No matter how much we persevere or how many hours we spend investigating, there remain
some life mysteries that were never meant to be solved—but they make for great television
at least.
Shows like "Cold Case Files" and "Unsolved Mysteries" gained nationwide approval for
telling the stories of countless true crimes that have no ending.
To bring the mystery into our own backyards, keep watching for Top 10 Oregon's famous
creepiest unsolved mysteries.
10 Jeremy Doland Bright Jeremy attended the Coos County Fair in Oregon
with his nine-year-old sister and a group of his friends on August 14, 1986.
He and his sister separated at 2:00 p.m., agreeing to meet up again near the ferris
wheel at 5:00.
He never showed up at their meeting place and has never been seen again.
Jeremy lived in Grants Pass, Oregon in 1986, but he had grown up in Myrtle Point and had
many relatives living there.
He and his younger sister enjoyed the fair and their stepfather agreed to take them there
for the week so they could go to the festivities.
There were several possible sightings of Jeremy in the local area in the days following his
disappearance, but none of them were confirmed.
He was a basketball player in 1986, and was looking forward to starting high school.
Many rumors circulated about his disappearance but none of them have been substantiated,
but the Coos County Sheriff believes he died the day he was last seen.
Authorities do not believe Jeremy left of his own accord.
He was close to his sister and it would have been uncharacteristic of him to abandon her,
and he did not take his wallet or extra clothes when he went missing.
His mother and stepfather were going through a divorce in 1986 and he may have been somewhat
troubled as a result; his grades dropped during the school year prior to his disappearance.
However, he was described as a popular, likeable teenager and a star basketball player who
was looking forward to the start of the school year.
Due to the lack of evidence in Jeremy's case, it is classified as a non-family abduction
and a potential homicide.
His family believes he's deceased and they held a memorial service for him in August
2011, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his disappearance.
Jeremy's mother thinks his body is somewhere in Coos County.
His case is unsolved.
9 Robert Michael Bobo Bobo was camping in a remote area in the Rogue
River National Forest between Prospect, Oregon and Union Creek, Oregon in October 1998.
A female friend dropped him off at his campsite in the Woodruff Meadows area near 700 Road
on October 2, 1998.
Bobo was last seen at approximately 9:00 p.m. by two area hunters.
He has never been heard from again.
One of his friends arrived the following morning for the opening of hunting season and discovered
he was gone.
He was reported as a missing person at that time.
Bobo left behind all of his belongings, including his favorite baseball cap, two rifles, all
his clothes and all his camping gear.
He is not believed to have had any money with him at the time of his disappearance.
Numerous searches were conducted of the area around Bobo's campsite, but no evidence was
uncovered.
Authorities stated there were no indications of foul play, but they do not believe Bobo
left of his own accord.
They believe he may have been scouting another campsite and become injured or had a medical
emergency and was unable to get back to his own camp.
Bobo's relatives fear he met with foul play, however; his brother stated he never went
anywhere without wearing his baseball cap and would not have voluntarily left it behind
at the campsite.
Bobo was employed as a part-time woodcutter at the time of his disappearance, and lived
in Prospect.
His case remains unsolved.
8 Celia Darlene Barnes Barnes was last seen hiking near the 6000
block of the right fork of Sardine Creek Road, in the area around the "House of Mystery"
in Gold Hill, Oregon on September 1, 2002.
She had gone hiking that day with her sister.
They separated to look for aluminum cans.
They were supposed to rendezvous at Barnes's sister's car, but Barnes never showed up and
has never been seen again.
She had been reported missing before when she got lost while hiking, but was found safe
and was angry at her family for sending out a search party.
As a result, this time her family waited 30 hours before informing the authorities.
Barnes may have been spotted on the day of her disappearance by a man who said she told
him she was going back to her sister's car.
Another witness might have seen Barnes at the valley of Rogue State Park.
Tracker dogs traced her scent to the off-ramp of north Interstate 5.
Police believe she walked down Sardine Creek Road to the highway.
Two residents of the neighborhood reported having seen her.
None of these sightings have been confirmed.
A week after Barnes disappeared, a man in Gold Hill found the bronze ski pole she used
as a walking stick.
He has passed a polygraph and is not considered a suspect in her case.
Barnes resided in the 100 block of Brookside Boulevard in Merlin, Oregon at the time of
her disappearance.
She is an experienced hiker and an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam.
Her family does not believe she left of her own accord and think she may have been abducted,
but little evidence is available as to her fate.
7 Kenneth Budlong Budlong was last seen on September 24, 1995.
He went on a solo climb up Mount Hood, a 11,235-foot peak in Mount Hood National Forest.
He was climbing Cathedral Ridge on the left side of the mountain, a route he'd never taken
before.
When he didn't call home the next afternoon, his family became concerned.
A search was launched on September 26, and search teams found Budlong's tent near the
McNeil Point shelter, at the 7,000-foot level.
Inside was a backpack, a sleeping bag, a climbing book and a Bible.
There was no sign of Budlong, however.
He has never been heard from again.
The search efforts were hampered by freezing rain and high winds.
