Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

Devoted mother of 4, Heather Leann Cameron (Haller), went missing after repeated distress calls to 911 about 20min outside of Redding, CA in August of 2012 while in the company of her ex boyfriend, Daniel Lusby. Heather is still missing today, nearly 10 years later. What happened to Heather Leann Cameron?

Sources

• https://charleyproject.org/case/heather-leann-cameron
• https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2017/10/30/still-seeking-answers-tribal-member-heather-cameron-has-been-missing-for-five-years/
• https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForHeatherCameronHaller/
• https://twitter.com/heathercameronh
• https://coreysobell.medium.com/48-hours-what-happened-to-heather-cameron-and-cort-jones-838b6e1e8c40
• https://www.truecasefiles.com/2019/08/the-disappearance-of-heather-cameron.html
• https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-heather-cameron-28-redding-18-aug-2012.235822/
• https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/09/oregon-missing-murdered-indigenous-people/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlQaGchTW8c&t=7s - Crimery

In 1988, Mulugeta Seraw lost his life for simply being who he was: a Black man from Ethiopia. His murder by racist skinheads horrified Portland and exposed the deep roots of white supremacy in the community. This is Mulugeta's story.

Sources

• Hate on Trial by Morris Dees
• A Hundred Little Hitlers by Elinor Langer
• http://media.oregonlive.com/history/other/2014/12/04/grandjurydecision1.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_Seraw
• https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/10/25/remember-mulugeta-30-years-after-splc-lawsuit-life-and-legacy-man-killed-hate-group
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-hate-crime-mulugeta-seraw/
• https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mulugeta-seraw-1960-1988/
• https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2014/11/1998_story_legacy_of_a_hate_cr.html
• https://muse.jhu.edu/article/830039/summary
• https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/seraw-mulugeta/#.YfHKyOrML3Q
• https://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-27436-ken-death-mieske-dies.html
• https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2020/01/white-supremacists-on-trial-for-inciting-murder-required-extraordinary-security-in-portland-case-reverberates-30-years-later.html
• https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/07/27/ken-mieske-skinhead-murderer-ethiopian-student-1988-dies
• https://billmoyers.com/content/hate-trial-bill-moyers/
• https://vimeo.com/129797289
• https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2008/11/lessons_from_mulugeta_seraws_b.html
• https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/05/Apologetic-skinhead-gets-life-term/6661613022400/
• https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/01/17/kyle-brewster-convicted-in-1988-killing-of-mulugeta-seraw-fought-at-jan-6-pro-trump-rally-in-salem/#:~:text=Released%20from%20prison%20in%202002,the%20white%20supremacist%20group%20Volksfront.
• https://apnews.com/article/02b78d7936b2c39417c6ff961b166a07
• https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/20/us/skinhead-is-sentenced-in-slaying-of-black.html
• https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/it-happened-in-1988/Content?oid=850524
• https://timeline.com/seraw-ethiopian-murder-metzger-b50884b83a92
• https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1989-09-02-8909024272-story.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Metzger

CW: This episode contains graphic descriptions of physical abuse against children and adults, please use caution when listening.

Our longest episode yet tells the horrific, decades-long story of Michelle Knotek and her systematic pattern of abuse and manipulation of the people she was supposed to love and care for the most. Knotek is slated for release from prison in June of 2022, and this episode will have you asking - why should she ever be released at all?

Sources

• If You Tell by Gregg Olsen - 2019
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/shelly-knotek
• https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/876416/shelly-knotek-abuse-daughters-serial-killer/
• https://nypost.com/2019/11/30/kids-of-murderer-michelle-shelly-knotek-warn-their-mom-could-kill-again/
• https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Dog-adds-twist-to-Raymond-case-1121726.php
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030817&slug=raymond17m
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Woman-gets-22-years-in-deaths-of-boarders-1152156.php
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Plea-deal-reduces-charge-in-Raymond-murder-case-1136130.php
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030813&slug=raymond13m
• https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Suspect-s-relatives-contacted-police-in-2001-1121929.php#page-1
• Sins & Secrets - Season 4, Episode 7 - The Murder Inn (Free on Discovery+)
• Wicked Attraction - Home Sweet Home (Free on Discovery+)

Toddler Teekah Lewis vanished without a trace from a Tacoma, WA bowling alley the night of January 23, 1999. She is still missing, just shy of 23 years later. Where is Teekah Lewis?

