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00:18so lieutenant lynn tell me about you know getting the call that night and what did you get exactly
00:24as far as the call the caller's information uh stated that this will be the parking garage where
00:30his the victim's phone was located so this is the parking garage right here this is the parking
00:45garage to my left yes and what level was the car parked then uh the the car was parked on
00:52the second
00:52level so like right about there yeah it's right you can kind of see it right behind these traffic
00:58lights essentially so when i entered the garage i saw black on the civic i saw a body a person
01:08sitting
01:08in the driver's seat at first i thought it was this person taking a nap but because the position of
01:18their head i could see there's some discoloration around the neck area so i decided to knock on the
01:24window there was no response so i radioed he was likely deceased this is one of the intel campus we
01:32have in the city this is one of their civil parking garages they have surveillance cameras throughout
01:37the garage i took a closer look and that's when i realized they were painted over
01:47like dripping paint still like it dripped it looked like it was a spray paint
01:53we locked down the garage and i request detective response
02:00he had been identified as kenneth fandridge and he was a contractor at intel doing union pipe fitting he
02:07looked like he had passed peacefully his hands were placed in his lab we thought that that was
02:12strange but are you operating as if this is a homicide possibly murder already oh we always do yeah
02:21that night we actually had a patrol officer in the intel command center where they have all their
02:26hundreds of cameras they kept texting me little clips
02:31all of a sudden we have some random person we have no idea who it is that's going around spray
02:36painting about a half a dozen or so cameras in the sparking garage look at him just coming around
02:42the corner like that he's obviously in disguise he's wearing a black mask covering most of his face the
02:49the safety glasses and then the hard hat so obviously he's trying to conceal his identity
02:56he does a pretty good job of spray painting really kind of obscuring enough of the camera you see a
03:02lot of
03:02movement happening all of a sudden then you see a lot of lights a lot of lights what is what's
03:07going
03:07on in there during that when you see those lights flashing that's when the person is murdering kenneth
03:18so it was really initially like this big whodunit for us a big mystery i mean had you ever seen
03:24anything like it's like that not not in real life no this was straight out of the movies
03:42a big mystery
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04:24How would you two characterize this case when you first got it?
04:28What did you think?
04:29You know, I just thought that it's a wild case.
04:32Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rego of the Hillsborough, Oregon Police Department
04:37had never encountered a crime scene like the one they encountered in January 2023.
04:47It was in the evening after nine.
04:50So we all got a page on our department cell phones saying that there was death at Intel.
04:54Intel, the giant tech company known for its innovative computer chips, had several large
05:01production facilities in Hillsborough, Oregon, outside Portland.
05:05It didn't make sense.
05:07He looked like he had passed peacefully.
05:09There was minimal blood within the car.
05:12The deceased was Kenneth Kenny Fandrich, age 56, a contract pipe fitter at the plant.
05:21His wife, Tanya, had reported him missing when he was late getting home.
05:27Like many couples, they share their locations on their phones.
05:31Tanya tracked him to the Intel parking lot.
05:34What's wrong?
05:36We're not sure right now.
05:37She was already there at the garage when police arrived with body cameras rolling.
05:42Where is he?
05:43We're going to have medics.
05:44We're going to have, he's here in the garage somewhere.
05:48A short time later, she learned that her husband was dead.
05:56The Hillsborough Police Mobile Command Post was stationed at the scene, and that was where
06:02detectives first talked to Tanya.
06:05That night, you brought Tanya Vandrich right in here.
06:08What does she seem like to you?
06:10She was very monotone in the way she was speaking.
06:13Detective Deanna Mesh was first to interview Tanya.
06:16She seemed very out of her body, like she didn't react as much as you would think somebody
06:27would, but had to kind of pull a lot of the answers out of her.
06:33Detective Mesh learned more about why Tanya had been at the scene.
06:37She told me that they had some issues in the past with their marriage.
06:42Now, they would check in on each other more often.
06:44Do alarm bells sort of go off here?
06:47Yeah, there was some suspicion.
06:49We always look at the people closest to the disease.
06:52But Mesh knew better than to draw conclusions right away.
06:56Everybody grieves differently.
06:58It just was different than other victims I've seen.
