Opinion ID: 2590211
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Second warrant

Text: On the evening of May 17, 1983, Sidebotham presented to Judge Beacom a telephonic affidavit for a further search warrant, incorporating the affidavits for the search of defendant's car and the prior search of his house. Sidebotham stated that, after completing his first search of the house, he learned there was relevant evidence at that location that he had not recovered. Specifically, four officers of various law enforcement agencies in the State of Oregon had described to Sidebotham unsolved murder cases in their respective jurisdictions, mentioning certain evidence Sidebotham had seen at defendant's house. Officer James Reed of the Oregon State Police told Sidebotham about Michael O'Fallon, a young man whose body had been found on an on-ramp to Interstate 5, a victim of ligature strangulation who had alcohol and diazepam in his system at the time of death. Missing from O'Fallon's possession was a pocket Kodak Instamatic camera with the initials MJO scratched onto the camera. Under the authority of the first warrant, Sidebotham had seized such a camera from defendant's house during the prior search. Reed also described to Sidebotham a certain backpack and other property O'Fallon had had with him before he died, as well as the clothing he was wearing. In conducting the first search of defendant's house, Sidebotham had seen boots, a T-shirt, corduroy pants and a leather belt matching the description of the clothing O'Fallon had been wearing when last seen. O'Fallon's body had been found on July 17, 1980, a date when defendant had been in Oregon on a business trip. Detective William Kennedy of the Lane County Sheriffs Office, near Eugene, Oregon, had told Sidebotham that the dead body of Michael Duane Cluck had been found off Interstate 5 on April 10, 1981. Cluck had been bludgeoned to death, and alcohol and Valium were found in his system. Certain property and clothing Cluck had in his possession, including a pair of black men's roller skates with white wheels, were missing. Sidebotham had seen such a pair of skates in the master bedroom of defendant's house, as well as a backpack matching the description of the one owned by Cluck. Defendant had been working in the Portland area from March 1, 1981, through May 9, 1981. Sergeant Will Heningston of the Marion County Sheriffs Office in Salem, Oregon, had told Sidebotham that the nude body of Anthony Silveira had been found near a rural road close to Interstate 5 on December 18, 1982. The cause of death was ligature strangulation and alcohol and diazepam were in Silveira's system at the time of death. Silveira had last been seen alive on December 3, 1982, and it appeared he had been dead approximately two weeks. Sidebotham had received a list of the clothing Silveira was wearing when last seen; while executing the first warrant to search defendant's house, Sidebotham had seen tennis shoes matching those worn by Silveira. Defendant had stayed at the Holiday Inn in Wilsonville, Oregon, from December 1 through December 3, 1982. Detective Linda Estes of the Clackamas County Sheriffs Office in Oregon City, Oregon, had told Sidebotham that, on November 24, 1982, the dead body of Brian Whitcher had been found on a rural road in the Wilsonville area, clad only in jeans and a sweater. The cause of death could not be determined, but alcohol and diazepam had been found in Whitcher's system. On November 23, 1982, defendant had stayed at the Holiday Inn in Wilsonville, Oregon, about two miles from the location where Whitcher's body was found. Detective Estes had examined photographs taken during the search of defendant's house on May 14 and had advised Sidebotham that they appeared to depict Whitcher's jacket hanging in defendant's garage. One of the photographs seized from underneath the floor mat of defendant's car showed murder victim Robert Wyatt Loggins, Jr., lying on a couch that was seized from defendant's house on May 14. The photographs, in which Loggins appeared to be deceased, showed him both clothed and unclothed. An application of the luminol chemical process to the couch had indicated the presence of blood. When Loggins's body was found, certain items of property and clothing with which he had last been seen were missing. Based on the foregoing factual recitation, Judge Beacom issued a second warrant authorizing a search for the property of Robert Wyatt Loggins, Jr., and of the Oregon victims named in the affidavit.