Ghosts of Highway 20

The team that worked on the multiple-part series were reporter Noelle Crombie, video editor and producer Dave Killen, and photojournalist Beth Nakamura.

The rodeo was ninety miles from their home in Lebanon and was her first night out since she had given birth to her baby girl three months earlier.

Although the evidence, including the rape kit and her bruised body, supported her story, the police did not prosecute Ackroyd.

[4] In August 1979, Ackroyd reported that he had found Turner's remains in the woods, about a half mile off the road that she had been running along.

[1][2] Police were surprised that Ackroyd had claimed the remains were of Kaye Turner, because little was found of her besides scraps of her clothes and scattered bones.

Over time, he disclosed that he talked with her before picking up another man, Roger Dale Beck, who was a friend and fellow hunter who lived in the Camp Sherman area.

[6][9] Testimony from Beck's ex-wife, Pam Ramirez and new forensic testing are credited with helping prosecute the case.

[10] A massive search was conducted by 100 police officers from seven counties, but was unsuccessful in finding any leads to Rachanda's disappearance.

[12] After compiling evidence including a number of interviews,[12] police arrested Ackroyd and he was charged with Rachanda's murder in April 2014.

[1][2] According to Linn County District Attorney Doug Marteeny, his office reached a deal with Byron Pickle, the victim's brother, that placed the prosecution of the murder on hold "in a manner that would ensure that Mr. Ackroyd would remain in prison until his death.

When the Sanders woke in the morning, the girls were gone and presumed to have had friends bring them back to Sweet Home.

The night of the girl's disappearance, Ackroyd had returned to the state highway shop in Sweet Home covered in blood, which he stated belonged to a deer he had encountered and had to "gut…out.” When asked what happened to the deer’s carcass, Ackroyd said that he had thrown it in the brush near where he worked along Highway 20 between the coast and Sweet Home.

[8] Police have tied the four homicide and one assault and rape cases to Ackroyd, and also believe him to have been responsible for the deaths of a number of other people in the area at the time he was suspected to have been active.

A moss hunter in Linn County at Sweet Home, Oregon discovered the unidentified skeletal remains of a woman on July 24, 1976, along Highway 20 close to Swamp Mountain Road.

Ackroyd is the prime suspect in her presumed murder but her identity still remains unestablished and she is referred to by authorities as the Swamp Mountain Jane Doe.

Authorities believe Grissom left with Lee intending to hitchhike to California, only to disappear two days after taking off.

The two teens called a friend from a payphone in Lebanon, Oregon after leaving home, which was cut short when Karen said, "Our ride is here.

The items included Rodney's watch and some of his other belongings, along with Karen's trousers, some notebook pages, and a blouse that she had made.

The following year, her bones were discovered in a shallow grave in the woods near Green Peter Reservoir's Thistle Creek exit on Highway 20 in Linn County.

On April 27, 1978, another unidentified woman's skull was found in a wooded area off of U.S. Route 20 in eastern Linn County, Oregon.

[20] On August 27, 1978, at 7 a.m., two men from Milton-Freewater, Oregon were hunting in the Finley Creek Cow Camp close to Elgin when they came across skeletal remains at a nearby grave.

[21] In 1986, two Forest Service workers found a partial human skull, some additional bone fragments and one tooth near Government Camp off U.S. 26 on Mount Hood in Clackamas County, Oregon.

Genealogical investigation and DNA testing on the skull identified Wanda Ann Herr, aged 19, as a potential match.