YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. They pressed him again and again about his interactions with Kaye. If a jury. achanda Pickles stepfather could turn angry in a flash. Vacuum the house. Who was the last person that saw her, do you know?the dispatcher asked the girl's mother. McAnulty wondered if an ex-wife might see the events of the distant past in a different light. Jim Salsbery was instrumental in the investigation that culminated with Ackroyds conviction in the death of Kaye Jean Turner. Rachanda's stepfather, John Arthur Ackroyd, is the last person known to have seen her. However, as recounted by family members, later on, she never ventured too far out into the woods unless she had her big brother Byron with her. His wife, Pam, said the two men were around the trailer for most of the morning, which helped give Ackroyd an alibi. No, the bewildered dispatcher said, thats not true, not with children., The dispatcher asked: Who was the last person that saw her, do you know?, GONE FROM SANTIAM JUNCTION (Photo 1 of 7): Rachanda Pickle didnt like living at Santiam Junction. Teams were assigned to 60 subsections and also also searched dozens of dirt roads in the rural, sparsely populated area. Sometime after he moved, Ackroyd was in his truck with the daughter of an old friend. SALEM John Arthur Ackroyd, who in 2013 was charged with the 1990 murder of his stepdaughter Rachanda Pickle, has died of natural causes at the Oregon State Penitentiary in . He had his sisters image tattooed on his arm last year. We just don't want people to forget that she's gone.". Then, in the waning days of December 2016, it was announced that 67-year-old John Arthur Ackroyd, who had long been suffering from numerous health issues, had passed away from heart disease inside of his prison cell. He later told police that when he did return, the front door was partly open, and a pellet gun he owned was propped up against a camper, with a box of pellets nearby. On that date, Ackroyd had asked, through his attorneys, for an expedited trial date because of some lingering health concerns. At around the same time, Rachanda's stepfather John would tell reporters with the Albany Democrat-Herald: "At this point, we're hoping that she did run away and that she's safe and sound somewhere. We always believed Ackroyd had something to do with his stepdaughters murder, said Salsbery, who retired in 1996. The night of RachandaPickles disappearance, John Ackroydinitiated sex with Linda Ackroyd. He rattled off the girls weight and bra size but couldnt remember her birthday. When he returned to the house at approximately 12:45 p.m., Rachanda had vanished. She's real fond of her makeup.". Ackroyd was charged in Rachanda's murder in April 2013. In interviews, Ackroyd dwelled on how the teen had gotten her period and had begun to develop. Rachanda and her brother regularly went to school with bruises, and Rachanda told her friends Ackroyd had caused the injuries. Rachanda was a good kid, helping around the house and taking care not to stray far. While police had always kept John Ackroyd at the top of their suspect list, they never had enough evidence to pursue charges against anyone. If we could find her remains, we could say our final goodbye, but at this point, we don't have anything We still think about her. This is what had led to him leading police to the body of Kaye Turner eight months after her death because, as prosecutors noted, he wanted to try and obtain the reward money being offered at the time. Current Sheriff Tim Mueller was a deputy involved with the search and rescue team in 1990. This fact alone made investigators suspicious, but paired together with all of the other red flags in John Ackroyd's past, put him at the very top of their suspect list. Occasionally, Ackroyd would reach for one of the Fireball candies he carried in his pocket. However, he would transfer away from the Santiam Junction location - where he had worked and lived for more than a decade - to a state highway shop near Corvallis. Cops went to search a storage unit Ackroyd had rented the year before, only to find hed cleared it out days earlier. He was arrested a little less than two years later for his involvement in the murder of Kaye Turner, and spent the rest of his shitty, miserable life behind bars. That winter, Kaye and her husband, Noel, had decided to head up to a cabin in the Camp Sherman area. She did, and because of this wait, Rachanda wasn't reported missing until Wednesday, July 11th, and the search to find her wouldn't begin until the day after that, Thursday, July 12th. Lifesaving: Family flees Texas to transgender 'refuge' Minnesota. Didnt do anything to Kaye Jean Turner? McAnulty asked, his voice cool. Two hours later, he was back, but this time he made sure she saw him. It just didnt add up., John Arthur Ackroyd is accused of killing his stepdaughter, Rachanda Pickle, who vanished in 1990. Within months, without a body or physical evidence implicating Ackroyd, so