Find Teekah Lewis Facebook Page

Missing Teekah Lewis Instagram

Sources

• https://mynorthwest.com/12565/cold-case-detectives-refuse-to-give-up-solving-tacoma-child-disappearances/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuuZ6lCs9Mk
• https://medium.com/@jennbaxter_69070/the-unsolved-abduction-of-teekah-lewis-144bc0618502
• https://ncmissingpersons.org/teekah-lewis/
• https://www.crimeonline.com/2021/07/30/crime-stories-tacoma-tot-teekah-lewis-seemingly-disappears-into-thin-air-at-bowling-alley/
• https://www.instagram.com/missingteekahlewis/?hl=en
• https://www.facebook.com/Help-find-Missing-Teekah-Lewis-100247185413648/?ref=page_internal
• https://www.missingkids.org/poster/ncmc/859446/1
• https://www.pollyklaas.org/missing-children/teekah-lewis/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/mx0ifm/twoyearold_teekah_lewis_was_a_few_feet_from_her/
• https://imgur.com/gallery/mZ3Sngv
• https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/fm3yhc/timeline_and_lengthy_write_up_of_the_teekah_lewis/
• https://patch.com/washington/across-wa/tacoma-police-share-suspect-description-teekah-lewis-case
• https://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/alerts-missing-persons/missing-children/attachment/lewis_teekah-2/
• https://komonews.com/news/local/i-celebrate-it-for-her-teekah-lewis-mom-honors-birthday-20-years-after-disappearance
• https://www.dailyadvent.com/news/ea9ee7f06fc1c01573717b44b7ae6657-Crime-Stories-Tacoma-Tot-Teekah-Lewis-Seemingly-Disappears-Into-Thin-Air-at-Bowling-Alley
• https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/wa-teekah-lewis-2-tacoma-23-jan-1999.38987/page-7
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19990127&slug=2940874
• https://komonews.com/news/local/new-tip-in-teekah-lewis-case-leads-police-to-tacoma-park
• https://people.com/crime/toddler-kidnapped-bowling-alley-when-it-was-mothers-turn-to-bowl/
• https://unresolved.me/teekah-lewis
• https://www.kiro7.com/news/possible-break-case-teekah-lewis-disappearance/246683426/
• https://www.q13fox.com/news/father-of-teekah-lewis-speaks-out-for-first-time-since-daughters-disappearance-18-years-ago
• https://www.kiro7.com/news/crime-law/teekah-lewis-sister-victim-attempted-luring/246889846/
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20060621&slug=weblewis21
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B10lodRlGx0
• https://www.angelfire.com/jazz/jazzyrose/Teekah.html
• https://charleyproject.org/case/teekah-latres-lewis

A new episode for the new year! Sara brings us an astounding story of survival from Portland, Oregon. We bow down to the badassery of Susan Kuhnhausen (now Susan Walters).

Sources

• https://blurredbylines.com/articles/susan-kuhnhausen-walters-survivor-hitman-portland/
• https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/an-assassin-tried-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-it-went-poorly-for-him-f3b02fef5221 - Sara's Winner of the best article title "An Assassin Tried to Kill Susan Kuhnhausen. It Went Poorly - For Him"
• https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/
• https://www.buggedspace.com/susan-kuhnhausen-killed-the-hitman-her-ex-husband-sent-to-kill-her/
• https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/her-killer-came-in-the-night-3506c09051c3
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou1mFn-_K_w
• https://katu.com/news/local/woman-susan-walters-who-killed-hit-man-hired-by-husband-helping-victims-track-their-offenders
• I Survived - TV show (can find it on Youtube) - Season 5, Episode 2

1/16/2022 Update: Audio fixed and re-uploaded for better listening experience.

Christmas Eve 2007 changed Carnation, WA and the Anderson family forever when Michele Anderson and boyfriend Joe McEnroe took the lives of nearly her entire family on the eve of her father's favorite holiday.

