Sandy River

I used a half-inch soft nylon rope, burnt on one end, frayed cut on the other, and tied it around her neck.

I threw her Walkman and her purse into the Sandy River.

I cut the buttons off her jeans.

I left her facing downhill and her jeans down by her ankles."

Oh my God.

He said he put Tanya's body in his vehicle, drove her into the Columbia Gorge and left her in the woods near Crown Point.

The following morning, he said he returned to the area and scattered the contents of her purse along the Sandy River.

And a lot of what he said fit the crime really well.

We had...

That's when the Sandy River had a run, uh, you probably heard of it when you were out here, called Last Chance.

Yeah.

It disappeared, like, 2008 probably, but it was...

Patrick Corbett- An interstate but an inter country intercontinental relationship through the Columbia it's also tied to the snake river.

to the Sandy River, the Deschutes, John Day, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Grand Ronde, Imnaha, and more on the Oregon side, and many others like the Cowlitz, the Kwikitat, White Salmon, Yakima, and Walla Walla on the other side in Washington.

So it's a very significant river.

All of those rivers that I mentioned, the tributaries, all have salmon and steelhead in them.