Budlong is a very experienced climber; he'd climbed Mount Hood 22 times before, and other
mountains as well, and he'd survived an avalanche a few years before his disappearance.
He was well-equipped with food and survival gear when he went missing, including a space
blanket, warm clothing, crampons and an ice ax.
He didn't have his helmet, however.
Authorities believe Budlong suffered an accident on the mountain, possibly on the Reid Glacier,
but his body has never been recovered.
He was employed as a global inventory manager for Nike at the time of his disappearance.
6 Benita Gay Chamberlin Chamberlin was last seen between 10:00 and
11:00 a.m. on February 23, 1978, leaving Sacred Heart General Hospital in the vicinity of
13th Avenue and Hilyard Street in Eugene, Oregon.
She had given birth on February 13 and was released from the hospital, but her baby daughter
remained hospitalized due to prematurity and low birth weight.
Chamberlin went to the hospital that day to nurse the baby.
She was told she could take her home sometime after 1:30 p.m., and telephoned a female friend
to tell her the good news.
She has never been heard from again.
Her mother reported her missing at 1:00 a.m. on February 24.
At 2:30 a.m. that day, Chamberlin's purse was found lying on the ground in a parking
lot on the University of Oregon campus.
Shortly after 5:00 a.m., her blue 1966 Mercury Comet was found in the parking lot of a Coca-Cola
bottling factory on Franklin Boulevard, near the hospital.
There was no sign of her at the scene.
Chamberlin was in the process of a divorce at the time of her disappearance.
She was separated from her husband and lived in the 20 block of Howard Avenue; her older
two daughters lived with their father.
She had worked as a maid at the Holiday Inn on Coberg Road for approximately five months
before she went on maternity leave.
Her coworkers said she was well-liked and a reliable employee, and she was also described
as a dedicated parent.
who would never have left her three children, the oldest of whom was seven years old in
1978.
She is a graduate of Churchill High School.
Her case remains unsolved and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are unclear.
5 Angela Lynn Chan Chan was last seen by her husband of two years,
Bruce Chan, when he dropped her off at their home in the 1500 block of southwest Lava Avenue
in Redmond, Oregon on the morning of March 27, 1989.
They had been trap shooting together.
After he dropped her off, Bruce returned to his station at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside,
California, where he served at a lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
Two days later, on March 29, Angela's family members reported her missing.
Her yellow Datsun B-210 was found that same day in a pullout along Highway 126 near the
Cline Falls Bridge, west of Redmond.
It was still operable and had fuel in the tank, but the passenger window had been smashed
in with a rock.
Angela's shoes and purse were inside the vehicle.
Angela has never been heard from again.
Bruce and Angela were separated in 1989; he was at Camp Pendleton, and she had moved back
in with her mother in Redmond and was seeing another man.
She told her mother she wanted a divorce and was going to tell Bruce when she saw him on
the day she vanished.
In spite of the problems in her marriage, her family stated she was happy and planned
to move forward with her life.
Authorities believe Bruce may have been involved in her disappearance, but there is no evidence
to support this theory besides the circumstances.
He now lives in Arizona.
Although authorities initially believed she'd left of her own accord, Angela is now considered
to be missing under suspicious circumstances.
Foul play is suspected in her case, which remains unsolved.
4 Jeromy Ivan Childress Childress was on an annual elk hunting trip
with Shane Luey and Luey's young son, Shane Jr., in Tillamook County, Oregon on October
17, 2004.
He was last seen at 4:30 p.m. that day at Tucca Creek Road and Boundary Road in the
Tillamook National Forest.
He was was carrying a rifle, a wallet, his car keys, half a pack of cigarettes, and possibly
a pocketknife at the time of his disappearance.
Childress became separated from his companions in the forest after they became lost trying
to find their way back to camp.
He walked into the brush alone, saying he thought he could find the camp by himself.
The Lueys eventually made it to the rendezvous point, but Childress never arrived.
All of his overnight gear was left behind at camp.
He has never been heard from again and an extensive search turned up no clues as to
his whereabouts.
At the time of his disappearance, Childress was employed as an industrial bridge painter
and blaster.
He enjoys hunting, fishing, and boating and he has two young children.
The area where he vanished is very steep, rugged, brush-covered terrain with lots of
gullies and fallen trees, and populated with wild animals including bears, cougars and
coyotes.
Foul play is not suspected in his disappearance; it is believed that Childress became lost
or injured in the wilderness and died.
His wife obtained a death certificate for him in 2006 based on that theory.
His case still remains unsolved.
3 Theresa Ann Davidson-Murphy Theresa resided with her husband, Richard
Murphy, and her two children in Rainier, Oregon in 1999.
The family lived in the 72000 block of Hutchison Road.
They relocated from Puyallup, Washington in July 1999 to be closer to Richard's relatives.
Richard and Theresa had been married since 1998.
A photo of Richard is posted below this case summary.
Theresa dropped her daughter off at a friend's home for a sleepover on October 7, 1999.
Richard told authorities that his wife returned to their hime afterwards.
He departed on a camping trip to Browns Creek in the Olympic National Forest in Mason County,
Washington later in the evening.
He told investigators that Theresa had disappeared by the time he returned home the following
day.
