25 APR 2019 · Bob Gilbert was accustomed to pulling up leaves and dead fish during his raking, but on this day, he found something that would set in motion one of the biggest shocks of Bend, Oregon's short history.

25 APR 2019 · It took one month from the time the first body parts were discovered at the dam until police – through dental records, like Leo had hoped – were able to positively ID the victim as 49-year-old Mary Jo Templeton.

25 APR 2019 · When first looking at suspects, police will always start with the innermost circle of a victim’s family and work their way out to an ever-widening circle of ex-lovers, friends, and then acquaintances. And sure enough, after the dismembered body in Mirror Pond was identified as Mary Jo Templeton, lead detective Larson’s notebooks reveal that he too was beginning with the inner-circle – in particular, with two of Templeton’s four ex-husbands: Elmer Kohler and Chuck Blaylock.

25 APR 2019 · Joseph Fischer told police that he would drink two quarts of whiskey a day, then find people to kill who reminded him of his mother. He despised her, of course, and once said if he could dig her up, he’d make soup out of her. While on his self-professed killing spree, Fischer stated to authorities that he had committed murders in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Washington, and Oregon.

25 APR 2019 · There’s endless laughter, tears, and affection from Templeton’s family and friends. And then – from police reports – there are the accounts of domestic disturbances, public intoxication, and criminal mischief.

25 APR 2019 · It takes determination, it takes passion…but it also takes a little bit of luck. A lot of these cold cases…people sit at their desk and they’ll wait for that phone call to come in to crack the case. They’ll wait for that tip instead of getting off your ass and goin’ and knocking on doors…and that’s what needs to be done. All cases are solvable. A forty-year-old case is no different. You just have to keep pushing and you push through until you get that breakthrough.