Number 6 Kaylee Anne Sawyer 23-year-old Kaylee Anne Sawyer, a student
at the Central Oregon Community College, or COCC, called her boyfriend to pick her up,
just past midnight on July the 24th of 2016, after she’d attended a bachelorette party in Bend.
Cameron Riemhofer, Sawyer’s partner of two years, then argued with the young woman in the parking
lot of their apartment complex, which was close to the college campus. Riemhofer briefly went inside
the building but, upon his return, found that Sawyer was gone. It was subsequently revealed
she’d accepted a ride from campus security guard Edwin Lara, then in his early 30s. Investigators
determined that Sawyer, who was intoxicated at the time, believed she would be safe, as Lara’s
uniform closely resembled that of a Bend police officer. He was on-duty and driving a campus
security SUV, complete with plexiglass separating the front and back seats and auto-locking doors.
After trapping Sawyer inside the vehicle’s cage, Lara drove her to a secluded area, where he abused
and then bludgeoned her to death. The woman’s body was found, days after she’d been reported missing,
off Highway 126 in the Dry Creek area of Redmond. A key break in the case came from Lara’s wife,
Isabel. The woman, who’d recently become a police officer in Bend, reported her husband had told her
he’d accidentally struck Sawyer with his patrol vehicle, before driving off from their home.
A search of the residence produced the student’s purse and shoes as well as a blood-stained rock,
later established as the murder weapon. The police also found a clump of hair and blood
on Lara’s work boots. By then, however, he was already in the early stages of an interstate crime
spree lasting from July the 24th to the 26th. He first carjacked and kidnapped a young woman,
in Salem. With her in tow, he shot a man in the abdomen, at a motel in Yreka, California,
after he’d refused to surrender his car. Lara walked to a nearby gas station and carjacked
another vehicle, kidnapping its three occupants at gunpoint and telling them he had an “urge to
kill”. He then dropped them off on the side of the road and drove southbound with his Oregon
victim. Lara was ultimately arrested after a chase with Californian law enforcement. Following his
apprehension and trial, the former campus security guard was given two life terms, one for Sawyer’s
murder and the other for the crime spree. Number 5 Ally Kostial
In July of 2019, a student at the University of Mississippi was murdered by her former lover and
her body was subsequently discovered at a lakeside camp near the Oxford school.
According to her friends and family, 21-year-old Ally Kostial had been looking forward to her
senior year. The marketing major had founded a running and a golf club and
was excited about returning to them. She’d been infrequently dating classmate Brandon Theesfeld,
who was also in his early 20s. According to the evidence gathered by investigators, in mid-April
Kostial had texted Theesfeld that she might be pregnant and sent him a photo of an inconclusive
pregnancy test. The man told her that becoming a father at his age would “ruin his life”
but Kostial insisted they meet and discuss the situation. Over the next few months, however,
they only talked online. On July the 12th, Theesfeld travelled to Texas and retrieved his
father’s 40-caliber Glock 22. He posted a photo of the handgun on social media captioning it “Finally
taking my baby back to Oxford". On July the 17th, he sent Kostial a message asking to meet and,
three days later, picked the young woman up from her apartment. Theesfeld then drove her
to Sardis Lake. They got out of the car and, as Kostial’s back was turned to him,
Theesfeld shot her a total of 12 times. The man, whom it subsequently emerged had been under the
influence of alcohol and cocaine at the time of the shooting, then abandoned her to die
next to a picnic table. A post-mortem medical examination determined that Kostial
wasn’t pregnant. Roughly 48 hours later, Theesfeld was arrested at a Memphis gas station with
the murder weapon still in his possession. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was
sentenced to life in prison. Number 4 Ruth George
Honor roll student Ruth George was found dead, in late November of 2019,
in a campus parking lot belonging to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she
attended classes. George’s family had reported her missing over the weekend and UIC police
tracked her phone to the Halsted Street garage, near the university’s library.
The 19-year-old’s lifeless body was found in the backseat of a car belonging to her
family. She’d succumbed to strangulation and her death was ruled a homicide. Surveillance footage
aided he authorities in identifying a suspect as 26-year-old Donald Thurman, who lived near the
campus. He was seen following the young woman into the parking garage, at 1:35 am, and then
walking south on Halsted, roughly 35 minutes later. Thurman had been paroled the previous
year after serving a sentence for armed robbery. 24 hours after George’s death, he was apprehended
by UIC detectives at a nearby train station. The parolee fully confessed to killing the teenager.
