Murder in the Parking Garage

0:18So, Lieutenant Lin, tell me about, you know, getting the call that night and what did you get exactly as far as the call? The caller's information stated that this will be the parking garage where the victim's phone was located.

0:42So this is the parking garage right here? This is the parking garage to my left, yes. And what level was the car parked then? The car was parked on the second level. So, like, right about there. Yeah, it's right, you can kind of see it right behind these traffic lights, essentially. So when I entered the garage, I saw a black Honda Civic. I saw a body, a person sitting in the driver's seat.

1:13At first, I thought it was this person taking a nap. But because the position of their head, I could see there's some discoloration around the neck area. So I decided to knock on the window. There was no response. So I radioed. He was likely deceased. This is one of the Intel campus we have in the city. This is one of their civil parking garages. They have surveillance cameras throughout the garage. I took a closer look, and that's when I realized they were painted old. Like dripping paint style? Like it dripped. It looked like it was spray paint. We locked down the garage, and I request detective response.

2:01He had been identified as Kenneth Fandridge, and he was a contractor at Intel. Doing union pipe fitting. He looked like he had passed peacefully. His hands were placed in his lab. We thought that that was strange. But are you operating as if this is a homicide, possibly murder, already? Oh, we always do. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That night, we actually had a patrol officer in the Intel command center, where they have all their hundreds of cameras. They kept texting me little clips. All of a sudden, we have some random person, we have no idea who it is, that's going around spray painting about a half a dozen or so cameras in this parking garage.

2:41Look at him just coming around the corner like that. He's obviously in disguise. He's wearing a black mask covering most of his face, the safety glasses, and then the hard hat. So obviously he's trying to conceal his identity. He does a pretty good job of spray painting, really kind of obscuring enough of the camera. You see a lot of movement happening all of a sudden. Then you see a lot of lights. A lot of lights flashing. What's going on in there during that when you see those lights flashing? That's when the person is murdering Kenneth.

3:18So it was really initially like this big whodunit for us, a big mystery. I mean, had you ever seen anything like that? Not in real life, no. This was straight out of the movies.

3:46How would you two characterize this case when you first got it? What did you think? You know, I just thought that it's a wild case. Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rego of the Hillsborough, Oregon Police Department had never encountered a crime scene like the one they encountered in January 2023.

4:08It was in the evening after nine. So we all got a page on our department cell phones saying that there was death at Intel. Intel, the giant tech company known for its innovative computer chips, had several large production facilities in Hillsborough, Oregon, outside Portland. It didn't make sense. He looked like he had passed peacefully. There was minimal blood within the car. The deceased was Kenneth Kenny Fandrich, age 56, a contract pipe fitter at the plant. His wife, Tanya, had reported him missing when he was late getting home. Like many couples, they share their locations on their phones.

4:52Tanya tracked him to the Intel parking lot. What's wrong? We're not sure right now. She was already there at the garage when police arrived with body cameras rolling. Where is he? He's here in the garage somewhere. A short time later, she learned that her husband was dead.

5:18The Hillsborough Police Mobile Command Post was stationed at the scene, and that was where detectives first talked to Tanya. That night, you brought Tanya Vandrich right in here. What does she seem like to you? She was very monotone in the way she was speaking. Detective Deanna Mesh was first to interview Tanya.

5:38Natalie Morales:She seemed very out of her body, like she didn't react as much as you would think somebody would but had to kind of pull a lot of the answers out of her. Detective Mesh learned more about why Tanya had been at the scene. She told me that they had some issues in the past with their marriage. Now, they would check in on each other more often. Do alarm bells sort of go off here? Yeah, there was some suspicion. We always look at the people closest to the disease. But Mesh knew better than to draw conclusions right away. Everybody grieves differently. It just was different than other victims I've seen.

6:26There was a lot to process for Tanya and investigators. The scene did not appear violent. His lunch bag, his lunch, his keys, his phone, all set neatly next to him in the passenger seat. My first thought was, how are we going to figure this out? Their first clues would come from those surveillance cameras. So he will pop up right here next to that column that we're seeing right here in the corner. So he kind of waits for a camera and then just pops up. The detectives discovered a man wearing a hard hat and red mirror-tinted glasses had actually spray-painted those cameras around 7 a.m. earlier that same day, his movements undetected by Intel security.