07:04There was a lot to process for Tanya and investigators.
07:09The scene did not appear violent.
07:11His lunch bag, his lunch, his keys, his phone, all set neatly next to him in the passenger seat.
07:19My first thought was, how are we going to figure this out?
07:21Their first clues would come from those surveillance cameras.
07:27So he will pop up right here next to that column that we're seeing right here in the corner.
07:34So he kind of waits for a camera and then just pops up.
07:41The detectives discovered a man wearing a hard hat and red mirror-tinted glasses had actually spray-painted those cameras
07:49around 7 a.m. earlier that same day.
07:53His movements undetected by Intel security.
07:56I want to say about 6 or 7 cameras.
08:00But there were also cameras that had not been sprayed.
08:04And investigators locked in on images of a vehicle they believed belonged to the suspect.
08:10Looking at early afternoon now, and then we see this maroon van come in the parking garage.
08:22It was an older, maroon-colored Dodge van.
08:27They tracked the van's movements camera by camera before it disappeared under a layer of blue spray paint.
08:36Moments later, they could just make out the van, pulling into a parking spot.
08:41So right here, you can see that the van is this shadow right in here.
08:47Okay, right.
08:48And then this vehicle right here is actually Kenneth Vandridge's black Honda Civic.
08:53It was 3.21 p.m.
08:56Just after Kenny had finished his shift, here he is on video walking back through the garage.
09:04And then, very hard to see behind the blue spray paint.
09:10You can see a little bit of movement right here in the thing.
09:14And that is Kenneth walking back to his car.
09:17You just kind of have to watch the kind of shadows, essentially, what's going on between the two vehicles.
09:24You start seeing the headlights flash a couple times like, you know, somebody would be unlocking their car.
09:30Detectives say the headlights on Kenny's Honda flashed as he unlocked his car with his key fob.
09:36That's when they believe the masked man grabbed Vandridge, still holding on to his keys.
09:43You see a lot of movement happening all of a sudden.
09:45Then you see a lot of light.
09:46A lot of light.
09:47Detectives say that's Kenny desperately pushing his key fob as the masked man dragged him into that maroon van.
09:54What do you think that's, what's going on in there during that, when you see those lights flashing?
09:59We think that's when the person in the van is murdering Kenneth.
10:06Detectives say Kenny was killed inside that maroon Dodge van before the killer staged Kenny's body in his black Honda.
10:15That meant the van itself would be a critical piece of evidence, the actual murder scene.
10:22There could have been clothing and who knows what else in that minivan.
10:26But finding the van would be a challenge.
10:29They couldn't see the license plates or the driver.
10:35The results of the autopsy would reveal Kenny Fandridge had died from blunt and compressive trauma of his neck.
10:44His neck had been broken.
10:46But who would want to kill Kenny Fandridge?
10:49It was really initially like this big whodunit for us, a big mystery.
10:54A mystery they hoped might be solved when Intel security staff told investigators about another incident.
11:02Additional video images from the garage recorded a month earlier.
11:07We learned that, hey, FYI, about a month prior, we reported our cameras being spray painted as well.
11:14That incident was investigated.
11:17Criminal mischief call.
11:18A criminal mischief call.
11:19But they never figured out who it was.
11:22It was a man dressed in a constructed helmet, black glasses, a mask.
11:28And we're like, well, that's a clue.
11:33Investigators were 100% certain it was the same person wearing different glasses.
11:39And they say these new images revealed an unusual clue.
11:44We had this distinctive forehead crease that we could see in this photo.
11:52That little bit of forehead that you see.
11:54Just the little bit of forehead, that's what we got.
11:57It's a very odd clue right there.
11:59It is.
11:59But for us, it was a big deal.
12:04And the detectives had one other big deal, something Tanya Fandrich had told them the night her husband died.
12:13Has he been having any issues lately?
12:17No, but he has a stalker.
12:19A stalker who had been harassing her husband.
12:22And she had proof.
12:24A video from their own home security camera.
12:27I have to see the person kind of crawl and move around a bit underneath the trailer right there.
12:57So this is the carport.
13:04In the early hours of the investigation into the murder of Kenny Fandrich, his wife, Tanya, told detectives her husband
13:13had a stalker.
