pickle 121 00:07:09,410 --> 00:07:12,109 and she had two kids with him, 122 00:07:12,176 --> 00:07:13,977 Rachanda and Byron. 123 00:07:15,510 --> 00:07:17,209 There's a picture there of my mom 124 00:07:17,209 --> 00:07:18,810 with my dad Steve, with me, 125 00:07:18,877 --> 00:07:20,710 and I'm, you know, I'm looking at them now, and I'm like, 126 00:07:20,777 --> 00:07:23,010 "Oh, my gosh, you guys were babies, 127 00:07:23,010 --> 00:07:25,209 "having babies." I mean... 128 00:07:25,209 --> 00:07:28,309 Holey-moley, they were just so young. 129 00:07:28,309 --> 00:07:31,143 My mom had to be either 18 or 19 in the picture 130 00:07:31,143 --> 00:07:34,010 and my dad had to be 20 or 21, maybe. 131 00:07:35,209 --> 00:07:36,810 They definitely did not get along well. 132 00:07:36,810 --> 00:07:38,610 I mean, my parents, both of them 133 00:07:38,610 --> 00:07:41,010 were very vindictive to each other. 134 00:07:41,076 --> 00:07:44,209 As kids, we were definitely used as their little pawns. 135 00:07:45,143 --> 00:07:47,209 And of course, my mom would always remind me 136 00:07:47,209 --> 00:07:50,476 how much I did look like my dad, Steve, so. 137 00:07:51,743 --> 00:07:54,309 [Jennifer] They got divorced. 138 00:07:54,309 --> 00:07:59,276 Linda was struggling to make it on one income. 139 00:08:00,309 --> 00:08:01,610 I think I was seven years old, 140 00:08:01,610 --> 00:08:03,977 when my mom and John first got together. 141 00:08:05,243 --> 00:08:06,510 John was a mechanic 142 00:08:06,576 --> 00:08:08,510 for the State Highway Department. 143 00:08:08,576 --> 00:08:10,910 We grew up there in the Sweet Home area. 144 00:08:10,910 --> 00:08:14,043 John was my favorite uncle. 145 00:08:14,043 --> 00:08:17,309 John would actually make you feel 146 00:08:17,309 --> 00:08:18,510 special. 147 00:08:20,043 --> 00:08:24,309 My 16th birthday, John and I, we went to Arby's, 148 00:08:24,309 --> 00:08:30,977 and I must have had four roast beef and cheddars. 149 00:08:33,143 --> 00:08:36,510 After that, we went to the drive-in 150 00:08:36,910 --> 00:08:39,010 And he gave me $50. 151 00:08:39,643 --> 00:08:41,476 That was really nice. 152 00:08:41,810 --> 00:08:43,510 A fun-- fun day. 153 00:08:53,843 --> 00:08:56,910 My mom asked my sister and I 154 00:08:56,910 --> 00:08:59,176 to come talk with her and John. 155 00:09:00,910 --> 00:09:05,610 And they asked what we think about moving to the Junction. 156 00:09:05,610 --> 00:09:08,410 And at that point, I was like, "Oh, this is getting serious." 157 00:09:10,910 --> 00:09:14,076 Rachanda was six, 158 00:09:14,910 --> 00:09:17,877 I think, when Linda married John. 159 00:09:19,143 --> 00:09:23,043 Linda ended up quitting her second job 160 00:09:23,043 --> 00:09:25,376 'cause John was so well off. 161 00:09:26,309 --> 00:09:28,309 [Byron] From where we were at to where he was at, 162 00:09:28,376 --> 00:09:31,109 I mean, it was believed some balance financially. 163 00:09:31,176 --> 00:09:33,010 I remember the first time that he pulled $5 164 00:09:33,076 --> 00:09:34,209 out of his wallet and handed us, 165 00:09:34,276 --> 00:09:35,309 I was like-- That was the most cash 166 00:09:35,309 --> 00:09:37,677 I've ever had in my hands at that point in time. 167 00:09:38,810 --> 00:09:40,209 I felt like, I mean... 168 00:09:40,276 --> 00:09:42,209 That might as well have been a Benjamin. 169 00:09:43,109 --> 00:09:44,610 Some of the people in the family 170 00:09:44,610 --> 00:09:47,510 couldn't even read or write well. 171 00:09:47,510 --> 00:09:50,010 And then you have this guy who graduated high school 172 00:09:50,076 --> 00:09:52,710 He had a great career, a previous military guy. 173 00:09:52,710 --> 00:09:54,109 This guy was my dad. 174 00:09:54,943 --> 00:09:57,010 Taught me how to hunt. Taught me how to fish. 175 00:09:57,010 --> 00:09:59,309 Actually spent time with me 176 00:09:59,309 --> 00:10:02,510 Definitely heavy-handed, but he was a good dad. 177 00:10:02,510 --> 00:10:04,576 You know, my dad, Steve, wasn't around. 178 00:10:06,309 --> 00:10:07,510 I knew who he was, 179 00:10:07,576 --> 00:10:10,209 but really didn't get to know who he was. 180 00:10:11,810 --> 00:10:13,810 [horn honking] 181 00:10:13,810 --> 00:10:16,410 It was 1990, during the spring time. 182 00:10:17,043 --> 00:10:20,109 I'm 14, Rachanda is 13. 183 00:10:20,176 --> 00:10:23,209 I can't remember if I came up with it or it was Rachanda's idea,, 184 00:10:23,276 --> 00:10:26,010 we wanted to get know our biological father. 185 00:10:26,010 --> 00:10:28,410 We called up, my grandmother 186 00:10:28,476 --> 00:10:29,810 on the phone, with the pay phone, 187 00:10:29,810 --> 00:10:30,910 put the quarter in and called her and said, 188 00:10:30,910 --> 00:10:34,410 "Hey, I wanted to go spend the summer with my dad. 189 00:10:34,476 --> 00:10:36,276 "Do you have his phone number, so I can give him a call?" 190 00:10:38,143 --> 00:10:40,510 My mom was like, "Absolutely not. 191 00:10:40,576 --> 00:10:43,910 "Why would you even wanna go see that guy?" 192 00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:45,209 I really wanted to know who he was 193 00:10:45,276 --> 00:10:46,576 so I could form my own opinion. 194 00:10:48,209 --> 00:10:50,910 My dad came and picked us up from the Junction. 195 00:10:50,910 --> 00:10:54,209 We had the windows open, you know, standing by and stuff. 