7:18I want to say about six or seven cameras. But there were also cameras that had not been sprayed, and investigators locked in on images of a vehicle they believed belonged to the suspect. Looking at early afternoon now, and then we see this maroon van come in the parking garage. And no front plate on the car. It was an older, maroon-colored Dodge van. They tracked the van's movements, camera by camera, before it disappeared under a layer of blue spray paint. Moments later, they could just make out the van, pulling into a parking spot. So right here, you can see that the van is this shadow right in here.

8:08Okay, right. And then this vehicle right here is actually Kenneth Vandridge's black Honda Civic. It was 3.21 p.m. Just after Kenny had finished his shift, here he is on video walking back through the garage. And then, very hard to see behind the blue spray paint. You can see a little bit of movement right here in the thing. And that is Kenneth walking back to his car. You just kind of have to watch the kind of shadows, essentially, what's going on between the two vehicles. You start seeing the headlights flash a couple times like, you know, somebody would be unlocking their car. Detectives say the headlights on Kenny's Honda flashed as he unlocked his car with his key fob.

8:58That's when they believe the masked man grabbed Fandridge, still holding onto his keys. You see a lot of movement happening all of a sudden. Then you see a lot of lights. A lot of lights. Detectives say that's Kenny desperately pushing his key fob as the masked man dragged him into that maroon van. What do you think that's what's going on in there during that when you see those lights flashing? We think that's when the person in the van is murdering Kenneth. Detectives say Kenny was killed inside that maroon Dodge van before the killer staged Kenny's body in his black Honda. That meant the van itself would be a critical piece of evidence.

9:41The actual murder scene. There could have been clothing and who knows what else in that minivan. But finding the van would be a challenge. They couldn't see the license plates or the driver. The results of the autopsy would reveal Kenny Fandridge had died from blunt and compressive trauma of his neck. His neck had been broken. But who would want to kill Kenny Fandridge? It was really initially like this big whodunit for us, a big mystery. A mystery they hope might be solved when Intel security staff told investigators about another incident. Additional video images from the garage recorded a month earlier.

10:28We learned that, hey, about a month prior, we reported our cameras being spray painted as well. That incident was investigated. Criminal mischief call. Criminal mischief call. But they never figured out who it was. It was a man dressed in a construction helmet, black glasses, a mask. And we're like, well, that's a clue. Investigators were 100 % certain it was the same person wearing different glasses. And they say these new images revealed an unusual clue. We had this distinctive forehead crease that we could see in this photo. That little bit of forehead that you see. Just the little bit of forehead, that's what we got.

11:18It's a very odd clue right there. It is, but for us, it was a big deal. And the detectives had one other big deal. Something Tanya Fandrich had told them the night her husband died. Has he been having any issues lately? No, but he has a stalker. A stalker who had been harassing her husband. And she had proof. A video from their own home security camera. I actually see the person kind of crawl and move around a bit underneath the trailer right there.

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13:18So this is the carport at the Fandrich's house out in Oregon City. In the early hours of the investigation into the murder of Kenny Fandrich, his wife Tanya told detectives her husband had a stalker. seen here on the couple's home security cameras in their carport. Here's some sort of utility trailer right here. And you'll notice right under the trailer, you actually see the person kind of crawl and move around a bit underneath the trailer right there. Tanya told detectives the stalker was her old boss, Stephen Milner. Dr. Stephen Milner was a well-to-do veterinarian worth millions. She had worked with him in his clinic as a vet tech.

14:09You ready for your close-up doggies? Huh? Hi, Miley. You ready? Crazy dogs. So Dr. Milner was how you two met, right? Yes. Yes. Friends Cheryl Coquette and Darlene Robinson were longtime clients of the vet. What was he like as a vet? He was wonderful. He was very compassionate, caring, kind. He was a great vet. Cheryl even took part in a video Dr. Milner made for his clinic, which had aired on the local news. Hi, Cheryl. Hi, Dr. Milner. Hey, Princess. If I can do an alternative thing that doesn't require medication, you know, drugs and chemicals, that's really nice. She's a happy girl. The kind of vet that gets down at the level of the dog, like on the floor with them.

