10 years later: 'My heart feels as broken today as the day I found out' - KVAL
- Campers found the dead bodies of Steven Haugen, Jeanette Bauman and their dog Caesar on July 1, 2005, at a remote campsite near Staley Creek, south of Oakridge. "A little bit surreal," the detective sergeant with the Lane County Sheriff's Office said, "something like that you would envision out of a horror movie. Investigators found shell casings from both a high- and a low-powered weapon, suggesting the pair may have been shot from a distance - and then shot again from a closer range of 5 to 7 feet. "This is somebody who probably killed people probably not known to them," Wilkerson said, "and did it for killing's sake. "Once these cases go on and start getting a little dust on them, they get harder and harder to solve," said Spence Slater, police captain with the sheriff's office. But some items were taken from Haugen's 1994 GMC Jimmy. Also missing: the car's license plates. Lane County detectives don't think so. Neither does the FBI. "FBI's theory is that this is trophy stuff - the license plate," Slater said. Slater says one theory is that this could be the work of what's called a "superhunter". Slater says according to the FBI, a superhunter is someone who moves into a National Forest and calls it their own. The FBI has said they are territorial and can. Source: www.kval.com
