by funfungiguy » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:40 am
I've got a news article here on Baxter's original crime and sentencing, guys. Six killings... Four males, two females... claims he was protecting his property after they found the bodies in shallow graves around his dump in the woods... Here's the article if anyone wants to browse it.
Timber Grove Gazette December 21, 1973
“Paul Bunyon Killer” Sentenced To Life Without Parole
TIMBER GROVE, OREGON – Logan Baxter – no known previous address – was sentenced to life without parole in the Oregon State Penitentiary for his role in the Paul Bunyon Butcher Murders in April of this year. Baxter was found guilty of murdering six visitors to the Tillamook State Forest with a hand axe.
While police were investigating the disappearance of Stephanie Stevens, Roger and Rebecca Simmons, Paul Monroe, Jarrod Parker, and Will Barnes, they discovered Baxter living in a ramshackle structure deep in the state forest. The bodies of all six victims were found beheaded and buried in shallow graves around the small shack. When his motives were questioned, Baxter stated that he was simply “protecting his property,” as he felt the state forest was his land. Baxter had been in trouble with police in the past for assault, theft, and vagrancy.
When asked by Judge John Myers if he had anything to say before being sentenced for the six killings, Baxter smiled as if he was in on some private joke and shook his head.
A memorial for the six victims was erected at the site of the murders in Tillamook State Forest as a tribute of remembrance.