14:55Definitely, on the floor. And both Cheryl and Darlene knew Tanya, at least by sight. She was there for, I think, 19 years, and she was the one who would come out and get us to take us back to the room and kind of do the intake on the animals. Just a sweet, nice lady, very, you know, kind of quiet, but super friendly and very caring. Detectives soon learned about a complicated relationship between Tanya and Dr. Milner. Tanya told investigators she and Dr. Milner had once had an affair. It began in early 2017. At the time, Milner was separated, and Tanya said her relationship with Kenny hit a rough patch.

15:45Did you notice any interactions between her and Dr. Milner? Just completely professional. It was just, you know, he comes in, she goes out of the room. He was the boss, in a way. Yeah. But Darlene thought she noticed something. There came a point where my brain just kind of went, I wonder if there's, you know, something going on. Because just looks they would give each other. Milner and Tanya tried to keep their affair quiet, say investigators. Milner even gave her a secret name. Kiki. One of the nicknames was Kiki Essex. Prosecutor Mahaley Streblow worked on the case. It's one of those that's like, you know, the name of your first pet and then the street that you grew up on.

16:32But the couple's affair was exposed after a few months in July 2017 when they attended a wedding together. Prosecutor John Gerhard. There were employees from the veterinary clinic that were there. She was under the impression that Kenneth was out of town for work. Tanya indicated that they had both been drinking and that they were engaging in more physical intimacy in front of the employees during that wedding. As the night ended, Tanya went home with Dr. Milner. Lo and behold, Kenneth was not out of town for work. When Tanya didn't return home that night, Kenny went to Milner's house. And that's how they got caught.

17:18Kenny didn't confront or make a big scene at the house. He kind of left the house and then started calling to try to figure out what's going on. According to Tanya, she ended the affair soon after they were caught. After that, the relationship with Tanya and Stephen Milner kind of stopped. And that's when, Kenny said, Dr. Milner started harassing him. When Kenny came to me, he was terrified. Michael Fuller was Kenny's attorney. The stalking issue had basically consumed his life. Fuller says Milner started with harassing calls, then escalated from there. Milner literally coming onto his property in the middle of the night, following him to work, threatening him, those type of things.

18:03Tanya eventually left Milner's clinic. But Milner continued to track Kenny. Detectives found plenty of evidence of exactly how he did it. Tanya actually provided this to us, and this is one of the actual tracking devices that Stephen Milner had placed on one of their vehicles. Is this the device there? So this is the device. Uh-huh. We believe this to be the battery pack. And what the intent and put it in this case with the magnets and then put it up underneath their vehicle. In August 2019, roughly two years after Tanya said she ended the affair, Kenny applied for an order of protection against Milner.

18:45But detectives would learn the harassment continued and the vet's infatuation with Tanya deepened. He wanted Tanya and he wasn't going to stop.

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19:35Within days of Kenny Fandrich's death, investigators set their sights on a suspect. veterinarian Dr. Stephen Milner. Detectives learned he was obsessed with Tanya. There were love notes. So one of them was, the one absolute rock-solid truth is that I love you. I have never loved anyone that way. I am consumed by your soul. He wrote letters like that for years, even after Tanya had said the affair was over. Detectives also learned more about Tanya's relationship with her husband, Kenny. It was a tumultuous relationship. Alcohol came into play between them. They were often, as you can say, hot and cold.

20:25They argued a lot. Kenny had been charged with domestic violence years before, but the charges were not pursued and the couple reconciled. Then in August 2021, years after Tanya says she ended the affair with Milner, the couple had another fight. This time, she was arrested. Why isn't he getting arrested? The next day, something surprising happened. Somebody posted her bail. She had a$25 ,000 bail. When she leaves the jail, Stephen Milner's in the parking lot waiting for her. Tanya told investigators she ended up staying with the doctor for a couple of days before returning to Kenny. She insisted nothing romantic happened.