did the investigation. While his marriage to Linda was rather unusual - the couple divorced after a year, but continued to live together and were still technically a "couple" in every sense of the word - the family seemed to have become accustomed to this quiet little corner of the world. Somebody could have just come in, he said, knocked her over the head, throw her over the shoulders and just walk out without anybody seeing her. By now, investigators knew who they were dealing with. Yet even in those types of cases, the terms of a plea agreement aren't generally secret. So, lots of NKOTB, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Martika - you know, all the old school late 80's/early 90's goodness. In the early morning hours of July 10, 1990 John and Linda Ackroyd left their residence at the Oregon Department of Transportation shops at the Santiam Junction in east Linn County, Oregon. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. This time, the DA -- and the cops who believed Ackroyd had gotten away with Kaye Turners killing -- were determined to get the highway worker off the street for good. You could win the lottery four or five times before something like that would happen, Salsbery said. Where is she? Linda asked Ackroyd as darkness enveloped the highway compound. Rachanda's new stepfather, John, worked as a mechanic for the Oregon Highway Division and had already been living at this maintenance complex for over a decade by the time Linda, Byron, and Rachanda moved in. Her mother was at work at the time of her disappearance. This was unusual and definitely out of the ordinary, but it wasn't enough for John to take notice at the time, it seems. Kaye had been raped and shot, Beck told Pam. The family had lived at the state highway compound for six years. The family had lived at the state highway compound for six years. Over the course of the investigation, he acted strangely. Years later, his ex-wife told police Beck and John Ackroyd told her to lie to police about their whereabouts the morning of Kaye's disappearance. Detectives moved on. He remains just one suspect of many in that case, but a strong one nonetheless. He refused to disclose the location of Rachanda's body and his plea didn't require him to. To some, she seemed lost, almost invisible. Detective Mike Harmon with the Linn County Sheriff's Office told reporters: "It's difficult to prove that a 13-year-old doesn't exist. After all, she's a teenage girl.". Didnt do anything to Channy? the cop pressed. While investigating Rachanda's disappearance, detectives turned up evidence linking her stepfather John Arthur Ackroyd to the murder of Kaye Jean Turner, a 35-year-old woman from Eugene who was. She has never been heard from again. The photograph also shows the girls suitcase hadnt been unpacked after a recent trip to see her father. Police would begin to reach out to those close to Rachanda and learned that John had been abusive to Rachanda and her brother in the past. In March of 1996, police would investigate the origins of a partial skull recovered near Crawfordsville, about fifty miles east of where Rachanda had last been seen alive. Byron was Rachandas companion and playground protector. This involved search effort would cease their searches after Friday - three days after Rachanda had last been seen alive - but the Linn County Mounted Posse would carry on, and would be joined by employees from the U.S. Forest Service. For years Ackroyd was the prime suspect in Rachanda's case, and her family believed he had murdered her. The girl who was good about leaving notes if she headed out to play Nintendo at a neighbors house hadnt left one. Donations are accepted but not expected; the site remains free-access to all. They also might have belonged to an indigenous person that lived in the area centuries beforehand. Seiber, 41, said Rachanda and her older brother, Byron, came to school with bruises. Read the story Tagged: The Oregonian Support Longreads She introduced the women to him and they climbed in. Melissa Sanders was 17 and from Sweet Home. One of Rachanda's dolls sits atop a shelf in the tidy manufactured home in California where her mother now lives. However, on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 - nearly 23 years after his stepdaughter's disappearance - John Arthur Ackroyd would be charged with her murder by Linn County prosecutors. He would be charged with two counts of aggravated murder and three counts of murder, accused of conspiring to kidnap, rape, and murder Kaye Jean Turner nearly two decades prior. When parent conferences rolled around, no one showed up. Also, it was determined that John's accomplice, Roger Dale Beck, had told friends and family about the killing and had threatened them never to tell or they would suffer the same fate. Dec 31, 2016. