Troy Carney, 43, was found shot to death in his sleeping bag in the brush between the Bear Creek Greenway and Bear Creek near Central Point, Oregon. Witnesses had last seen him walking away from the Pilot Travel Center near the Central Point interchange a few days earlier; searchers discovered his body on September 4, 2008. Detectives searched the campsite and nearby thickets for evidence and recovered a distinctive Wolverine-style mask that was tested for DNA and led investigators to a person of interest, but no provable connection to Troy was ever established.

Forensic work also compared the bullets to those from a separate Jackson County killing, David Lewis, but investigators concluded the rounds did not match, and no common suspect emerged. The case remains open on the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office cold case roster with no arrests announced and few physical leads beyond the sleeping bag and the mask. Who approached Troy at that isolated campsite, and why, remains unknown — anyone with information about that stretch of the Greenway or the days before September 4, 2008, is asked to come forward.