College Rent-A-Cop Does the Unthinkable to 23-Year-Old After Bachelorette Party

Bend Oregon, a quiet town with a low crime rate, campus security guards are a calming presence for the rural town's 10,000 students, but what happens when a friendly face turns out to be hiding a deadly obsession, a missing student, a desperate man and a crime in several states? spree this is the story of The disappearance of Kaylee Sawyer now she kept screaming and St here forever Kaylee Sawyer had lived in the quaint town of Bend Oregon all her life she was from a large, blended family when Kaylee was young her pa

rent

s separated and They both remarried and, as a result, she was the eldest of five children in The Shining Light of family reunions.

She was also an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sue Tribe in South Dakota, the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Joseph in 2016 at the age of 23 Kaylee was working as a dental assistant at Opry Dental, she had also re-enrolled at Central Oregon Community College and lived near the campus with her boyfriend of 2

year

s, Cameron Ry Hofer, her pa

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s could see that she would have a future with him and that future looked bright. On July 23, 2016, Kaylee dressed in a black dress and brown boots to attend a

bachelorette

party

. single in downtown Bend, her friends and boyfriend would later remember the green purse she was carrying that night when Kaylee went out that hot summer night.

I could have predicted she wouldn't be coming home several bars and a few drinks later, Kayle's friend saw her dancing with a man who wasn't her boyfriend at 4 minutes at midnight, she contacted Cameron asking him to pick her up when he arrived, They fought in the car. Cameron was concerned about Kay's reckless behavior the day before texting her father that she had been busy trying to figure things out and was in a hole, the fight escalated and when the couple arrived at their apartment at 12:00: 14 a.m. m. Cameron suggested that Kaylee take some time to cool off.

He went up to wait at her apartment while Kaylee took a walk, something he had done countless times before, when things had gotten heated, she was a safe neighborhood, and he had no reason to think she would do it. I came back a few minutes later calmer and ready to talk things through, but at 12:24 a.m. m. Kaylee hadn't come back worried. Cameron went downstairs to look for her, she wasn't there and at 12:30 he texted her asking where are you please come from her. home and talk to me, they argued over text for a while before he said please don't do this to me.

I apologize for getting upset when I picked you up. I drove up and down College Way very slow, I didn't see you and I didn't know where else to go, I just turned back, he was desperately looking for her now, but she didn't want to talk to him. Her last message to him was at 1:00 a.m. m. Lee, are you kidding me? because that's stupid, goodbye, phone off, she replied. Kaye, please, Ceron did not find Kaylee that night despite walking the paths near the couple's apartment, he finally had to assume that she was taking the night to freshen up and reluctantly headed home, he hoped to hear from her. her in the morning, but the reconciliation she desperately awaited. was destined to never happen on the morning of July 24th Cameron woke up to Kayle's side of the bed still worryingly empty at 9:00am.

He tried to call her but she didn't answer. He went to his friend's house hoping Kaylee had gone there to spend the night. Kayle's car was parked in a Subaru where she had left it the day before but Kaylee wasn't there. That's when Cameron decided to call. to Kayle's Parents It was Sunday and Kayle's father, Jimie, was at church when the call came. but then he went on to tell his wife that the camera can't find Kaye, that there were no sightings of Kaye all morning, her phone kept ringing on voicemail and even her mother, Julie, couldn't reach her, something very unusual in the close-knit family of the Early afternoon, Cameron made the decision to call 911, how can I help you?

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right number to call. Last night I came home from the bars with my girlfriend and she got mad at me and ran away. I turned off MH and chased her and couldn't find her and still haven't heard from her. Her phone is off. I called her entire family and they didn't hear from her, so I'm wondering what you would recommend I do. I can make a call and we can have police officers, look for, okay, where did she last see her? On College Way, at the Alpine Meadows apartment complex, it's like at the top of College Way, it was like 1:00 in the morning, okay. start walking or something from the address like she was mad yeah she yeah she was mad at me so I went in and told her to come see me and then when she said calm down and then I came back out in 10 minutes and she was gone and I called her a couple of times and she said she was walking down the street and then I guess she said her phone is about to die and then I was able to reach her after that, I haven't heard anything from her since then.

Okay, any idea where I would go or I don't know, although I thought I would go to where her car was, with her best friends or her mom, and I went to talk to her dad and I just didn't listen. . Anything from anyone who knows us, okay? Would you like to have a job that needs to be out and that you missed or something, not today, tomorrow you have a job in April? That's fine, and any diagnosed physical or mental health problems, no, nothing like that. However, I know that Julie told the police that Kaylee had a history of epilepsy, which suggested she was an at-risk person, which meant that the police could treat her case urgently rather than waiting a day or two for her.

