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Lawyers in Wilberger case build strategy.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lawyers in Wilberger case build strategy.(Courts)(Prosecutors hope to present evidence of Joel Patrick Courtney's "previous acts")

Article Excerpt
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard

CORVALLIS - Court documents filed in advance of a May hearing in Joel Patrick Courtney's death penalty murder case allege that the man accused of killing Veneta resident Brooke Wilberger told his sister days after Wilberger's 2004 disappearance about a "blonde girl who was kidnapped" and dies a violent death.

Wilberger was a blonde, 19-year-old Brigham Young University student when she vanished five years ago from a summer job cleaning lamp posts at an apartment complex near Oregon State University. Her body has not been found, although investigators reported finding DNA evidence that the Brigham Young University student had been in a green van Courtney was driving in May 2004.

Among the details in prosecution filings is a claim that an agitated Courtney appeared at his sister's Portland home two weeks after Wilberger vanished. According to prosecutors, the sister told investigators that Courtney acted "like he was on something" and told...

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