Brooke Wilberger's remains found; killer pleads guilty
By Kimberly A.C. Wilson, The Oregonian
September 21, 2009, 12:40PM
volunteers search for missing 19-year-old Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger near Marys River in Corvallis, Ore.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.

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.

One clue: A green van like the one he drove for a building maintenance company was spotted near the Corvallis apartment building and on the nearby Oregon State University campus around the time Wilberger disappeared.


they have sent him back to mexcio to serve a 18yr sentence there and when he gets done with that they will send him back here to serve his life sentence... by the time he gets back here he could be dead