196 00:10:54,209 --> 00:10:55,810 And my stepfather, John, came up. 197 00:10:55,810 --> 00:10:57,109 Looked at me, put his finger right at me. 198 00:10:57,109 --> 00:10:58,910 He's like, "You remember what I told you." 199 00:11:00,209 --> 00:11:02,043 I was like, "Yeah, I remember what you told me." 200 00:11:02,043 --> 00:11:04,043 Never to leave my sister Rachanda alone 201 00:11:04,043 --> 00:11:06,276 with our biological father, Steve Pickle. 202 00:11:08,410 --> 00:11:11,610 [Jennifer] Members of my family kept their distance 203 00:11:11,677 --> 00:11:15,109 at an arm's length from Steven. 204 00:11:16,710 --> 00:11:19,476 You give Steve an inch, he'll take a mile. 205 00:11:20,209 --> 00:11:23,910 And that's saying it loosely. 206 00:11:26,610 --> 00:11:28,410 [Byron] We drove to Medford. 207 00:11:28,476 --> 00:11:30,810 Big change from Santiam Junction. 208 00:11:30,877 --> 00:11:34,209 Steve was living in a manufactured home park. 209 00:11:34,209 --> 00:11:36,309 But the awesome thing about it was it had the tennis court, 210 00:11:36,309 --> 00:11:39,010 it had the basketball court, it had the swimming pool. 211 00:11:39,010 --> 00:11:42,410 Had tons of kids to play with and stuff that were our own age. 212 00:11:42,410 --> 00:11:44,176 We ended up having a blast. 213 00:11:45,343 --> 00:11:48,710 There was a big field with that tall grass and stuff. 214 00:11:48,710 --> 00:11:52,410 So we were gonna go play hide and seek with a bunch of other boys and girls. 215 00:11:52,476 --> 00:11:55,576 But my dad thought it was a ruse, you know, to go have sex. 216 00:11:56,410 --> 00:11:59,510 [chuckles] That's taking a big jump, man. 217 00:11:59,510 --> 00:12:03,209 Looking back, I think my dad had some mental illness problems. 218 00:12:03,209 --> 00:12:05,977 Everything was sexual with my dad. Everything was sexual. 219 00:12:06,610 --> 00:12:08,209 That was not even a thought to me. 220 00:12:08,209 --> 00:12:09,910 Having sex at that point, I just-- 221 00:12:09,910 --> 00:12:11,209 You know, they were just kids. 222 00:12:12,510 --> 00:12:14,510 Then he started screaming at Rachanda, 223 00:12:14,510 --> 00:12:16,010 which made her cry. 224 00:12:16,010 --> 00:12:19,677 I mean, you got your biological father basically calling you a whore. 225 00:12:21,010 --> 00:12:23,143 And she was like, "I wanna go home." 226 00:12:23,143 --> 00:12:25,010 She never wanted to see Steve Pickle again. 227 00:12:27,843 --> 00:12:29,410 My sister went back. 228 00:12:29,410 --> 00:12:30,810 And I stayed there. 229 00:12:30,877 --> 00:12:32,209 in Medford, 230 00:12:32,276 --> 00:12:34,810 with my dad, Steve. 231 00:12:34,877 --> 00:12:36,910 'Cause I figured it was just only about a week or two 232 00:12:36,910 --> 00:12:39,810 and then we were gonna see each other again. 233 00:12:39,810 --> 00:12:42,309 I wanted to give her a hug but she was already in the back of the truck 234 00:12:42,376 --> 00:12:44,677 and I didn't wanna call her back out of there. 235 00:12:48,010 --> 00:12:53,610 Rachanda came back because her dad was asking her inappropriate innuendos. 236 00:12:54,043 --> 00:12:56,209 And I said, "Like what?" 237 00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:58,209 And she said, "I don't wanna talk about it." 238 00:13:01,710 --> 00:13:04,910 My aunt married a pedophile. 239 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:07,510 She didn't know. 240 00:13:09,143 --> 00:13:13,209 I never said anything about the sexual assault 241 00:13:13,209 --> 00:13:14,510 from... 242 00:13:15,510 --> 00:13:17,410 Steve Pickle. 243 00:13:18,143 --> 00:13:20,710 But it happened 244 00:13:21,410 --> 00:13:22,610 numerous times. 245 00:13:27,109 --> 00:13:29,276 I didn't say anything because... 246 00:13:29,843 --> 00:13:32,777 who would believe a little girl? 247 00:13:38,109 --> 00:13:41,510 Well, that next morning, Linda came down 248 00:13:41,510 --> 00:13:43,109 to pick up Rachanda. 249 00:13:44,410 --> 00:13:48,276 And she took Rachanda up to the Santiam junction. 250 00:13:49,043 --> 00:13:50,109 I waved at her. 251 00:13:50,109 --> 00:13:52,677 And I told her, "I will see you next weekend." 252 00:14:00,810 --> 00:14:02,910 [Michelle] We were in a foster home. 253 00:14:04,643 --> 00:14:07,510 And we were summoned into the house. 254 00:14:07,576 --> 00:14:11,410 And detectives were asking if we'd heard from Rachanda. 255 00:14:13,043 --> 00:14:14,910 [Mandy] Your friend Rachanda's gone missing. 256 00:14:14,910 --> 00:14:17,043 I'm like, "What?" 257 00:14:17,043 --> 00:14:19,710 Like, it just-- It was like a kick in the stomach. 258 00:14:19,710 --> 00:14:21,910 I'm like, "Missing? What do you mean missing?" 259 00:14:22,910 --> 00:14:25,109 "Do you know where she is?" 260 00:14:25,176 --> 00:14:26,810 "Have you guys had any contact with her?" 261 00:14:26,810 --> 00:14:28,610 We're like, "No." 262 00:14:28,610 --> 00:14:30,143 They thought we might have something to do with it 263 00:14:30,143 --> 00:14:32,410 because we ran away so much. 264 00:14:32,410 --> 00:14:34,410 Maybe that she'd found her way to us. 265 00:14:35,443 --> 00:14:36,710 [Mandy] "Do you think she could have run away?" 266 00:14:36,710 --> 00:14:38,476 "No, she's not gonna run away." 267 00:14:40,209 --> 00:14:41,510 Where was she gonna go? 268 00:14:43,109 --> 00:14:44,977 She lived in the middle of a mountain. 