Kaye Turner was 35 and living in Camp Sherman, Oregon, when she went for a routine Christmas Eve morning jog on December 24, 1978, and never returned. Her husband’s alarmed search led to a police investigation that initially stalled and left the community with long unanswered questions; suspicion at one point fell on her husband.

In August 1979 highway mechanic John Arthur Ackroyd said he had found Turner’s remains in the woods near where she was last seen. His account shifted over time; he later admitted seeing and speaking with her the day she vanished and implicated a friend, hunter Roger Dale Beck, saying they were together that morning. The case did not yield a prosecutable case until later developments.

After the 1990 disappearance of Ackroyd’s stepdaughter and new forensic testing plus testimony from Beck’s ex-wife, both Ackroyd and Beck were arrested and indicted in 1992. Trials in 1993 resulted in convictions for the abduction, rape, and murder of Turner and life sentences. Ackroyd was linked to other violent crimes along Highway 20 and died in prison in 2016.

Did anyone in Camp Sherman know of unusual activity on that two-lane road the morning Turner disappeared?