OR FOUR PEOPLE: Missing from McKenzie River Valley, Lane County, OR - 2020-2023 *Two Found Deceased*

Mystery deepens as four people remain missing in Blue River/Vida area

Mekenna Reiley is one of four people who have recently gone missing in the Blue River/Vida area. Partial remains of Shane Sprenger were found last month. Spreng

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Mystery deepens as four people remain missing in Blue River/Vida area
Mekenna Reiley is one of four people who have recently gone missing in the Blue River/Vida area. Partial remains of Shane Sprenger were found last month. Sprenger had been missing since November 2021. His remains were found off Quartz Creek Road.
That's where Chase Roberson's car was found in April 2020. Robertson is still missing.

There's also Eric Ray Brazil. He was last seen in Springfield, but his car was found abandoned in Vida with his cell phone nearby. Brazil has not been found.

Last week our newsroom asked LCSO if these four people could be connected.

"The best I could do to put any minds at ease on that is to say we have not discovered any evidence that leads us to believe that they are linked or related or that there is a serial killer," LCSO Public Information Officer Sgt. Tom Speldrich explained. "Certainly if we're able to uncover any information that would lead us to believe that, we would be letting the public know for safety reasons, but we have nothing that tells us that that's the case right here. It's a wooded, wilderness, rural area. It's tough terrain. It can be hard to find people if they go missing in those areas so while I can't say definitively that there's not a link, we have nothing that makes us think that there is at this point."






To be clear, this is an approximately 30-mile stretch of rural Oregon with 4 missing persons in the last 3 years. I have no idea if the cases are related. LE is saying they are not, but we have heard that before, very recently. Regardless, posting here for awareness and discussion. Even if they're not at all related, a little more awareness doesn't hurt.

 

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Five years on, Shane Sprenger case persists after 2023 remains and bone fragment ID

A Virginia lab confirmed a bone fragment found in the McKenzie River belonged to Shane Sprenger, whose disappearance remains under investigation.

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Five years on, Shane Sprenger case persists after 2023 remains and bone fragment ID​

Five years after Shane Sprenger disappeared from Blue River under suspicious circumstances, investigators are still looking into his case.

In June 2023, people found partial human remains in the McKenzie River drainage area. Authorities later confirmed the remains belonged to Sprenger. Follow-up searches did not find additional evidence.

Another bone fragment was found in the McKenzie River in September 2023 and sent to the Oregon State Police crime lab. After significant delays, Sprenger’s family raised money with help from Dylan’s Legacy, a nonprofit that assists families of missing people, to have the fragment tested for DNA at Bode Technology in Virginia.

The lab confirmed the fragment belonged to Sprenger, and his family was notified, according to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office.

Is that an organization remembering Dylan Redwine?