21:12Milner was just helping her out as a friend. To this day, none of us can figure out how Stephen Milner actually found out she had been arrested that night. That case was later dismissed and the couple reunited again. But Milner's campaign of harassment continued. What do you think his end goal was? What did he think he could do? End their marriage and then end up happily ever after with Tanya? Exactly. We think that that's what his plan was. He wanted Kenneth out of the picture so he could be that white knight to save Tanya. in march of 2022 just 10 months before kenny's murder milner followed kenny from oregon city all the way to hillsborough a 45 minute drive kenny spotted him and called the police and milner was pulled over as body cameras captured the interaction hi i'm sir edward Do you know why we're stopping you today?

22:15Yeah, I'm trying to get a hold of this guy. I'm following him. The responding officer learned from dispatch that there was history between the two men. What's your role in the whole thing? She's been a friend of mine for 20 years. Milner told police he believed Tanya was in danger because she had allegedly told him Kenny was abusive. I'm the only person who gives a s*** and I'm not allowed to give a s***. So, here's my advice to you. Okay, this is very, very strong advice. Leave them alone. He wants nothing to do with you. She wants nothing to do with you. If you show up at their house, if you contact them, anything like that, you're going to go to jail.

22:55Thank you. After that traffic stop, Kenny filed for a new order for protection. The original one had expired years earlier. Kenny was absolutely in fear of his life. And two weeks later, he was so stressed out, he told police he crashed his car. My wife and I have been fighting today. Sorry? And I thought she was at her boss's house where I've caught her cheating on me. Sorry? And I was driving over there, and he's just like right down the road, and I lost control of my car.

23:45Kenny's attorney says his client had every reason to be stressed out. Kenny told me that Milner said, hey, I'm a veterinarian, I've done surgeries, and I have the tools to chop you up into little pieces. In August of 2022, after Kenny found another tracking device under his car, Milner was criminally charged and was awaiting trial. It was pretty clear to me that Milner was not in his right mind. Just a month later, Kenny filed a civil suit, seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress, allegedly brought on by Milner's stalking, harassment, and trespass.

24:29Five months later, Kenny Fandrich was dead. Just days after the murder, detectives were convinced that Stephen Milner was that man behind the mask. But they needed more evidence. We need to get eyes on Stephen Milner because we know there was some sort of violent confrontation. We want to see if he had any injuries. Not wanting to tip him off, investigators asked him to come in for a check-in about the stalking case. We arranged a meeting for Stephen to come in to sign some paperwork. Detective Winter was inside at a reception desk. And your goal, sitting there at the receptionist desk, sort of is an undercover, right?

25:13I wanted to see if he had any injury to himself. He walks in. He looks extremely nervous. Another person in the office noticed something. She says, hey, he's got makeup on his face. Makeup, investigators say, Milner used to cover up a scratch on his nose. Bingo, you're thinking, we got our guy? I, yep, at that point, I thought, this is him, this is our guy that did this. Moments later, after Milner walked out the door. Hi, sir, I'm Debbie Davis, the sheriff's office. We're being recorded by my camera, so everything's going to be audio and visual recorded. Do you understand that? Yes. Okay, sounds good.

25:51Right now, you're being detained. On January 31, 2023, four days after Kenny Fandrich was found dead, Stephen Milner was taken into custody and within days, charged with second-degree murder and stalking. with milner in custody detectives rego and winter were quickly able to connect one important clue from those surveillance camera images that unusual crease in the masked man's forehead there's that very prominent forehead crease that i don't he couldn't hide if he tried there's no amount of makeup hiding that crease No. Do you feel at this point, you've got like a pretty solid case? We had a lot of circumstantial pieces, like putting the puzzle together.

26:47But we were just at the tip of the iceberg of what we still need to find out. More puzzle pieces would be found in Milner's house.

27:12It was shocking that somebody this successful, a doctor, now suspect in a murder. With Dr. Stephen Milner now in police custody, Hillsborough detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rego set out to find evidence that could prove Milner was at the scene. when Kenny Fandrich was murdered. As soon as he's arrested, we're getting search warrants for his DNA to be taken. We're getting search warrants for his house as well. And detectives weren't quite prepared for what they found at his home. We found a cardboard cutout behind a mirror of Stephen Milner's face placed on a very oiled masculine man with a dog paw tattoo over his heart.