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A view of the Lake Creek Lodge & cabins in Camp Sherman, Oregon.  It was here in 1978 that 35 year-old Kaye Turner was staying with her husband for the Christmas holiday as they were both residents of Eugene, Oregon.  On Christmas Eve, Turner went on a run by herself before breakfast at 8:15 a.m. She embarked on a run expected to take one hour along a two-lane camp road. Thomas Hanna, an ODOT (Oregon department of transportation) highway worker who lived at Camp Sherman, spotted her running south and he also saw another highway worker, John Ackroyd. Her husband Noel Turner drove through Camp Sherman looking for his wife when she had not returned by 10 a.m. Fearing his wife had been kidnapped, he phoned the police and a search was organized. The police originally suspected Noel in his wife's disappearance due to her extramarital affairs with two men. They interviewed Ackroyd who got off of work at 6:30 a.m. He was based in Santiam Junction, Oregon and drove to Camp Sherman, about 25 miles from work. He said that he planned on hunting coyotes. Ackroyd mentioned that he had seen a runner in a clearing, but the police did not consider him a suspect.

During the searches for Turner, two sets of footprints were found in the frozen snow. One matched Turner's Nike shoes. The other set was consistent with footprints of a large man. The scene indicated that there had been a scuffle and the smaller person being dragged away.

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. She had been kidnapped, raped, and killed. 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. He also said that he was the last person to see her. 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. Ackroyd said that he saw her remains two months after her disappearance, but did not report the sighting. It was not until Ackroyd's step-daughter Rachanda Pickle went missing from the ODOT Santiam Pass maintenance station in 1990 that the police began to earnestly investigate Ackroyd and collect new information.

Ackroyd and Beck were indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury and arrested in 1992. Ackroyd was convicted in October 1993 of aggravated murder in the rape, murder and shooting of Turner for which he received a life sentence. Beck, who bragged to his family about killing Turner, was also found guilty in November 1993 of the aggravated murder of Kaye Turner by a Jefferson County Circuit jury at a separate trial. Testimony from Beck's ex-wife, Pam Ramirez and new forensic testing are credited with helping prosecute the case. Jefferson County District Attorney Bill Hanlon said that Ackroyd had tried to get the reward for finding Turner. If he had been silent, "this case would have gone nowhere".  Ackroyd died in prison in 2016.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_of_Highway_20