It was revealed that he’d cat-called her and then grown frustrated by her lack of response.
Thurman followed George into the garage and continued trying to talk to her but got
no response. He then came up from behind and put the young woman in a chokehold. He dragged
George in the backseat of her car, abused her, and then strangled her to death with his bare hands.
In the aftermath, Thurman was formally charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault.
Number 3 Alexander Wyatt Campbell Two unarmed campus security guards were shot
and killed at Bridgewater College, in Virginia, in February of 2022. The learning facility went
into lockdown in the immediate aftermath and officials alerted students to the presence of
an active shooter on the Shenandoah Valley campus. The suspect was taken into custody,
nearly 40 minutes after the incident, and identified as Alexander Wyatt Campbell, aged 27, a
former track star at the liberal arts school. He’d waded through the North River and onto an island
where he was apprehended. Campbell was found to have sustained a non-life threatening gunshot
wound but officials didn’t disclose if he’d been shot by officers or if it had been self-inflicted.
The incident unfolded after John Painter and J.J. Jefferson, aged 55 and 48 respectively,
had confronted Campbell, at around 1:20 pm, after he’d reportedly been acting suspiciously, near
Memorial Hall on the campus. A brief interaction followed in the course of which the former student
opened fire, killing Painter and Jefferson. The inseparable pair were nicknamed the “dynamic duo”
and were beloved by students, faculty and staff. Painter had actually been Jefferson’s best man in
his recent wedding. Campbell, who’d dropped out of Bridgewater in 2017, had been banned from entering
the campus and had previously been charged with trespassing for not keeping his distance.
He was charged with two counts of capital murder, one count of first-degree murder and one count
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the comments section below. Number 2 Lauren McCluskey
21-year-old Lauren McCluskey was gunned down at the University of Utah campus, in October of 2018,
by a man with whom she’d recently broken up. McCluskey, a student athlete, had graduated with
honors from Pullman High School, in Washington, where she was state champion in the high jump
and a school record holder in the 100 meter hurdles. For about a month, in the fall of 2018,
she’d dated 37-year-old Melvin Rowland. The man, a registered offender, had spent nine years in Utah
State Prison, following the attempted abuse of a minor. He’d lied to McCluskey about his name,
age and criminal history. She ended their relationship, on October the 9th,
after learning the truth about the man’s past. In the days that followed, she twice complained
to the authorities that Rowland was harassing her and began working with a detective to build a case
against him. On October the 22nd, she was talking to her mother on the phone, while returning to
her dormitory after a night class. McCluskey’s mother heard her repeatedly shout out “no” before
the phone went silent. Campus security called the police and reported a possible abduction,
in the parking lot outside the dormitory Medical Plaza. Officers arrived to the scene,
searched the lot and found McCluskey’s body in a parked car. The young woman had been fatally shot
by Rowland. He was quickly identified as a suspect and later spotted fleeing towards Trinity AME
Church. He forced his way into the church through a back door with the police closing in on him.
Rowland reached the building’s second floor where he ended his life via a self-inflicted gunshot.
Number 1 One L. Goh On April the 2nd of 2012, an armed
man walked onto the campus of Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California.
43-year-old former student One L. Goh had been asked to leave the school a few months prior,
reportedly because he had disciplinary problems. He was angry at the students, who’d allegedly
mistreated him, and with the administration because it had denied a pro-rated tuition
fee reversal on his payment. Undetected by the campus’ security, Goh had carried a .45 handgun
and four fully loaded 10-round magazines into a classroom. He then stood up, while a nursing
class was in session, and ordered those present to line up against the wall. Goh opened fire on them,
killing a professor and six students, ranging in ages from 21 to 53. Three others were injured
and Goh continued firing shots, as he fled the campus. He drove off in a car belonging to one
of the victims but, a few hours later, surrendered to the authorities. Goh subsequently apologized
for the shooting and claimed that he didn’t remember much of it. A competency evaluation
would determine that he was unfit to stand trial. He’d been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia
for at least ten years and couldn’t cooperate with his public defender because he didn’t
comprehend the criminal justice system. Goh was confined to a mental institution and, in 2015,
asked for the death penalty. Both the defense and the prosecution were unsure if the request stemmed
from guilt or if Goh still suffered from delusions associated with his condition. Two years later,
he pleaded no contest to the charges related to the shooting and was sentenced to seven
consecutive life sentences plus 271 years in prison, all without any possibility of parole.
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