13:15Seen here on the couple's home security cameras in their carport.
13:21Here's some sort of utility trailer right here.
13:23And you'll notice right under the trailer, you actually see the person kind of crawl and move around a bit
13:29underneath the trailer right there.
13:32Tanya told detectives the stalker was her old boss, Stephen Milner.
13:37Dr. Stephen Milner was a well-to-do veterinarian, worth millions.
13:42She had worked with him in his clinic as a vet tech.
13:50You ready for your close-up doggies?
13:53Huh?
13:53Huh, Miley?
13:54You ready?
13:55Crazy dogs.
13:56So Dr. Milner was how you two met, right?
13:59Yes.
13:59Yes.
14:00Friends Cheryl Coquette and Darlene Robinson were longtime clients of the vet.
14:06What was he like as a vet?
14:08He was wonderful.
14:10He was very compassionate, caring, kind.
14:13He was a great vet.
14:15Cheryl even took part in a video Dr. Milner made for his clinic, which had aired on the local news.
14:21Hi, Cheryl.
14:22Hi, Dr. Milner.
14:23Hi, Princess.
14:24If I can do an alternative thing that doesn't require medication, you know, drugs and chemicals, that's really nice.
14:30She's a happy girl.
14:32The kind of vet that gets down at the level of the dog, like on the floor with them.
14:36Definitely, on the floor.
14:37And both Cheryl and Darlene knew Tanya, at least by sight.
14:43She was there for, I think, 19 years, and she was the one who would come out and get us
14:49to take us back to the room and kind of do the intake on the animals.
14:54Just a sweet, nice lady, very, you know, kind of quiet, but super friendly and very caring.
15:01She gets spoiled.
15:03Detectives soon learned about a complicated relationship between Tanya and Dr. Milner.
15:08Tanya told investigators she and Dr. Milner had once had an affair.
15:14It began in early 2017.
15:16At the time, Milner was separated.
15:19And Tanya said her relationship with Kenny hit a rough patch.
15:26Did you notice any interactions between her and Dr. Milner?
15:30Just completely professional.
15:32It was just, you know, he comes in, she goes out of the room.
15:37He was the boss, in a way.
15:39But Darlene thought she noticed something.
15:42There came a point where my brain just kind of went, I wonder if there's, you know, something going on.
15:48Because just looks they would give each other.
15:51Milner and Tanya tried to keep their affair quiet, say investigators.
15:56Milner even gave her a secret name.
15:59Kiki.
16:00One of the nicknames was Kiki Essex.
16:04Prosecutor Mahaly Streeblow worked on the case.
16:07It's one of those that's like, you know, the name of your first pet and then the street that you
16:12grew up on.
16:13But the couple's affair was exposed after a few months.
16:17In July 2017, when they attended a wedding together.
16:22Prosecutor John Gerhard.
16:24There were employees from the veterinary clinic that were there.
16:28She was under the impression that Kenneth was out of town for work.
16:33Tanya indicated that they had both been drinking and that they were engaging in more physical intimacy in front of
16:41the employees during that wedding.
16:44As the night ended, Tanya went home with Dr. Milner.
16:48Lo and behold, Kenneth was not out of town for work.
16:51When Tanya didn't return home that night, Kenny went to Milner's house.
16:56And that's how they got caught.
16:59Kenny didn't confront or make a big scene at the house.
17:03He kind of left the house and then started calling to try to figure out what's going on.
17:09According to Tanya, she ended the affair soon after they were caught.
17:14After that, the relationship with Tanya and Stephen Milner kind of stopped.
17:19And that's when Kenny said Dr. Milner started harassing him.
17:23When Kenny came to me, he was terrified.
17:26Michael Fuller was Kenny's attorney.
17:29The stalking issue had basically consumed his life.
17:32Fuller says Milner started with harassing calls, then escalated from there.
17:38Milner literally coming onto his property in the middle of the night, following him to work, threatening him, those type
17:43of things.
17:43Tanya eventually left Milner's clinic.
17:48But Milner continued to track Kenny.
17:51Detectives found plenty of evidence of exactly how he did it.