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. She was last seen at her home on July 10, 1990. At the time, journalists with the Oregonian and Oregon Live were investigating this story for their amazing "Ghosts of Highway 20" project (which I honestly can't recommend enough, it's an amazing piece of journalism that you all should check out). On Tuesday, April 2, John Ackroyd was arrested and transported to the Linn County Jail for the homicide of Rachanda Pickle. A tipster had claimed that Rachanda was still alive, and residing in eastern Linn County. Noelle Crombie | The Oregonian/OregonLive. For some reason, however, the agreement had been kept confidential for over three years, until after Ackroyd's death. While the case would remain registered as open and/or unsolved in the Oregon state database, there was no movement to proceed with Ackroyd's trial for the murder of Rachanda Pickle. In fall 2013, according to the unsealed court records, Ackroyd agreed not to seek parole and to decline release even if he became eligible in exchange for his no contest plea in his stepdaughter's death. Detectives refused to name this a cold case, continuing to work on it regularly, but would have very little to show for it after several months. Word that Ackroyds stepdaughter had vanished spread quickly to neighboring Jefferson County, where Kaye Turner had been killed more than a decade earlier. He would eventually move back, however, to be closer to family. My children know they did have an Aunt Rachanda.. The couple married in the mid-1980s but divorced after a year. After a four-week trial which took place in the latter half of 1993, John Arthur Ackroyd was convicted for Kaye Turner's death and was later given five life sentences without the possibility of parole. And he wouldnt leave her either. This had originally been discovered by a dog, but the dog's owner called police to the scene, leading to a full-scale dig of the area where the skull had been found, which uncovered some additional fragments of bone. *Wiem, e le wymawiaam imi Rachandy, ale niestety musicie mi wybaczy*13-letnia Rachanda Pickle zagina ze swojego domu w Oregonie w 1990 roku. John's accomplice, Roger Dale Beck, was convicted on almost identical grounds and continues to be housed in the Oregon State Penitentiary. Rachanda was Ackroyd's 13-year-old stepdaughter who vanished in 1990 from the family home at the Santiam Junction highway compound. The family lived at the state highway division compound at Santiam Junction, where U.S. 20 and Oregon 22 meet. 5,000-foot mountain pass in the southern reaches of the Cascade Mountains). The Oregon Department of Justice has additional information and resources for survivors of sexual violence. During the summer of 1990, when Rachanda was thirteen years old, she and her brother Byron had gone to spend a couple of weeks with their father, Steve, in Medford. Rachanda was last seen watching television at her family's residence on the Santiam Pass in Sweet Home, Oregon at 10:00 a.m. on July 10, 1990. He said he didnt know. When speaking to news station KRWQ, Steven would state that he believed Rachanda had run away from home, citing some missing clothing from her bedroom. Rachanda's year-older brother, Byron Pickle, is still tormented that he hadn't hugged her the last time he saw her, and he feels like he should have done more to protect her from their stepfather. However, the information that he was able to recall - such as her weight and bra size, as well as when she had started getting periods - didn't paint him in the most flattering light. He said he came home during a break from work and asked Rachanda if she wanted to go for a ride with him. Rachanda's stepfather, John Arthur Ackroyd, is the last person known to have seen her. Few kids lived there andthe ones who didwerent Rachandas age. Forensic experts and search-and-rescue workers spent nearly a week looking for her remains. Another man was also convicted in Turner's death. While Rachanda would ask her mother not to go to work that morning, Linda - focused on getting ready for work - didn't really take notice of the request, later recalling to the Statesman Journal: "I woke her up at about ten after five to have her french-brain my hair. Her case remained unsolved. She's never been seen again. They would end up attending a family reunion along the Oregon coast, but in the middle of July, Rachanda started to feel a bit homesick. A public records request by The Oregonian/OregonLive led a judge to order the release details of the agreement and other documents in the court file. It was definitely in the middle of nowhere, said her brother, Byron. While John had been married to and/or living with Rachanda's mother for approximately six years, he seemed to know very little personal information about the missing girl: he was unable to recall her birthday or other details like that. After Rachandas disappearance, Ackroyd was transferred out of Santiam Junction, where his connection to the case and his behavior made women uncomfortable. In 1990, Rachanda Pickle lived with her mother, brother and stepfather, John Ackroyd. On the morning of December 24th, 1978, Kaye