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Brooke Carol Wilberger (born February 20, 1985 in Fresno, California) is a woman who is believed to have been abducted from Corvallis, Oregon on the morning of May 24, 2004. A freshman at Brigham Young University in Utah, she was cleaning lamp posts in the parking lot of the Oak Park Apartments on the edge of the Oregon State University campus while on summer break at the time of her disappearance.
In Fall 2004, Wilberger was falsely impersonated on the MySpace website. The perpetrator of the hoax claimed that she had been found and was interested in dating again. The profile was quickly taken down, either by MySpace or by the individual involved.
Investigation
The investigation initially centered on Sung Koo Kim, who was named as "person of interest" in the disappearance. Kim was later dropped as a suspect, but given a 68-month prison sentence for crimes uncovered while being investigated for the Wilberger disappearance. On November 30, 2004 a co-ed in New Mexico was assaulted before escaping and identifying Joel Patrick Courtney as her attacker. Police eventually linked Courtney, a native of Beaverton, Oregon, to the disappearance of Wilberger and in August 2005 he was charged on 19 counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping, sexual abuse, rape and sodomy. Courtney is currently being held without bail in New Mexico on assault charges, and is set to be extradited to Oregon after those charges are resolved. Wilberger's family is still offering a $15,000 reward for recovery of her body.
Notes and references
- "Joel Patrick Courtney, serial killer & rapist". Retrieved March 8.
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- "Authorities Charge Man With Murder". Retrieved November 7.
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