On September 26, 2011, 56-year-old David Jones Red Pedersen of Everett, Washington, was killed; his body was later recovered in his Jeep in Linn County, Oregon with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Two days later, his wife Leslie DeeDee Pedersen, 69, was found stabbed to death in the couple’s Everett home on September 28, 2011, which triggered a multi-state manhunt.

Investigators identified Pedersen’s son, David Joseph Joey Pedersen, and his girlfriend Holly Ann Grigsby as primary suspects. The pair fled Washington and carried out additional murders in Oregon and California, including 19-year-old Cody Myers in Oregon and 53-year-old Reginald Alan Clark in Eureka, California. Their attack motive combined personal vendettas and extremist white supremacist beliefs; Joey Pedersen alleged childhood sexual abuse by his father, a claim prosecutors later described as significant and credible.

Pedersen and Grigsby were arrested October 5, 2011, near Yuba City with several guns and confessed to the killings. Both later pleaded guilty and received life sentences; Joey Pedersen told authorities he regretted being caught before he could carry out further planned violence. If anyone knew the victims or saw suspicious activity in Everett, Linn County, Oregon, or Eureka in late September 2011, please share what was seen.