Jean Turner left a cabin she had been renting near Camp Sherman, a tourist hotspot in central Oregon, about 40 miles northwest of Bend. John and Linda checked around with the other families in the maintenance complex for a little bit and were ultimately unable to find any sign of the missing thirteen-year-old. A sadistic killer goes around killing people, taking girls off somewhere? He was indicted on a single count of murder. From there, the search would be extended outside of the area around the maintenance complex that Rachanda lived in, to a roughly 50-square-mile area near Lost Lake, Hoodoo Butte, and Potato Hill. Story by Noelle Crombie Photography by Beth Nakamura Video by Dave KillenTHE OREGONIAN | OREGONLIVE. McAnulty, whod been promoted to detective just 10 days earlier, dutifully examined old newspaper articles and reports. "The settlement reached a point where we were able to have the certainty. One of John Ackroyds coworkers was working on Highway 20 the morning Rachanda disappeared. By then, Ackroyd was dead; he had died in prison in late 2016. Investigators had learned that while John had gone to work on the day of Rachanda's disappearance, driving out to Bend, he had only been there for about an hour before deciding to take the rest of the day off. If you recall, John Ackroyd had been one of the last people to see Kaye Turner alive and had also led police to her clothing and skull approximately eight months after her disappearance. Investigators were troubled by John Ackroyds knowledge of Rachandas bra size. Kaye Turner's killing became a faded memory. Ackroyd spun the same story from then on. he officers assigned to interrogate Ackroyd were direct. In 2012, Linn County authorities took another look at her disappearance. Her stepdad., Ackroyds grim speculation about the harm that had likely come to Rachanda echoed gory stories like the ones hed replay over and over in Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.. There, Rachanda would live alongside her mother, brother, and stepfather in a trailer at the junction, surrounded by dozens of miles of vast wilderness, becoming just one of a dozen or so families that called this mountain pass 'home.'. When she was 12, Ackroyd tattooed his initials on her arm. An adult would have a database trail associated with credit cards, utility bills, driver's licenses and property transactions. A police photo shows Rachanda's bedroom. We saw no human movement at all; no tracks, no nothing.". The morning she disappeared, Pickles mother, Linda, had gone to work at Black Butte. The sheriff's office would eventually reach out to the FBI the following January (1991), asking for the Criminal Investigative Analysis Team from Portland to help. It was even alleged that John had been molesting Rachanda, although that remains mostly-unconfirmed years later. They were restless and broke, living an itinerant existence, drinking too much and keeping dangerous company. They continued to live together, though, raising Linda's two kids, Rachanda and her older brother, Byron. Beck and his wife lived in a trailer not far from Camp Sherman, where Kaye had disappeared. After so many years, though, the edge of that threat had begun to grow dull, and these witnesses were no longer intimidated by a couple of doughy, middle-aged men. Rachanda Lea Pickle Rachanda, approximately 1990; Age when reported missing: 41 (approximately 2018); John Arthur Ackroyd, approximately 1990; Ackroyd, approximately 2013 . The first time he stared ahead as Corinna Strouse waved hello. If you have experienced sexual violence and need support, please call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE. Despite only being charged with one murder, they were being charged with five different counts; each symbolizing a different possible theory in the case. Hed returned to Sweet Home to live with his mother and split for good with Linda. Unfortunately, police had been unable to uncover any evidence of the teenager's current whereabouts, so they couldn't speak beyond these generalities without mucking up their ongoing investigation. Photos of Ackroyd are posted with this case summary. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Police and court records filled a file cabinet in the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office. Ackroyd is a suspected serial killer: he's doing life right now for a 1978 murder (he was convicted in 1994), and is a suspect in two other women's disappearances besides Rachanda's. The Oregonian/OregonLive filed a motion in February asking that all documents in the case be unsealed. On Christmas Eve morning, Ackroyd showed up at the house. Wasnt it strange that he was the last person to see Kaye and Rachanda alive? She French-braided her moms hair, then settled on the couch to watch cartoons in her pajamas. They kept their exasperation in check, rarely raising their voices as they combed fine details for any new revelation.
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