269 00:14:46,443 --> 00:14:49,109 There's nowhere to go. 270 00:14:49,109 --> 00:14:51,977 [Michelle] We knew something must have happened to her. 271 00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:03,910 [Mike] I get quiet 272 00:15:04,910 --> 00:15:09,109 until, you know, I cross over the mountain limits. 273 00:15:09,176 --> 00:15:12,877 It's just a dark place along Highway 20. 274 00:15:15,209 --> 00:15:18,510 [narrator] Rachanda has been missing for 24 hours. 275 00:15:18,510 --> 00:15:21,710 Her disappearance spurs people to action. 276 00:15:21,710 --> 00:15:25,143 They just hope it isn't too late. 277 00:15:25,143 --> 00:15:26,910 [Mike] The day she goes missing, 278 00:15:26,910 --> 00:15:29,610 Rachanda had been at home 279 00:15:29,677 --> 00:15:33,610 with her mom and stepdad, John Ackroyd. 280 00:15:33,610 --> 00:15:37,010 Linda and John had left to go work. 281 00:15:37,810 --> 00:15:40,510 Byron was not home at the time. 282 00:15:40,510 --> 00:15:42,710 [Noelle] Rachanda is told by her mother 283 00:15:42,777 --> 00:15:45,143 "Please, you know, empty the dishwasher, 284 00:15:45,143 --> 00:15:48,076 "vacuum, and take out the frozen hot dogs for dinner." 285 00:15:49,410 --> 00:15:51,209 [Mike] John picked up Linda. 286 00:15:51,710 --> 00:15:53,010 And they came back home. 287 00:15:53,076 --> 00:15:55,677 And Rachanda was not home. 288 00:15:57,109 --> 00:16:01,109 They started getting a little bit concerned about 10:00, that night. 289 00:16:01,109 --> 00:16:05,309 They believed that they had to wait 24 hours to report her missing, 290 00:16:05,376 --> 00:16:08,276 so they waited until the next day to call. 291 00:16:10,510 --> 00:16:11,910 You're just going through 292 00:16:11,910 --> 00:16:16,910 all those basic who, what, where, when, why, how questions. 293 00:16:16,977 --> 00:16:18,910 "Did she have any friends in the area?" 294 00:16:18,910 --> 00:16:21,109 "Was she unhappy?" 295 00:16:21,109 --> 00:16:23,710 You wanna kinda check out 296 00:16:23,710 --> 00:16:26,209 what the general family dynamic is. 297 00:16:29,910 --> 00:16:32,910 She's a young girl. I'm a dad of four daughters. 298 00:16:32,910 --> 00:16:35,777 When I looked at the pictures of her bedroom, 299 00:16:36,510 --> 00:16:38,910 nothing was missing. 300 00:16:38,977 --> 00:16:43,309 Her brush, all of her, you know, hygiene products, 301 00:16:43,376 --> 00:16:45,043 were still in the room. 302 00:16:45,043 --> 00:16:47,309 If a 13-year-old's gonna run away from home, 303 00:16:47,309 --> 00:16:49,010 she's gonna take her stuff with her. 304 00:16:52,510 --> 00:16:54,209 [reporter] Her mom, Linda, was also convinced 305 00:16:54,209 --> 00:16:57,510 she didn't run away from her home in Santiam Junction. 306 00:16:57,510 --> 00:17:00,710 Rachanda is a very responsible little girl. 307 00:17:00,777 --> 00:17:03,610 She wouldn't go wandering out by herself. 308 00:17:03,610 --> 00:17:07,677 Usually, if she goes off it's with her brother, Byron. 309 00:17:10,810 --> 00:17:13,710 [Noelle] Byron turns to his father, Steven Pickle, 310 00:17:13,710 --> 00:17:15,309 and says, "I gotta go back there. 311 00:17:15,309 --> 00:17:17,109 "You know, we gotta go look for her." 312 00:17:17,109 --> 00:17:21,710 And the father is like, "No, we're gonna see how this plays out." 313 00:17:21,777 --> 00:17:26,410 And, you know, Byron, all of 14, 314 00:17:26,410 --> 00:17:28,910 is like, "No, I'm not gonna do that." 315 00:17:28,977 --> 00:17:30,777 You know, "Something is wrong." 316 00:17:31,810 --> 00:17:34,010 [reporter] The search area covers 50 square miles 317 00:17:34,010 --> 00:17:37,043 of rugged, wooded country near the Hoodoo Ski Area. 318 00:17:37,043 --> 00:17:38,510 This morning, search and rescue teams 319 00:17:38,510 --> 00:17:40,610 from seven different counties were here, 320 00:17:40,610 --> 00:17:42,510 to find the teenager. 321 00:17:42,576 --> 00:17:46,710 Everybody was convening at the shop office. 322 00:17:46,710 --> 00:17:51,010 And some were all like, "Well, I mean, where should we go look? 323 00:17:51,076 --> 00:17:53,610 "We should start searching." 324 00:17:53,677 --> 00:17:58,010 [Jennifer] There is umpteen million people searching 325 00:17:58,076 --> 00:18:01,510 John was the head of the search team. 326 00:18:01,510 --> 00:18:06,109 He was telling all the searchers where to go. 327 00:18:06,176 --> 00:18:09,209 If anybody knows this area, Ackroyd knows this area. 328 00:18:09,209 --> 00:18:10,777 Stand forward! 329 00:18:14,209 --> 00:18:16,510 John was the greatest resource that we had. 330 00:18:16,576 --> 00:18:18,109 This was in his backyard. 331 00:18:18,176 --> 00:18:20,710 John knew those woods very well. 332 00:18:21,743 --> 00:18:26,010 Probably one of the most extensive searches 333 00:18:26,076 --> 00:18:28,710 in Linn County history. 334 00:18:28,710 --> 00:18:30,810 [officer] We're gonna go up to the end of the road, 335 00:18:30,810 --> 00:18:33,043 Linn County is gonna take one side, we're gonna take the other. 336 00:18:33,043 --> 00:18:34,910 About 10-15 feet apart. 337 00:18:34,910 --> 00:18:36,209 Then we'll come back down here. 338 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:41,010 [Mike] There was multiple agencies. 339 00:18:41,010 --> 00:18:43,977 Multiple man hours searching for her. 340 00:18:44,243 --> 00:18:45,677 Everywhere. 