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gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:06 am Post subject: Brooke Wilberger Remains Found! |
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The suspect in the Brooke Wilberger missing case has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and kidnapping.
When Brooke went missing from an apartment complex she was never located. Maybe this criminal will cut a deal and tell LE where Brooke is. Let us hope this occurs. This is possible since they will be seeking the death penalty for his crime after extradition in Brooke's case.
http://crime.about.com/b/2007/12/17/wilberger-suspect-sentenced-in-new-mexico.htm?nl=1
From Charles Montaldo,
Your Guide to Crime / Punishment.
Wilberger Suspect Sentenced in New Mexico
The man suspected in the disappearance of college student Brooke Wilberger has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a rape and kidnapping in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joel Patrick Courtney now faces extradition back to Oregon to face trial for the 2004 murder of the 19-year-old Brigham Young University student.
Benton County, Oregon, District Attorney John Haroldson plans to seek the death penalty when Courtney goes on trial. Officials said the extradition would probably be completed within 90 days.
"Now that justice has been served here, the State of New Mexico will do everything in its power to see that justice is served in Oregon," New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson told reporters. "We will process this extradition as quickly as possible to help bring peace to the Wilberger family."
Kidnapping, Rape and Sodomy
Last week, Courtney was sentenced to nine years for rape and 18 for kidnapping a University of New Mexico student. The two sentences will run concurrently under a plea deal worked out by his attorney, although Courtney tried to back out of the deal at the last minute.
While awaiting trial in New Mexico, Courtney was indicted on charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping, rape and sodomy in connection with the Wilberger case.
In May 2004, Brooke Wilberger was staying in Corvallis, Oregon with her sister and her husband. She was working at the apartment complex her sister managed. She was cleaning light fixtures in the parking lot when she disappeared. She has never been found.
See Also:
DA Seeks Extradition for Courtney
Man Gets 18 Years in Albuquerque Rape
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Missing: Brooke Carol Wilberger |
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gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:14 am Post subject: Missing 4 years now |
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Brooke has been missing for 4 years now. The suspect won't come to trial till 2010.
OMG, what kind of justice is that.
Prayers go out to her family for all they have had to endure and all they will continue to face.
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gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:14 am Post subject: Remains Located. Killer pleads Guilty |
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May Brook rest in peace now that she has been found and the scum who never should have been walking the streets is in prison for life.
Thank God he lead police to the body even if it was for a plea at least her family can move on. This was a big case.
Prayers go out to her family.
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By Kimberly A.C. Wilson,
The Oregonian
September 21, 2009, 12:40PM
Brooke Wilberger's remains found; killer pleads guilty
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/brooke_wilbergers_remains_foun.html
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More than five years after she was abducted from Oregon State University and presumed killed, the remains of Brooke Wilberger have been found and her suspected killer has pleaded guilty.
Patrick Courtney faced a possible death sentence when he went to trial next February in Benton County for aggravated murder in Wilberger's death. But today, after a change of venue to Marion County Circuit Court, Courtney, a 43-year-old native of unincorporated Washington County, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to prison for life with no possibility of release.
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As a part of the plea agreement, Benton County District Attorney John M. Haroldson obtained clues that helped locate and recover Wilberger's remains. Authorities are withholding details of where -- and what -- they found until a 4 p.m. press conference in Corvallis.
Wilberger, 19, disappeared on May 24, 2004, while she was working a summer job at a Corvallis apartment house after completing her freshman year at Brigham Young University.
Two residents of the apartment building heard a "bloodcurdling" scream about the time she vanished. Only her flip-flops were found, but she was presumed dead.
A few months later, another blond, blue-eyed student escaped a brutal kidnap and rape attack on the campus of the University of New Mexico. The Russian foreign exchange student told police her attacker was Courtney. He was ultimately convicted of kidnapping and raping that young woman.
When an Albuquerque police detective investigating the case made a call to Oregon to check on Courtney's 1991 sex abuse conviction in Washington County, investigators in Oregon looked closer at him as a suspect in the Wilberger case.
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