17:56Tanya actually provided this to us.
17:58And this is one of the actual tracking devices that Stephen Milner had placed on one of their vehicles.
18:04Is this the device there?
18:06So this is the device.
18:08We believe this to be the battery pack.
18:10And where the intent and put it in this case with the magnets and then put it up underneath their
18:15vehicle.
18:16In August 2019, roughly two years after Tanya said she ended the affair,
18:23Kenny applied for an order of protection against Milner.
18:27But detectives would learn the harassment continued.
18:31And the vet's infatuation with Tanya deepened.
18:35He wanted Tanya and he wasn't going to stop.
18:59Within days of Kenny Fandrich's death, investigators set their sights on a suspect.
19:06Veterinarian Dr. Stephen Milner.
19:09Detectives learned he was obsessed with Tanya.
19:13There were love notes.
19:15So one of them was, the one absolute rock solid truth is that I love you.
19:21I have never loved anyone that way.
19:23I am consumed by your soul.
19:25He wrote letters like that for years.
19:28Even after Tanya had said the affair was over.
19:35Detectives also learned more about Tanya's relationship with her husband, Kenny.
19:41It was a tumultuous relationship.
19:43Alcohol came into play between them.
19:46They were often, as you can say, hot and cold.
19:49They argued a lot.
19:52Kenny had been charged with domestic violence years before.
19:55But the charges were not pursued and the couple reconciled.
20:00Then in August 2021, years after Tanya says she ended the affair with Milner, the couple had another fight.
20:08This time, she was arrested.
20:11Why isn't he getting arrested?
20:14The next day, something surprising happened.
20:18Somebody posted her bail.
20:20She had a $25,000 bail.
20:21When she leaves the jail, Stephen Milner's in the parking lot waiting for her.
20:26Tanya told investigators she ended up staying with the doctor for a couple of days before returning to Kenny.
20:33She insisted nothing romantic happened.
20:36Milner was just helping her out as a friend.
20:39To this day, none of us can figure out how Stephen Milner actually found out she had been arrested that
20:44night.
20:45That case was later dismissed and the couple reunited again.
20:50But Milner's campaign of harassment continued.
20:54What do you think his end goal was?
20:56What did he think he could do?
20:59End their marriage and then end up happily ever after with Tanya?
21:03Exactly.
21:04We think that that's what his plan was.
21:05He wanted Kenneth out of the picture so he could be that white knight to save Tanya.
21:13In March of 2022, just 10 months before Kenny's murder, Milner followed Kenny from Oregon City all the way to
21:23Hillsboro, a 45-minute drive.
21:27Kenny spotted him and called the police.
21:30And Milner was pulled over as body cameras captured the interaction.
21:35Hi, I'm Sir Edwards.
21:36Those were police.
21:37Do you know why we're stopping you today?
21:39Yeah, I'm trying to get a hold of this guy.
21:41I'm following him.
21:43The responding officer learned from dispatch that there was history between the two men.
21:48What's your role in the whole thing?
21:50She's been a friend of mine for 20 years.
21:52Milner told police he believed Tanya was in danger because she had allegedly told him Kenny was abusive.
22:00I'm the only person who gives a s**t and I'm not allowed to give a s**t.
22:04So, here's my advice to you, okay?
22:07This is very, very strong advice.
22:10Leave them alone.
22:12He wants nothing to do with you.
22:13She wants nothing to do with you.
22:15If you show up at their house, if you contact them, anything like that, you're going to go to jail.
22:20Go, thank you.
22:21After that traffic stop, Kenny filed for a new order for protection.
22:26The original one had expired years earlier.
22:29Kenny was absolutely in fear of his life.
22:34And two weeks later, he was so stressed out, he told police he crashed his car.
22:41My wife and I have been fighting today.
22:43Sorry?
22:43And, um, I thought she was at her boss's house where I've caught her cheating on me.
22:54Sorry?
22:55And I was driving over there and he's just, like, right down the road and I lost control of my
23:05car and just...
23:09Kenny's attorney says his client had every reason to be stressed out.
23:14Kenny told me that Milner said, hey, I'm a veterinarian, I've done surgeries and I have the tools to chop
23:19you up into little pieces.