Kaye will return on her own. Can I help you? Yes. I need an officer to call me. My daughter is missing and she is over 23

year

s old, but she has epilepsy and some medical problems. In fact, Kaylee had only had one seizure many years earlier and the condition was well managed, but Julie didn't feel anything. She blames her for exaggerating, she knew deep down that something sinister had happened to her daughter. The first 48 hours are the most critical to locating a missing person. Julie's motherly instinct told her something was very wrong as she continued her search for Kayle Sawyer.

Julie would unfortunately be checked. Well, the police talked to friends of Kayle's family and Cameron as her boyfriend and someone who had been red-faced with Kaylee the night she disappeared. The camera was in the spotlight, but officers soon ruled it out. Lieutenant Devin Lewis believed that Cam really had no idea where she was. They then spoke to the stranger Kaye had danced with at the bar. If she had sneaked out to meet him after her fight with Cameron, it was a tempting theory. The man admitted to flirting with Kaylee, but insisted that he had not seen her again after she left. the bar with no clues and no firm suspects the police were stumped maybe kayle's disappearance really was her own choice if she took a few days to figure things out while telling her father the test they decided on would be to wait and see if she would She reported to work the next day dedicated to her job as a dental assistant, if Kaylee had been absent today, the police and her loved ones could be sure she was in trouble, as the morning of Monday, July 25, so did the horrible dawn.

Realizing that Kaylee was still missing that same morning, another Oregon woman woke up to a horrifying revelation. Isabel H. Lara was a rookie police officer who spent a normal weekend with her husband. Edwin Lara Lara was a security guard at Central Oregon Community College and had arrived home. In the early hours of Sunday morning, after working his night shift as a campus security officer, they went to church together, where he seemed calm and showed her less affection than usual. She asked him what was happening, but he didn't explain. She assumed it was just. the normal stress of work and they didn't question him further, they stopped by Pizza Hut and watched Netflix at home, then he suggested they go out to see a movie at Ben's.

The only strange detail she noticed, besides him withdrawing, was that he had the car windows ajar the whole time until you went to watch the movie, anything catches your attention, you know what I just thought? at the moment? He had the windows ajar and he never did, well, and I asked him. about that she said oh it's hot the next day however things changed she didn't suspect anything wrong until he interrupted her morning routine he painted a vivid picture of guilt and panic describing to his wife a horrible accident he claimed he accidentally hit a woman with his campus. security car had panicked and hid her body Isabelle was confused why someone would hide evidence of a tragic accident after confessing to his wife Edwin grabbed his service weapon and left, leaving her worried that he might do something to hurt himself . at 11:52 a.m.

On Monday, July 25, she took her fears to the police. Following Edwin's claims, the police searched the couple's property and discovered a trash bag of female belongings in Laura's shed, just as he had told Isabelle. , which included a soaked green bag. In blood containing a D ID card belonging to none other than missing woman Kaylee Sawyer, they also found bloody strands of blonde hair and a stone also stained with blood. The police already had reason to doubt Lara's story, since his wife had one of hers. The lieutenant said some people are leaving. accident scenes because they're scared but they come back a short time later or something but that's not what Ed did and here in Lara's shed there was evidence to suggest that her car was not that it had hit Kaylee with the rock stained with red. bagged as a potential murder weapon and Kayle's Sawyer's disappearance had suddenly become a murder investigation, the main suspect was nowhere to be found, but in the shed there was more evidence of the maob and disturbed mind that could have been committed. such a crime.

Lara had studied crime. justice leaning against the shed wall was a

college

psychology project a graphic informational poster about the railroad killer the railroad killer was a mexican serial killer active in the 1990s he was a homeless man who jumped off trains to avoid detection while murdering at least 15 people across the United States in Mexico Lara's sign was stained with red paint to imitate blood splatters and handprints along with graphic images of the victims' bodies. The railroad killer's weapon of choice was whatever he had closest to hand, including heavy stones. It was a chilling parallel to the way we police now.

He believed Kayle's Sawyer might have died and an indication of the suspected killer's fascination with the murder. The police returned to Isabelle to learn more about Edwin Lara's character. She asked him if he was a drinker, had anger problems or had ever been violent. She told them that she and her husband. She had stopped drinking when they returned to church and that Lara had never been violent towards her, however, Lara had been having an affair, he had family in California and had been dating a woman there while Isabelle was at the police academy. , according to Isabelle, she had begged him. for his forgiveness and were working on it Lara's coworkers told a more sinister story at work in security at the community

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he had shown naked photos of himself and his lover to his colleagues and supposedly had a fascination with dead bodies , this made one The cadet was so uncomfortable that she refused to ride in a car with him.

Isabelle, however, wanted to keep him close after finding out about the affair. She made several trips with Lara at her work. Usually, she drove alone in the campus security car that she showed off. his wife areas around the city that were out of the way hidden from public view he was intimately familiar with the back roads in the area at the time the police knew they were searching for Kayle's body and with this new information it was clear he could have hidden her . There was a clue anywhere to locate her remains, but even more urgent was finding the killer himself, and the police had no idea where he might have fled to.