341 00:18:50,209 --> 00:18:53,810 [Byron] My mom was convinced that somebody kidnapped Rachanda. 342 00:18:53,877 --> 00:18:56,143 Somebody parked on the highway and came down, 343 00:18:56,143 --> 00:18:59,510 see Rachanda, chance of opportunity, snagged her. 344 00:18:59,510 --> 00:19:01,977 And that was the only thing that did make sense. 345 00:19:05,309 --> 00:19:07,810 People were accusing others 346 00:19:07,877 --> 00:19:09,777 over the disappearance of Rachanda. 347 00:19:10,910 --> 00:19:14,209 yeah, if you're out there, Rachanda, at least call your mother. 348 00:19:14,276 --> 00:19:15,810 Let 'em know you're alive. 349 00:19:15,810 --> 00:19:18,276 We love you and miss you very much. 350 00:19:19,343 --> 00:19:21,910 The family situation wasn't good. 351 00:19:21,977 --> 00:19:28,010 It was a very dysfunctional situation. 352 00:19:30,810 --> 00:19:33,076 [John speaking] 353 00:19:49,143 --> 00:19:50,510 [Byron] So, we go talk to John 354 00:19:50,510 --> 00:19:52,010 and he's emotionally distraught. 355 00:19:52,010 --> 00:19:53,209 I see tears up in his eyes. 356 00:19:53,276 --> 00:19:54,309 and the first thing that comes out of his mouth is, 357 00:19:54,376 --> 00:19:56,309 "I'mma kill the son of a bitch who did this." 358 00:20:00,410 --> 00:20:02,010 [narrator] As they search for Rachanda, 359 00:20:02,510 --> 00:20:04,276 Hope turns to resignation. 360 00:20:05,043 --> 00:20:06,710 What they don't know is, 361 00:20:06,777 --> 00:20:10,109 that the rot is more than a decade old. 362 00:20:10,176 --> 00:20:13,710 Just a few miles away, in Camp Sherman, 363 00:20:13,710 --> 00:20:15,977 the monster has taken another. 364 00:20:31,143 --> 00:20:32,610 [Gary] It was a summer's day. 365 00:20:32,610 --> 00:20:34,576 And I was down here, working at the store. 366 00:20:36,143 --> 00:20:37,710 The news was on. 367 00:20:37,710 --> 00:20:39,910 [reporter] She's been missing for a week now. 368 00:20:39,910 --> 00:20:41,010 Her family hasn't heard from her, 369 00:20:41,076 --> 00:20:43,143 authorities don't have any new leads. 370 00:20:43,143 --> 00:20:44,910 So, searchers are resigned to the fact 371 00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:48,610 that they aren't going to find any good news here. 372 00:20:48,677 --> 00:20:50,109 [Gary] I wasn't really paying attention. 373 00:20:50,109 --> 00:20:52,109 And then, on the news on TV, 374 00:20:52,109 --> 00:20:53,510 I hear this voice saying that, 375 00:20:53,510 --> 00:20:55,109 "I was the last one to see her alive." 376 00:20:55,176 --> 00:20:57,910 Same tone, same inflection, same everything. 377 00:20:57,977 --> 00:20:59,677 And I thought, "Holy smoke. 378 00:21:00,143 --> 00:21:02,410 "I know that voice." 379 00:21:02,476 --> 00:21:04,910 And it's just like Christmas Eve of '78. 380 00:21:04,977 --> 00:21:07,977 And I hollered at Chrissy, I said, "That son-of-a-bitch did it again." 381 00:21:14,209 --> 00:21:18,109 [reporter] She went for a jog. Kaye Turner never returned. 382 00:21:28,309 --> 00:21:30,410 [Gary] When I said, you know, to Chrissy, 383 00:21:30,476 --> 00:21:32,209 "The son-of-a-bitch did it again," 384 00:21:32,276 --> 00:21:33,977 I was angry. 385 00:21:36,610 --> 00:21:39,309 We knew the guy that did it 386 00:21:39,309 --> 00:21:41,777 because everybody knew about the murder, 387 00:21:41,777 --> 00:21:43,476 back in '78. 388 00:21:44,209 --> 00:21:46,143 Because he got away with it. 389 00:21:46,710 --> 00:21:47,943 So... 390 00:22:01,510 --> 00:22:04,410 Camp Sherman is a vacation-type resort community, 391 00:22:05,010 --> 00:22:06,777 along Highway 20. 392 00:22:07,610 --> 00:22:08,843 We came in '78. 393 00:22:10,543 --> 00:22:13,010 Such an idyllic spot. 394 00:22:13,010 --> 00:22:14,877 I mean, it's almost rainbows and unicorns. 395 00:22:14,943 --> 00:22:16,943 I mean, it's that perfect a place. 396 00:22:22,209 --> 00:22:23,877 The type that there's just one store. 397 00:22:23,943 --> 00:22:26,510 Back then, we were the pulse if you need to know what's going on. 398 00:22:26,576 --> 00:22:29,710 And when people were lonely, 399 00:22:29,777 --> 00:22:32,109 or had cabin fever, 400 00:22:32,109 --> 00:22:33,209 they'd head to the store. 401 00:22:33,209 --> 00:22:34,510 So, we see everybody. 402 00:22:36,010 --> 00:22:37,877 So, the penny candy's always been here. 403 00:22:37,943 --> 00:22:40,209 The folks that had the store before us had penny candy, 404 00:22:40,209 --> 00:22:41,777 we have penny candy. 405 00:22:41,843 --> 00:22:44,010 Now these are charge accounts. 406 00:22:44,010 --> 00:22:46,209 Most all of these are summer home people. 407 00:22:46,209 --> 00:22:47,977 But there are locals, too. 408 00:22:47,977 --> 00:22:50,777 And when they'll come for a weekend, or a week, 409 00:22:50,777 --> 00:22:53,777 rather than pay each time, we run a tab. 410 00:22:53,843 --> 00:22:55,943 Who else does charge accounts anymore? 411 00:22:56,543 --> 00:22:59,109 The store was a gathering point. 412 00:22:59,109 --> 00:23:01,510 It's just a perfect place to grow up, 413 00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:04,410 perfect place to raise your family. 414 00:23:04,410 --> 00:23:07,410 You know, and up until the incident, super safe. 415 00:23:07,476 --> 00:23:09,076 You know, so... 416 00:23:11,910 --> 00:23:14,777 [reporter] Christmas Eve morning, 1978. 