Michael Clyde MacDonald, 61, of Cave Junction, Oregon, was found shot to death on the afternoon of August 2, 2014. Oregon State Police responded to the 6000 block of Rockydale Road after 9-1-1 calls at about 3:35 p.m.; troopers discovered MacDonald on the property with at least one gunshot wound and an autopsy was scheduled. A major-crimes team from OSP, the Josephine County District Attorney’s Office, and the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety handled the investigation, led by OSP Detective Annie Harris. Authorities announced no arrests immediately, but within days detectives named Stranger Raymond Davis, then 28 and also of Cave Junction, a person of interest.

Davis was located in Paradise, California, on an unrelated warrant on August 6, 2014, and Josephine County obtained a murder warrant to hold him pending extradition to Oregon. Davis later mounted an insanity defense; Judge Lindi Baker rejected that defense after a non-jury trial and found Davis guilty of murder, after which he received a life sentence with possibility of parole after 25 years. Months before MacDonald’s death, news accounts noted he had been publicly named a person of interest in an unrelated killing of a Cave Junction man, though authorities said he was not a suspect.

Did anyone in the Rockydale Road area see or hear anything unusual on August 2, 2014?