Edwin Lara knew he was in trouble, the story he had told Isabelle didn't hold up and even though the police had believed he would still be guilty of a crime, he was on the run and his desperate attempts to stay free led to a wave of crimes that SED Terror in two states the first person to be a victim of Lara's murderous desperation was 19 years old. One-year-old Andrea May was working at Ross Dress For Less in Salem, Oregon, a city a few hours northeast of Ben at 8:45 p.m. After a 12 hour shift she got into her car and relaxed for a moment on social media, she took a selfie to post on Snapchat and was reading a Facebook message from a friend when Edwin Lara decidedLura had described where he had killed her and had written another note that said this note to say: "I'm sorry for taking your dad's life I'm sorry your mom I'm sorry it was an accident she screamed and I had to silence her my intention was not forever to my wife I'm sorry I will always love you the evidence painted a contradictory picture, he was unquestionably guilty of murder, but he was showing pride and remorse for what he had done.

The answers were in Lara's police interview. First he kept the story that. He had told his wife that he accidentally hit Kaylee, who was drunk. I know he wasn't angry, he wanted to go out and he was going to turn south on College Way in lot D4, so he was going to turn south on the. area there and I didn't see her, she was dressed all in black, so I was in a hurry, so it was my fault and then I wasn't expecting anyone, you know, at that time of night, so I turned around and I mean, I didn't see her.

I drove so hard, I hit her with the petol. with the front grill and she fell and at first I thought the first thing she was oh I killed her you know but I didn't hit her that hard so I got out of the car and she was really drunk and then look I and then she started to scream she started screaming you did it so I panicked and just grabbed a little but the detectives now knew this wasn't true they kept pressing him for answers he admitted to strangling her to silence her and then he admitted to assaulting her when I thought she was already dead, I was trying to paint a picture of panic and spontaneity, but the police knew better, so there are a couple of things you need to understand and we're finally getting to the real problem.

You knew she would never get out of the car the moment you closed that door, well let me finish, you need to let me finish right because I know, okay, because you said we were prostitutes, she says no, immediately you're going to give me your purse and your phone well, I knew she wasn't going to come out, she wasn't going to survive that encounter, she wasn't, you can't wait and let her live, can you and she can't make a phone call if you? "Hey, she wasn't right, you can't let her live, Edwin, we're missing something here, man, look, yeah, I know what you guys are thinking and it makes a lot of sense." He

does

it because why would you ask him why would you ask him? her bag?

What was in your head that made you want her bag? Because you know that in case she had a piece of gum, she could use her phone to call 911. so listen, listen to this according to your story, this is where it

does

n't make sense if your intention is not already there to do something to her. kind of harm or some kind of evil, some damn evil that is there, brother, you are there. I just have to face it, man, man, you can't chicken out, face that damn thing right now, if you know the only way, if you have no intention in your head of it, your thought is: I have to keep that phone away. from her because she is going to ask for help before something bad happens, you already made a decision, am I right or wrong?

Help me, so I made the decision to silence her to kill her. Let's be real when you say silence. she you mean kill her me her when you made that decision when she started screaming because she saw my face but you already took her phone you already took her away from making a call for help or contacting someone so you're already preserving yourself so I'm thinking what's it? Before, when you ask for the purse, I think you already know it in your head, I'm going to silence her, I'm going to kill her, otherwise why would you ask me when she gave it to me like she had given her phone because she knew her phone was back there as if It just clicked on my head and I put her bag back there.

Her phone is there, you know, so I said, "Give me, give me the bag," so tell me exactly how you said, "Give me your." bag, say exactly like you said, okay, so I want you to give me your bag like this, like this, like this, okay, then she walks over to the bag and I think your phone is not here and she says yes, so I start investigating. the bag with this hand and I find the phone and it's there so and you know very go away but right now she's struggling with the door and I and I tell her shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, do you know why?

I was relieved when you found that phone, you know why tell me why she wasn't calling and she was never going to run away because she already saw my face, you already saw your face and you already knew what you were going to do. You were going to silence her, you already told us, well, yes, but why else would you grab her phone? Because from the moment I knew she wasn't a prostitute, you know, and she's going to say, she's going to say something. I let her out of the car and she's going to say Hey, you know, security guard or something during her crime spree.

Lara had chosen her victims deliberately. Do you have dominion over a woman? Dominant mhm domain. Is there anything in her life that means less than yours? Okay, but you told us before, when you were trying to steal cars from people in Salem, you wanted a woman who was weaker because she knew a guy who was going to fight me and she didn't want to kill anyone, so you have dominance. The police brought in a pastor to appeal to Lara's religion for a clearer confession. The sound you heard after the hit of the first stone before hitting her with the second is an agonized breath and you know it is a sound of life leaving her body.