417 00:23:14,777 --> 00:23:17,209 35-year-old Kaye turner of Eugene 418 00:23:17,276 --> 00:23:20,977 was vacationing in this cabin at Camp Sherman, Oregon. 419 00:23:21,043 --> 00:23:23,710 She went for a jog on this road. 420 00:23:23,710 --> 00:23:25,576 Kaye Turner never returned. 421 00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:35,610 Christmas Eve started out foggy and cold. 422 00:23:35,610 --> 00:23:37,576 And then the sun came out and it was super warm. 423 00:23:39,910 --> 00:23:41,910 So, I got up, we opened the store. 424 00:23:41,910 --> 00:23:45,710 I just walked through and Chrissy's talking to this guy. 425 00:23:45,777 --> 00:23:48,209 And I came in and she said, "Did you find her yet?" 426 00:23:48,209 --> 00:23:49,410 And he said, "No." 427 00:23:49,410 --> 00:23:50,977 And I said-- The way he said "no", I said-- 428 00:23:51,043 --> 00:23:53,710 I asked him, "So, what kind of dog did you lose?" 429 00:23:53,710 --> 00:23:55,309 And he said, "Oh, no, I lost my wife." 430 00:23:55,309 --> 00:23:56,309 I said... 431 00:23:56,510 --> 00:23:57,476 "Whoa!" 432 00:23:58,443 --> 00:23:59,410 "When'd you last see her?" 433 00:23:59,410 --> 00:24:01,309 He said, "Oh, between 8:00 and 8:30." 434 00:24:01,376 --> 00:24:02,910 I said, "Oh, my God." 435 00:24:02,910 --> 00:24:05,076 He was from Eugene, he was new to the area. 436 00:24:05,076 --> 00:24:07,309 Didn't really know anybody here. 437 00:24:07,376 --> 00:24:10,309 We didn't have a search and rescue team in Camp Sherman, at all. 438 00:24:10,309 --> 00:24:12,376 We just never had to have one. 439 00:24:13,309 --> 00:24:14,610 So, I said, "Well, let me just take a drive." 440 00:24:15,343 --> 00:24:16,977 I just hopped in the Reagan, 441 00:24:17,043 --> 00:24:18,010 made a quick loop, 442 00:24:18,076 --> 00:24:20,677 expecting to find a gal with an injured ankle. 443 00:24:22,443 --> 00:24:24,510 I never once suspected foul play. 444 00:24:24,510 --> 00:24:27,410 It never even entered my mind. 445 00:24:27,410 --> 00:24:30,043 This is Camp Sherman. Nobody dies in Camp Sherman. 446 00:24:32,510 --> 00:24:35,610 [Ardith] Her husband, Noel, called. 447 00:24:35,610 --> 00:24:38,410 And then-- And it was a short conversation. 448 00:24:38,476 --> 00:24:41,043 He wanted to know 449 00:24:41,043 --> 00:24:45,010 if Kaye would be likely, when we were running together, 450 00:24:45,010 --> 00:24:47,877 to head off into the trees. 451 00:24:47,943 --> 00:24:49,209 "She always stayed on the road. 452 00:24:49,276 --> 00:24:51,109 "She never went bounding off 453 00:24:51,977 --> 00:24:53,576 "into the trees. 454 00:24:55,510 --> 00:24:59,043 "If she went out to run and she hasn't come back, 455 00:24:59,043 --> 00:25:01,209 "somebody's grabbed her." 456 00:25:01,276 --> 00:25:04,843 I'm sure those were almost my exact words. 457 00:25:05,410 --> 00:25:07,209 I think, by the time we hung up, 458 00:25:07,209 --> 00:25:09,109 I was already crying. 459 00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:18,376 [Gary] I called Jefferson County. 460 00:25:19,143 --> 00:25:21,209 Just told 'em we had a missing jogger. 461 00:25:21,209 --> 00:25:22,977 And, you know, "What should we do?" 462 00:25:22,977 --> 00:25:25,309 'Cause we never had that happen before. 463 00:25:25,376 --> 00:25:28,209 And they said, "Well, get some people together, we'll be right over." 464 00:25:28,209 --> 00:25:29,510 "Okay." 465 00:25:29,510 --> 00:25:31,410 To kinda show what community it is, 466 00:25:31,476 --> 00:25:33,209 I made three calls or four calls, 467 00:25:33,209 --> 00:25:35,143 and yet 15 or 20 four-wheel drives 468 00:25:35,143 --> 00:25:36,943 were in my parking lot in 20 minutes. 469 00:25:38,010 --> 00:25:39,209 Christmas Eve. 470 00:25:39,276 --> 00:25:41,410 Some people left diner to come right over. 471 00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:47,710 [Mark] There was no law enforcement in Camp Sherman, at the time. 472 00:25:47,777 --> 00:25:51,476 Because the statistics, the crimes, 473 00:25:51,810 --> 00:25:53,476 didn't add up 474 00:25:54,543 --> 00:25:57,410 [Gary] We wasted an hour or so of daylight. 475 00:25:57,476 --> 00:25:59,410 But we were told to wait. 476 00:25:59,476 --> 00:26:02,610 And so they got here and they said, "Okay, so what do you want us to do? 477 00:26:02,610 --> 00:26:04,777 "We'll just fan out and drive the roads." 478 00:26:05,510 --> 00:26:06,810 We could have done that in daylight. 479 00:26:06,810 --> 00:26:08,610 [searcher] Kaye! 480 00:26:11,309 --> 00:26:14,877 [Gary] We went until about-- I think about 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. 481 00:26:16,610 --> 00:26:19,576 So, it was-- Yeah, it was a difficult-- Difficult time. 482 00:26:22,810 --> 00:26:28,476 the next day, my husband and I went up and participated in the search. 483 00:26:31,076 --> 00:26:33,209 I remember calling out her name. 484 00:26:33,209 --> 00:26:37,877 Now wanting to find what we were looking for. 485 00:26:39,410 --> 00:26:41,710 You didn't wanna find a body. 486 00:26:41,710 --> 00:26:44,010 But at the same time, you wanted to. 487 00:26:44,010 --> 00:26:45,510 So, it was just... 488 00:26:46,543 --> 00:26:47,943 push-pull. 489 00:26:48,877 --> 00:26:50,309 It was so surreal. 490 00:26:52,309 --> 00:26:55,043 [Gary] The police set up a command center 491 00:26:55,043 --> 00:26:56,977 in the restaurant across the river. 