

Oregon police told them that maybe she had gone to a friend’s house and she would probably be back to her job on Monday morning, everybody knew Kaylee was too responsible to miss work. Then he decided to call 911 and explain the situation to the police. Camron called Kaylee’s mom, Juli VanCleave, to see if maybe she was with her but no luck. Camron drove around the neighborhood to see if he could find her but she was nowhere so he drove back home and went to bed thinking he would wake up to his girlfriend sleeping next to him but next morning Kaylee wasn’t there. They continued to argue through text messages and at some point Camron told her it was late and to please come home, but Kaylee sent one more message saying she was running out of battery and said bye. When Kaylee Sawyer and Camron got home, he went into the apartment thinking Kaylee was coming right behind him but she stayed outside and sent him a message saying she needed to go for a walk to cool off, this wasn’t really unusual for Kaylee, so Camron didn’t make a big thing of it. Once in the car, Kaylle and Camron had an argument.

When the party was dying, around midnight, Kaylee called Camron and asked him to pick her up. On the night of Saturday July 23, 2016, Kaylee had been invited to a friend’s bachelorrete party, her friends said Kelley was having a lot of fun and she was even flirting and dancing with a guy. Kayle lived in an apartment near to college campus with her boyfriend of two years, Camron Reimhofer. She loved her job and wanted to become a dentist herself. 23 year old Kaylee sawyer was a student of Central Oregon Community College and she worked as a dental assistant. Her parents were Jamie Sawyer and Juli Walden VanCleave, they got divorced when Kaylee was a kid, she had four younger brothers. Kaylee Sawyer was born on Main Bend, Oregon. Edwin Lara had an urge to kill and said killing Kaylee made him feel good. I was never this kind of guy.”Ĭharges for the California shooting and carjacking are still pending.Kaylee Sawyer, was kidnapped, choked, raped and her head was brutally smashed. “I wish I could take everything back,” he said.

Lara told the judge Thursday that he was sorry. They were later released along Interstate 5 before the car was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol.

Lara with the woman fled on foot to a gas station where Lara is accused of carjacking a vehicle with a woman and her two sons inside. He then had them drive to Yreka, California, where authorities say he shot and wounded a man at a motel. He had her stop at a motel in Cottage Grove where he handcuffed her and where the prosecutor said she made up a story about a sexually transmitted disease to avoid sexual assault. While she drove, the prosecutor said Lara showed her pictures of him as a campus security officer for Central Oregon Community College and news reports about the 23-year-old woman he’d just killed. He opened her passenger door, pointed a gun at her and demanded she drive. Lichvarcik described how Lara, on the run from his fatal beating of Sawyer, “hunted” for a carjacking victim in Salem, finding Maes as she left her job at a clothing store. The three-day crime spree Lara engaged in could only be explained by his client’s genetic, degenerative cognitive brain disability, identified in a recent evaluation, Sabitt said.Īssistant U.S. Lara’s defense lawyer, Mark Sabitt, had argued that the federal sentence was unnecessary. “I’m stronger than I’ve ever been, and you’re going to rot where you belong,” she said. District Court in Eugene after Lara pleaded guilty to her carjacking and kidnapping. Prosecutors after the killing, Lara kidnapped Aundreah Maes in the state capital of Salem and drove to California where he is accused of shooting and injuring a man. The 34-year-old was sentenced in Oregon state court last year to life without parole for the July 24, 2016, sexual assault, kidnapping and killing of Kaylee Sawyer in Bend. The uncommon federal sentence marks Lara’s second life prison term.