Her sister-in-law reported her missing on October 23, more than two weeks after her
disappearance.
The reasons for the delay of the report are unknown.
All of Theresa's personal belongings were inside the house.
Her pickup truck was parked near the residence with the keys in the ignition.
Theresa has never been heard from again.
Her sister-in-law reported her as a missing person on October 23, 16 days after she vanished.
Richard also reported that the family's 1991 Colt 1911 A-1 .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun
with serial number 2757178 was missing from their home after his wife disappeared.
The weapon has never been located.
Her two teenage daughters were placed in their father's custody and moved out of her home
with Richard later in 1999.
They now live in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
In August 2001, nearly two years after her disappearance, authorities announced that
they believe Theresa is deceased.
Her case remains unsolved.
2 Stephanie Douglas Stephanie was last seen at 10:30 p.m. on November
27, 1990, when she put her three children and her niece to bed in their McMinnville,
Oregon residence.
Sometime during the night she apparently taped a note to her neighbor's door, reading "Please
check in on my kids.
I had an emergecy."
She has never been heard from again.
Stephanie's husband, Stan Douglas, arrived home from work the following morning and found
the children safe in bed and his wife missing.
Stan told the police he found her car the morning after her disappearance in the parking
lot of a department store in McMinnville.
Other cars in the lot were covered with ice, but Stephanie's car was not.
Harold Stookey was convicted of murdering Stephanie's best friend, June Cross, who disappeared
two weeks after Stephanie did.
Cross vanished from Tacoma, Washington, but her body was found in Yamhill County, Oregon,
where Stephanie lived.
Authorities believe Stookey convinced Stephanie to leave her home the night she went missing,
but they are unsure why.
One theory is that she went into the woods to retrieve a cache of drugs.
Stookey refused to take a lie detector test in Stephanie's case an also denied involvement
in Cross's murder.
Stookey is not the only suspect in Stephanie's case; she had been involved with drugs and
prostitution and knew several violent criminals.
Stan had allegedly been abusive towards his wife and he failed a lie detector test after
her disappearance, but he had an alibi for the time she vanished and authorities have
never been able to tie him to her case.
Stephanie was also a close friend of Larry Shipley, a convicted murderer who had once
been married to Cross, but no evidence links Shipley to Stephanie's disappearance.
Scott Cox, a presumed serial killer who is currently incarcerated, is another possible
suspect.
Authorities investigated several possible sightings of Stephanie in the months following
her disappearance, but none of the sightings were confirmed.
They believe she was murdered, but they cannot charge any suspect due to a lack of evidence.
Her case remains unsolved.
1 Ann Marie Ellinwood Ann was last seen in Corvallis, Oregon on
April 15, 1978.
She participated in a March of Dimes Walk-A-Thon, her third, that day.
The route was on a bike path along the Marys River.
At 1:00 p.m., Ann told her friends her feet hurt and they should go on without her.
She said she would go to a checkpoint at the Gill Coliseum.
She was last seen near the Pioneer Park ball field, across Highway 34 from the coliseum.
Ann has never been heard from again.
She had an afternoon paper route delivering the Gazette-Times, but never showed up for
it, which is uncharacteristic of her.
Her parents reported her missing at 5:15 p.m.
An extensive search of the area turned up no sign of the child.
A red pickup truck with a teardrop-shaped trailer was seen in the area around the time
of her disappearance.
Eleven-year-old Stephanie Newsom disappeared from West Salem, Oregon on April 19, four
days after Ann.
The girls were similar in age and appearance and were last seen walking alone during the
daylight hours.
Due to the similarities, police immediately suspected the disappearances were linked.
They were looking for a possible suspect in Ann's case, described as a Caucasian man with
a stocky build, reddish-brown or sandy hair, a gruff voice and possibly a mustache.
The suspect in Stephanie's case had a similar appearance: stocky, in his late twenties,
with shaggy light brown hair.
Stephanie's partially clothed body was found on April 25 in a field next to the Ankeny
Wildlife Refuge.
She had been dead for several days.
Investigators determined she'd been raped and strangled.
By May, police had identified a suspect in Ann's disappearance and Stephanie's murder:
Earl F. "Woody" Chambers.
A photo of him is posted below this case summary.
He had a prior record for rape and assault of young women, and he owned a red pickup
truck and a teardrop-shaped trailer, like the one seen in the area where Ann disappeared.
Police brought him in for questioning, and he denied any involvement in Ann's disappearance.
He was ordered to appear before a grand jury on June 6.
The afternoon of June 6, however, Chambers's body was found in a rural area in Linn County,
Oregon.
He had committed suicide, without leaving a note.
The investigation went cold after Chambers's death, but since 1978 law enforcement had
made periodic efforts to resolve Ann's disappearance and Stephanie's murder.
Hair found in Chambers's trailer and vehicle, believed to be Ann's, was tested for DNA in
2005, but the results were inconclusive.
Chambers remains the prime suspect in Ann's disappearance.
Ann was a seventh-grader at Highland View Junior High School at the time of her disappearance.
Foul play is suspected in her disappearance, which remains unsolved.
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