492 00:26:58,510 --> 00:27:00,610 [Ardith] At that time, I remember thinking 493 00:27:00,610 --> 00:27:03,010 everything was so disorganized. 494 00:27:03,010 --> 00:27:05,877 People were just taking off in the woods. 495 00:27:06,510 --> 00:27:09,877 And every woods looks the same. 496 00:27:10,710 --> 00:27:12,476 It was just chaos. 497 00:27:13,877 --> 00:27:16,209 I stayed away from the command center, completely. 498 00:27:16,276 --> 00:27:17,877 because it was chaos. 499 00:27:17,877 --> 00:27:20,209 And it wasn't even organized chaos. It was just a mess. 500 00:27:20,209 --> 00:27:21,143 "Well, let's do this." 501 00:27:21,143 --> 00:27:22,143 "Well, I know she must be there." 502 00:27:22,143 --> 00:27:23,710 It was like this, you know. 503 00:27:23,777 --> 00:27:24,843 It was nuts. 504 00:27:29,143 --> 00:27:33,710 Well, the initial thinking of the initial deputies 505 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:35,309 who were on that scene, 506 00:27:35,309 --> 00:27:39,209 is that Noel, Kaye Turner's husband, 507 00:27:40,243 --> 00:27:42,877 did her in and just dumped her in the woods. 508 00:27:45,076 --> 00:27:46,510 [Noelle] As far as they were concerned, 509 00:27:46,510 --> 00:27:50,710 the husband was the last person to see her, 510 00:27:50,777 --> 00:27:53,943 there were signs that the marriage was on the rocks. 511 00:27:55,076 --> 00:28:00,109 [Mark] And they spent a lot of time not searching for her 512 00:28:00,109 --> 00:28:01,877 but questioning him, 513 00:28:01,877 --> 00:28:04,309 expecting he would crack. 514 00:28:04,309 --> 00:28:08,610 They thought that he's come out to some small community 515 00:28:09,343 --> 00:28:11,176 to do his dirty work. 516 00:28:12,143 --> 00:28:15,710 Figuring that nobody'd catch him that way. 517 00:28:23,710 --> 00:28:26,710 [Noel] I met Kaye in college. 518 00:28:28,543 --> 00:28:32,143 We both finished school in 1966. 519 00:28:32,143 --> 00:28:36,276 And decided we would-- we'd get married. 520 00:28:37,877 --> 00:28:40,710 We moved to, uh, Eugene. 521 00:28:42,010 --> 00:28:44,510 Kaye grew as a person 522 00:28:44,510 --> 00:28:48,143 as she transitioned from having taught high school 523 00:28:48,910 --> 00:28:53,209 into becoming an interim director 524 00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:58,410 of the Planned Parenthood facility in Eugene. 525 00:28:58,476 --> 00:29:03,143 We met because she was the director of Planned Parenthood. 526 00:29:03,143 --> 00:29:06,410 and I was in charge of family planning for the county. 527 00:29:06,410 --> 00:29:09,276 So we worked closely together. 528 00:29:11,410 --> 00:29:14,610 Everybody knew who Kaye Turner was, it seemed like. 529 00:29:15,510 --> 00:29:17,276 You know, she was independent. 530 00:29:17,910 --> 00:29:20,410 She was a feminist. 531 00:29:20,476 --> 00:29:22,510 As though she cared-- 532 00:29:22,510 --> 00:29:25,843 But she didn't act like she cared what other people thought. 533 00:29:28,777 --> 00:29:32,109 She had kind of a Princess Diana quality about her. 534 00:29:32,109 --> 00:29:34,209 She was like a butterfly 535 00:29:34,209 --> 00:29:35,877 when she kind of-- 536 00:29:35,877 --> 00:29:37,309 I'm coming up with all these things. 537 00:29:37,376 --> 00:29:39,309 I never thought of her that way, but... 538 00:29:40,410 --> 00:29:43,176 people really were attracted to her. 539 00:29:46,209 --> 00:29:51,410 Eugene was really the center of this new movement around running. 540 00:29:51,476 --> 00:29:53,877 And she was infected by that. 541 00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:58,076 It was almost like a lifestyle to her. 542 00:29:58,076 --> 00:30:01,510 She was running in-- in marathons, in races, and... 543 00:30:01,510 --> 00:30:04,309 was really a serious runner. 544 00:30:04,309 --> 00:30:08,510 Nike had just come out with its first running show for women. 545 00:30:08,576 --> 00:30:10,777 And she had a pair. 546 00:30:12,209 --> 00:30:16,043 [Ardith] Kaye and I ran, the two of us, a lot. 547 00:30:16,043 --> 00:30:20,143 I didn't think I could ever run on my own, without stopping. 548 00:30:20,143 --> 00:30:21,309 And she did. 549 00:30:21,309 --> 00:30:24,610 So, i decided, "Well, if she can do it, I can do it." 550 00:30:24,610 --> 00:30:27,376 She was my mentor, I guess. 551 00:30:28,543 --> 00:30:33,576 [Noel] We were real busy in our respective work environments. 552 00:30:34,076 --> 00:30:35,710 There were-- 553 00:30:35,777 --> 00:30:40,510 There were areas where we should have communicated better 554 00:30:40,510 --> 00:30:43,910 with one another instead of maybe assuming 555 00:30:43,910 --> 00:30:46,877 that we were on the same page. 556 00:30:48,610 --> 00:30:52,276 Investigators find, in her office, her calendar. 557 00:30:53,977 --> 00:30:59,977 Which showed that Kaye had relationships outside of her marriage. 558 00:31:00,109 --> 00:31:04,043 It was a surprise to Noel when investigators told him. 559 00:31:04,810 --> 00:31:07,309 He was aware that she was unhappy. 560 00:31:07,309 --> 00:31:11,076 But unaware that she was, um... 561 00:31:11,076 --> 00:31:14,276 You know, that she was seeing men outside of their-- of their marriage. 562 00:31:16,443 --> 00:31:20,276 [Noel] And they asked me if I'd take a polygraph test. 563 00:31:21,977 --> 00:31:25,610 I didn't have any qualms about doing it. 564 00:31:25,610 --> 00:31:31,977 But it was not a-- a comfortable experience. 