Sources

• Banquet of Consequences: The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson by Paul Sanders
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Carnation_murders
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Man-admits-to-Carnation-killings-in-bid-to-dodge-5129224.php
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Carnation-suspects-tell-officers-of-victims-1260062.php
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDiTNw2TwY
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150119004927/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/12/29/washington-family-murder-suspect-apologized-then-shot-kids-to-death/
• https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/gov-jay-inslee-announces-capital-punishment-moratorium
• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/timeline-of-carnation-killings-anderson-murder-trial/
• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/carnation-slayings-defendant-says-she-wants-to-be-executed/
• https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/anderson-michele.htm
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/At-long-last-Carnation-woman-who-wiped-out-6866197.php
• https://www.q13fox.com/news/killer-details-the-carnation-slayings-tells-of-heartbreaking-scene-by-3-year-old-victim
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Pb0JOk7-A
• Law&Crime Network (YouTube) - Opening statement of Michele Anderson trial
• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/deputies-action-after-911-call-from-carnation-home-to-be-investigated/
• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/mcenroe-escapes-death-sentence-for-6-carnation-murders/
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3023889/Murderer-says-thought-kill-six-members-girlfriend-s-family-Christmas-Eve-dinner-takes-stand-bid-avoid-death-penalty.html
• https://torontosun.com/news/world/crime-hunter-yuletide-massacre
• https://mynorthwest.com/15443/joseph-mcenroe-describes-grisly-murder-of-six-in-taped-confession/
• https://fox8.com/news/carnation-killer-has-melt-down-on-stand-as-he-describes-murdering-6-people/
• https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/chilling-911-recording-played-in-carnation-murder-trial/65559320
• https://www.khq.com/news/joseph-mcenroe-grants-jailhouse-interview-to-newspaper/article_9b0b8be3-4ab5-5af1-9c6d-5ec4e9bc22d1.html
• https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/scott-peterson---4-more-christmas-eve-murders
• https://www.kiro7.com/news/911-caller-makes-me-wonder-if-her-daughter-did-it/42155767/
• https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/michele-anderson-convicted-of-killing-6-family-members-to-be-sentenced/233177814/
• https://www.q13fox.com/news/you-are-a-bully-and-coward-michele-anderson-told-before-given-6-life-sentences-for-killing-family
• https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/family-of-carnation-murder-victims-devastated-over-death-penalty-ruling/307930737
• Homicide for the Holidays, S1 Ep2: Christmas Carnage in Carnation

Like nearly every 14 year old girl, Reena Virk just wanted to fit in. Unfortunately the people she tried so hard to mesh with ultimately caused her death. Sara takes us to Saanich, British Columbia to tell the tragic story of the murder of Reena Virk.

Sources

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/murder-of-reena-virk
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvpqa7/the-unforgettable-story-of-a-teen-murdered-by-her-peers
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44562746
• https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/kelly-ellard-resumes-day-parole-after-suspension-loses-expanded-privileges-1.5654026
• Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
• Reena: A Father's Story by Manjit Virk
• https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/reena-virk-critical-perspectives-on-a-canadian-murder
• https://apnews.com/article/e3cacadb3ad94edeb8293ec11821e6ce
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100615013806/http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Windsor+play+strikes+chord+with+parents+slain+teen/3144779/story.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100424225935/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Vancouver+company+joins+Reese+Witherspoon+film+Virk+murder/2930954/story.html

Our first cryptid case explores the watery depths of Okanagan Lake in Vancouver BC! Has a Nessie-like creature lived in Okanagan Lake for hundreds of years?