It is a The sound of the life that God breathed into her, leaving her and her life will no longer go away, it will end, it is a sound of everyone loving her, crying, it is the sound of her blood crying out from the damned earth. You know, this can allow you, no, no, you. I know what it is, you need to hear it though, okay, I respect you enough Edwin, at this point I've asked you for details and now I'll give you mine, okay, those are the cold hard facts, does God still love you? He will forgive you, he will return you to his heart, he will ask you, you will have to answer for yourself, but the truth of the matter is that his blood screams, man, that his life is gone, it will never be replaced, the truth of the fact.

Is this what Mook for a prostitute was an absolute angel she was the apple of her mom and dad's eye she was the breath they breathed they spent and cultivated their whole life growing and growing and she was gone forever finally Lara broke , he confessed to the horror that was inside him, the impulse to kill. I think throughout my life I have struggled in some ways with the urge to kill, but what has helped me not develop it in a sense was when I married my wife, it dissipated because I have something. What I have to look for before going up is addressed to dad, yes, the last one is fine.

I think it would play pretty well on the recording if we read this out loud. It would surely show some of your emotions. It could show you want me to read. I would love for you to read it, thank you sir. I would be trying to ask Ktie for forgiveness, but I don't think his soul hears my cry because God doesn't allow the devil to talk to angels, however, I know Kaye hears him and if you find him inside your heart please ask him to let me know. excuse me I know I will spend the rest of my life asking God to forgive me, but I don't think he will, sir, this is directed at her father.

I'm not sure what your name is. but I know for sure that you loved your daughter I read something that you were desperately looking for her to touch the little heart that I have inside me I say little heart a little because a man like me does not have a heart a man like me does not deserve the job I had and I will never do it again having the cocc no one has to pay for my bad actions all the officers on campus are great men and women I'm sorry for my community I'm sorry because I'm sorry for wearing the badge in the early hours of July 24th.

Kaylee Sawyer had walked away from the apartment she shared with her boyfriend and she arrived at Lara's campus security van labeled Public Safety. In a peaceful town like Bend, I wouldn't have felt afraid. Getting into the car, it is unknown why she did it, but it was the last tragic decision she would make within herself. Lara proposed offering him money when she refused, he took her purse and her phone. The car was the only car in the campus security fleet that was equipped. with an inner cage like a police car that she couldn't escape from, instead she was helpless when Lara strangled her unconscious before taking her to one of the dark and less traveled roads that he knew from his work when she woke up again and she desperately tried to get attention by screaming and shouting there was no one around to hear her yet Lara strangled her again to silence her then he smashed a rock on her head and attacked her thinking she was dead he hit her again and again until he killed her and He then left to clean himself of evidence before dumping her body in a ditch.

Kaylee Sawyer had been robbed of her life by a man who had given in to her most evil impulses. All that was left was to get justice for her murder. Prosecutors faced an obstacle to Lara's disturbing life. The confession was ruled inadmissible due to a misunderstanding over whether she had been offered a lawyer or not, but even without the confession, the physical evidence and witness evidence was undeniable, number one for our Kay to return to us alive and well. and he will continue with his life, number two. I would like this piece of trash to be defended to the death for what he has done to Mike Haley and number three.

I would like the court system and the state of Oregon to hand him over to me and allow me to manage the death in January 2018 Edwin Lara pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and grand robbery and was sentenced to life in prison without parole today I have seen pain today I have seen your name I don't have much to say to you right now I just have a prayer something I would like to talk to whoever is willing to listen Almighty God who is in trouble o and I will ask you to please heal the hearts of all the broken hearts in this community in 2019 They gave him a second life sentence for the kidnapping and car theft.

Andrea Mae had committed horrible crimes for no other reason than the need to do so, who knows what more evils he could have committed if he had not been stopped by the efforts of Andrea Isabelle and the 911 operator who convinced him to turn himself in. In 2019, the Oregon legislature passed Kayle's Law. This law that Kayle's family campaigned for was intended to ensure that such a horrible fate could never happen to another young person who trusted campus security to keep them safe. Lara had shown several signs that he was dangerous and his employers. He had done nothing about it, allowing her to continue driving the vehicle with which he posed as a police officer.

Kayle's Law ensures that campus security in Oregon can never again be confused with police and that someone like Edwin Lara will not be in a position of trust. abused for the reason of murder. I gave birth to my first grandchild and she is very special. Kayla was a warrior, but like I said in her Memorial, she didn't carry a bow and arrow or Tomahawk, she carried a smile and she carried love and that's the type. As much of a warrior as she was, what do you think about this disturbing story? Did Lara really feel remorse or was it just an act?

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