565 00:31:34,443 --> 00:31:36,309 [Ardith] I mean, I guess they have to do that 566 00:31:36,309 --> 00:31:38,510 'cause it's always the husband and the wife 567 00:31:38,576 --> 00:31:40,877 or the-- 568 00:31:41,510 --> 00:31:44,610 He's so unlike... 569 00:31:44,677 --> 00:31:47,510 I don't know what the typical killer is, but... 570 00:31:47,510 --> 00:31:51,877 You know, Noel is one of the gentlest men I've ever known. 571 00:31:53,410 --> 00:31:54,877 [Noelle] He passed. 572 00:31:54,943 --> 00:31:58,309 There was nothing that linked him to his wife's disappearance. 573 00:31:58,376 --> 00:32:02,576 And the case just kind of didn't really-- Didn't really go anywhere. 574 00:32:05,010 --> 00:32:07,810 Not only had no suspect emerged, 575 00:32:07,810 --> 00:32:11,410 they still had no idea what had happened to Kaye. 576 00:32:11,410 --> 00:32:13,376 It was like she just vanished. 577 00:32:18,877 --> 00:32:22,576 [Noel] Sometime in the week after Christmas, 578 00:32:23,910 --> 00:32:26,043 it was a feeling of hopelessness 579 00:32:26,043 --> 00:32:31,176 for everybody that was participating in it to... 580 00:32:31,176 --> 00:32:33,243 to come to that conclusion. 581 00:32:35,209 --> 00:32:36,510 That they'd... 582 00:32:37,710 --> 00:32:40,610 ...gone over that area as much as they... 583 00:32:41,309 --> 00:32:44,410 ...thought they could have. Um... 584 00:32:45,810 --> 00:32:49,410 When you've... You know, you gotta... 585 00:32:50,076 --> 00:32:51,510 You gotta stop 586 00:32:52,309 --> 00:32:55,143 stop doing this at some point. 587 00:32:55,510 --> 00:32:56,677 And... 588 00:32:59,710 --> 00:33:01,276 And so... 589 00:33:02,176 --> 00:33:05,977 And I-- I don't remember who said-- talked to me. 590 00:33:15,176 --> 00:33:16,610 And they said... 591 00:33:22,043 --> 00:33:23,777 "Until you leave... 592 00:33:24,176 --> 00:33:26,410 [sobbing] 593 00:33:28,910 --> 00:33:31,143 "none of these people are gonna leave." 594 00:33:35,510 --> 00:33:38,376 So, then... [clears throat] 595 00:33:39,443 --> 00:33:41,476 Then shortly after that, 596 00:33:42,410 --> 00:33:44,677 I said, "Well, I gotta go home." 597 00:33:56,076 --> 00:33:57,710 [Noelle] Months pass. 598 00:33:58,209 --> 00:33:59,877 There are no suspects. 599 00:33:59,877 --> 00:34:02,410 You got the sense from the friends 600 00:34:02,410 --> 00:34:04,109 that there was this kind of frustration 601 00:34:04,109 --> 00:34:08,410 about the scope and scale of the search. 602 00:34:08,410 --> 00:34:11,043 [man 1] This area was searched once before, wasn't it? 603 00:34:11,043 --> 00:34:12,276 [man 2] Parts of it was. 604 00:34:13,309 --> 00:34:16,610 And other parts weren't searched hard enough. 605 00:34:16,677 --> 00:34:19,877 And we wanna see... We wanna look at it another time. 606 00:34:21,610 --> 00:34:24,209 We were getting frustrated 'cause we know something must have happened. 607 00:34:24,209 --> 00:34:25,410 So, we thought about a reward 608 00:34:25,476 --> 00:34:27,410 to kinda jumpstart the situation. 609 00:34:29,443 --> 00:34:32,877 [Noelle] Kaye's friends put up a $1,000 reward. 610 00:34:32,877 --> 00:34:36,877 Thinking that the suspect would come out to claim this reward. 611 00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:42,209 And that's exactly what happened. 612 00:34:55,109 --> 00:34:57,677 [Gary] A few months later, I'm doing something in the back. 613 00:34:59,109 --> 00:35:01,276 Chrissy says, "Gary, there's a guy at the counter 614 00:35:01,810 --> 00:35:03,309 "that wants to use the phones. 615 00:35:03,376 --> 00:35:05,076 "Says that he found some clothes in the woods." 616 00:35:05,076 --> 00:35:06,777 And I said, "Okay." 617 00:35:07,109 --> 00:35:08,309 So I went out. 618 00:35:08,376 --> 00:35:10,010 He says, "I was out rabbit-hunting with my dog, 619 00:35:10,010 --> 00:35:13,410 "and I found some clothes in the woods." 620 00:35:13,410 --> 00:35:16,109 Well, that's a red flag to me 'cause there's really no rabbits here. 621 00:35:17,543 --> 00:35:20,777 And he says, "Well, I found a pair of short, a shirt and a sweatshirt." 622 00:35:20,777 --> 00:35:23,610 And I say, "You know what? Probably not our jogger. 623 00:35:23,677 --> 00:35:25,510 "She didn't have a sweatshirt." 624 00:35:25,576 --> 00:35:27,309 And he just looked at me. 625 00:35:27,309 --> 00:35:29,276 He didn't say a word, he just looked at me. 626 00:35:30,043 --> 00:35:31,910 So I called the State Police. 627 00:35:31,910 --> 00:35:35,243 And I said, "Hey, we got a guy here that found some clothing." 628 00:35:36,777 --> 00:35:38,977 "He says, "I wonder if I get any reward for this." 629 00:35:38,977 --> 00:35:41,910 And I say something like, "Well, it's just clothes, 630 00:35:41,910 --> 00:35:44,276 "you know. No." 631 00:35:45,710 --> 00:35:48,777 So I'm filling up this propane tank behind the store, 632 00:35:48,777 --> 00:35:50,410 and Chrissy comes back 633 00:35:50,410 --> 00:35:52,977 and tells me, "Gary, this guy just told me he was 634 00:35:52,977 --> 00:35:54,977 "the last one to see Kaye Turner alive." 635 00:35:57,443 --> 00:35:58,977 So I didn't even talk to him. 636 00:35:59,043 --> 00:36:02,010 I went back to the phone, I called the cops and I said, 637 00:36:02,010 --> 00:36:04,410 "Would it make any difference to you folks 638 00:36:04,410 --> 00:36:07,877 "if I told you he just said he was the last one to see her alive." 