Sources

• https://www.gaia.com/article/3-new-sightings-confirm-ogopogo-lake-monster-in-british-columbia?utm_source=google+paid&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=1-INTL-PERFORMANCE-MAX&utm_content=performancemax&gclid=CjwKCAiA4veMBhAMEiwAU4XRr5vtUIdv5wOCt8gkYp2SVQeAU8VCG9rs6J9sw91D-wpI2jhRgAsE-hoCuKAQAvD_BwE
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okanagan_language
• https://globalnews.ca/news/5381999/pretty-creepy-okanagan-man-believes-hes-captured-definitive-ogopogo-sighting-on-video/
• http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/okanagan/history/p128.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050742/http://www.csicop.org/si/show/ogopogo_the_chameleon
• https://www.foxnews.com/science/canadas-loch-ness-monster-the-legendary-ogopogo-lake-monster-caught-on-video
• https://indiginews.com/okanagan/dont-call-him-ogopogo-call-him-by-his-name-nxaxaitk%CA%B7-says-syilx-elder
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogopogo
• https://www.fraserriverkeeper.ca/what_lurks_beneath_the_legend_of_ogopogo
• https://www.livescience.com/42399-ogopogo.html
• http://www.okanagan.com/the-ogopogo.html
• https://www.tourismkelowna.com/blog/post/the-legend-the-spirit-the-creature-the-history-of-ogopogo/
• https://www.tourismkelowna.com/plan/about-kelowna/history/ogopogo/
• https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200309-ogopogo-the-monster-lurking-in-okanagan-lake
• https://www.attercap.net/post/monsters-of-pnw/
• Monsters and Mysteries in America, S1 Ep2: Pacific Northwest
• America's Monsters, S1 Ep3: Lake Monsters: Ogopogo and Pepie
• In Search of Ogopogo: Sacred Creature of the Okanagan Waters by Arlene Gaal

Time travel with Sara back to the US Oregon territory in 1844 where a dispute about a horse went really wrong and inspired some super shitty laws about who could and could not live in the Oregon territory.

Sources:

• https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cockstock-incident/#.YX3y1dnMJ0s
• https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/skin-summer-2013/dangerous-subjects/
• https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/white-elijah/#.YYWr2tnMJbU
• https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/saules-james-d/#.YYWr7dnMJbU
• https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/exclusion_laws/#.YYWr_dnMJbU
• Taylor, Quintard. "Slaves and Free Men: Blacks in the Oregon Country, 1840-1860." Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 2, Oregon Historical Society, 1982, pp. 153–70, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20613841.
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/07/when-portland-banned-blacks-oregons-shameful-history-as-an-all-white-state/
• Coleman, Kenneth Robert, ""Dangerous Subjects": James D. Saules and the Enforcement of the Color Line in Oregon" (2014). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1845. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.1844

Known as "Oregon's most prolific serial killer," the Molalla Forest Killer case is a rough one. These are the stories of the victims of Dayton Leroy Rogers, a monster who should have been locked up permanently years before he would be linked to the murders of 8 women in the summer of 1987.

Sources

• Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer by Gary C. King
• https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rogers-dayton-leroy.htm
• https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2015/11/woman_says_she_wants_to_meet_s.html
• https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2018/01/the_most_cold-blooded_cowardly.html
• https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2015/10/women_who_escaped_serial_kille.html
• https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/tag/molalla-forest-killer/
• https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/ora41308
• https://amsrem-blog.tumblr.com/post/50622821774/lsd137-the-youngest-of-three-children
• https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2013/04/daughter_comes_forward_to_clai.html
• https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2013/03/victim_of_oregon_serial_killer.html
• https://mycrimelibrary.com/dayton-rogers-oregon-death-row/
• https://katu.com/news/local/two-sides-see-things-differently-over-governor-calling-off-death-penalty-special-session
• https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19880214&id=f49TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o4YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6778,1551979
• https://web.courts.oregon.gov/records/sccalendar.nsf/b29dd44d01dffea088256c91005b3a5b/7ca02edba1ae65c9882585a70071ab4e?OpenDocument
• https://law.justia.com/cases/oregon/supreme-court/1992/313-or-356.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJggjIhLA_U
• https://katu.com/news/local/after-30-some-years-remains-tied-to-serial-killer-dayton-leroy-rogers
• http://www.crimemagazine.com/molalla-forest-killer
• https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/just-science-identification-just-molalla-forest-serial-killer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Leroy_Rogers
• Grave Secrets, Season 2, Episode 4 "Women in the Woods" (available on Discovery+ )
• World's Most Evil Killers, Season 5, Episode 7 "Dayton Leroy Rogers: The Molalla Forest Killer" (available for free on Peacock TV)