Kristine Marie Fairbanks, 51, was killed on September 20, 2008 while on duty in Olympic National Forest, Washington. A U.S. Forest Service Officer with 22 years’ service and a K-9 handler, Fairbanks radioed dispatch at 2:40 p.m. to report stopping a suspicious van without license plates near Dungeness Forks campground. When dispatchers could not re-establish contact, a sheriff’s deputy went to the location and found Fairbanks deceased from a single gunshot wound. Her K-9 partner Radar was unharmed in her patrol vehicle.

The man Fairbanks had stopped, Shawn M. Roe, 36, fled the scene. Roe, a convicted felon wanted for a probation violation, abandoned the van and later shot and killed 59-year-old Richard Ziegler at his home, then stole Ziegler’s pickup. Deputies later located the stolen truck at a convenience store east of Sequim; when two Clallam County deputies confronted Roe he fired at them and was fatally shot by returning gunfire. The search for a suspect ended with Roe’s death; the investigation into the day’s events continued.

Did anyone in the area at Dungeness Forks campground that afternoon see the van or notice activity around the patrol vehicle?