639 00:36:07,943 --> 00:36:09,309 They said, "We're sending more people." 640 00:36:09,309 --> 00:36:11,109 [siren blaring] 641 00:36:11,109 --> 00:36:12,143 Boom. 642 00:36:12,977 --> 00:36:14,710 Who says something like that? 643 00:36:14,777 --> 00:36:15,877 The guy that killed her. 644 00:36:15,877 --> 00:36:16,810 Right? 645 00:36:16,810 --> 00:36:18,243 The last one to see her alive. 646 00:36:31,010 --> 00:36:34,209 [narrator] If a tree falls in the woods, an no one hears it, 647 00:36:34,209 --> 00:36:35,943 does it make a sound? 648 00:36:36,309 --> 00:36:38,610 The real question is 649 00:36:38,677 --> 00:36:40,677 What does it mean to exist? 650 00:36:41,109 --> 00:36:43,076 To be seen? 651 00:36:43,076 --> 00:36:46,209 If the tree is a woman, like Kaye Turner, 652 00:36:46,209 --> 00:36:47,877 and she screams, 653 00:36:48,343 --> 00:36:51,410 does her voice matter? 654 00:36:51,476 --> 00:36:55,276 Sometimes, a fallen tree can tell the story of what happened. 655 00:36:55,276 --> 00:36:58,977 But it can also be a warning of what will happen again. 656 00:37:02,510 --> 00:37:05,510 And in 1990, Santiam Junction, 657 00:37:05,510 --> 00:37:09,143 that is exactly the case with Rachanda Pickle. 658 00:37:12,810 --> 00:37:14,276 [reporter] Even with all the manpower, 659 00:37:14,276 --> 00:37:17,010 authorities say there is just too much ground to cover here. 660 00:37:17,010 --> 00:37:19,610 They think Rachanda met with foul play 661 00:37:19,677 --> 00:37:20,710 Her family hasn't heard from her. 662 00:37:20,777 --> 00:37:23,043 Authorities don't have any new leads. 663 00:37:23,043 --> 00:37:24,610 So, searchers are resigned to the fact 664 00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:27,243 that they aren't going to find any good news here. 665 00:37:28,910 --> 00:37:30,510 [Byron] It was horrible, 666 00:37:30,576 --> 00:37:32,877 knowing how she'd get homesick, you know. 667 00:37:32,943 --> 00:37:35,710 And how dependent she was upon my mom. 668 00:37:35,777 --> 00:37:36,977 I knew... 669 00:37:38,076 --> 00:37:40,877 I knew something bad happened. 670 00:37:40,877 --> 00:37:44,109 As bad as it sounds, I was hoping she got kidnapped and we would find her. 671 00:37:47,043 --> 00:37:50,276 [Mike] You are hoping for the best, like, "Oh, she's lost." 672 00:37:50,343 --> 00:37:54,877 But mentally, a detective's preparing himself for worst-case scenario. 673 00:37:54,877 --> 00:37:58,777 Especially if we don't find the child within 48 hours. 674 00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:00,410 Especially up in the woods... 675 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:11,510 [Mark] The statistics show that 88% of the time 676 00:38:11,510 --> 00:38:14,410 the victim knows their assailant. 677 00:38:14,476 --> 00:38:18,877 So, you look at people closest around someone 678 00:38:18,877 --> 00:38:20,510 when they disappear. 679 00:38:22,010 --> 00:38:24,309 [Mike] Sometimes it may be offensive to parents 680 00:38:24,309 --> 00:38:26,777 when we ask some of the questions we have 681 00:38:26,777 --> 00:38:28,710 but, you know, the parents were the last one to see 'em. 682 00:38:28,710 --> 00:38:30,076 We gotta ask certain questions 683 00:38:30,076 --> 00:38:32,176 to rule them out and move on, 684 00:38:32,176 --> 00:38:33,309 or to other people. 685 00:38:33,309 --> 00:38:35,810 We interviewed many people, 686 00:38:35,810 --> 00:38:39,276 including Rachanda's mother, Linda Ackroyd. 687 00:38:41,510 --> 00:38:42,476 [tape clicks] 688 00:38:43,343 --> 00:38:45,043 [officer speaking] 689 00:38:49,510 --> 00:38:52,176 [Linda speaking] 690 00:39:25,209 --> 00:39:29,043 [Mark] I felt like Linda was just... 691 00:39:29,910 --> 00:39:31,710 laying out what she knew. 692 00:39:31,710 --> 00:39:36,710 And she was very pen and forthright. 693 00:39:36,710 --> 00:39:39,043 I don't think she was lying about it. 694 00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:43,343 I think she just really didn't know what happened. 695 00:39:48,143 --> 00:39:50,410 [John speaking] 696 00:39:51,443 --> 00:39:52,977 [officer speaking] 697 00:40:32,276 --> 00:40:34,510 [Noelle] Some people in the family thought 698 00:40:34,510 --> 00:40:37,343 maybe Steven Pickle was to blame. 699 00:40:38,410 --> 00:40:40,810 We know, from court records, 700 00:40:40,810 --> 00:40:43,476 he had sexually abused another child. 701 00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:46,276 Children are not safe in his care. 702 00:40:46,343 --> 00:40:49,510 His own daughter didn't feel safe in his care. 703 00:40:49,576 --> 00:40:54,576 Well, that's kind of what I thought Rachanda was running away from. 704 00:40:58,410 --> 00:41:00,176 [Steve speaking] 705 00:41:37,710 --> 00:41:43,710 He was not in the area during the time in which Rachanda went missing. 706 00:41:43,710 --> 00:41:46,777 He was in Medford, a long ways away, 707 00:41:46,843 --> 00:41:48,476 with his son. 708 00:41:50,043 --> 00:41:53,476 But John could not account for his time. 709 00:41:55,010 --> 00:41:56,109 [John speaking] 710 00:41:56,109 --> 00:41:57,877 Well, she thought that I did something to Channy 711 00:42:00,176 --> 00:42:03,643 I loved Chandy. I did not do nothin' to Channy.