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Keith Baker, 73, is a Vietnam Veteran and was a highly experienced search and rescue team member with the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Baker did two tours in Vietnam, where he was trained to be a sniper and a tunnel rat. Whether in the jungles of Southeast Asia or in the pine and juniper trees of Central Oregon, Baker could see a story unfold when tracking people or animals in remote areas. From a young age, Baker would follow his father into the woods and learn how to tra...
The Times-Journal is conducting interviews and republishing articles about the 1994 killing of cowboy Phillip Brooks on the Foppiano Ranch in Wheeler County. Brooks was killed on September 20, 1994. "I would rather know that whoever killed Phil Brooks was rotting in jail now than anticipating that person will be rotting in hell sometime later. In other words, I'm for the here-and-now in the case instead of putting it up to God to dispatch this murderer on to Hades in the...
From the Times-Journal, September 29, 1994 A 23-year old Mitchell man has died from an apparent gun-shot wound in southern Wheeler County, according to Wheeler County District Attorney Thomas Cutsforth. James Phillip Brooks went for a horseback ride on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 20. He was reported missing Wednesday afternoon, and the Sheriff's Search and Rescue team commenced a search of the remote area which continued throughout the night. Additional resources,...
Wheeler County's only cold-case murder is approaching another grim milestone, as the 30th anniversary of Phil Brook's murder approaches. Killed on September 20, 1994 – the last day of summer – Phil Brooks was out riding his sister's horse on his day off when he was shot through the heart with a high-powered rifle. The assailant was never convicted, and while there are strong suspicions that a couple who had secured hunting rights on the Fopiano could be to blame, the cri...