23:20In August of 2022, after Kenny found another tracking device under his car, Milner was criminally charged and was awaiting
23:31trial.
23:31It was pretty clear to me that Milner was not in his right mind.
23:35Just a month later, Kenny filed a civil suit, seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for invasion of privacy and
23:43infliction of emotional distress,
23:45allegedly brought on by Milner's stalking, harassment, and trespass.
23:53Five months later, Kenny Fandrich was dead.
24:00Just days after the murder, detectives were convinced that Stephen Milner was that man behind the mask.
24:08But they needed more evidence.
24:10We need to get eyes on Stephen Milner because we know there was some sort of violent confrontation.
24:16We want to see if he had any injuries.
24:19Not wanting to tip him off, investigators asked him to come in for a check-in about the stalking case.
24:26We arranged a meeting for Stephen to come in to sign some paperwork.
24:29Detective Winner was inside at a reception desk.
24:32And your goal, sitting there at the receptionist desk, sort of isn't undercover, right?
24:37I wanted to see if he had any injury to himself.
24:40He walks in, he looks extremely nervous.
24:44Another person in the office noticed something.
24:47She says, hey, he's got makeup on his face.
24:51Makeup, investigators say, Milner used to cover up a scratch on his nose.
24:57Bingo, you're thinking, we got our guy?
24:59I, I, yep, at that point, I thought, this is him, this is our guy that, that did this.
25:06Moments later, after Milner walked out the door.
25:09Hi, sir, I'm Debbie Davis, the sheriff's office.
25:11We're being recorded by my camera, so everything's going to be audio and visual recorded.
25:14Do you understand that?
25:14Yes.
25:15Okay, sounds good.
25:16Right now, you're being detained.
25:18On January 31st, 2023, four days after Kenny Fandrich was found dead, Stephen Milner was taken into custody.
25:30And within days, charged with second-degree murder and stalking.
25:37With Milner in custody, Detectives Rigo and Winter were quickly able to connect one important clue from those surveillance camera
25:46images.
25:47That unusual crease.
25:49That unusual crease in the masked man's forehead.
25:51There's that very prominent forehead crease that I don't, he couldn't hide if he tried.
25:58There's no amount of makeup hiding that crease.
26:01No.
26:03Do you feel at this point, you've got, like, a pretty solid case?
26:07We had a lot of circumstantial pieces, like, putting the puzzle together.
26:12But we were just at the tip of the iceberg of what we still need to find out.
26:16More puzzle pieces would be found in Milner's house.
26:36It was shocking that somebody this successful, a doctor, now suspect in a murder.
26:46With Dr. Stephen Milner now in police custody, Hillsborough Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo set out to find evidence
26:56that could prove Milner was at the scene when Kenny Fandrich was murdered.
27:03As soon as he's arrested, we're getting search warrants for his DNA to be taken.
27:08We're getting search warrants for his house as well.
27:11And detectives weren't quite prepared for what they found at his home.
27:17We found a cardboard cutout behind a mirror of Stephen Milner's face placed on a very oiled, masculine man with
27:27a dog paw tattoo over his heart.
27:32Very odd memorabilia to have in your bedroom.
27:36Yes.
27:36I would say so.
27:37And there was more.
27:38In the nightstand in Stephen's master bedroom is a bunch of items that we kind of refer to as a
27:47shrine to Tanya.
27:48There was a framed picture of Tanya.
27:52There were love notes.
27:55There were women's underwear.
27:57There were just, like, very, like, personal keepsakes from their relationship together.
28:03That's more than just collecting a few love notes and cards.
28:06Especially from someone who hadn't been in a relationship with you for several years at this time period.
28:13To build their case, investigators needed to connect the maroon-colored minivan, seen in the Intel parking garage, parked next
28:21to Kenny's car, to Milner.
28:24But as far as investigators could determine...
28:26Right now, you're being detained.
28:28Milner usually drove the white Toyota SUV he'd been in when he was arrested.
28:35Initially, we didn't know what evidence this car could provide us.
28:40So they ordered an FBI forensic analysis of the SUV's computer, hoping it might provide some clues about Milner's movements
28:49before and after Kenny's murder.
28:54So essentially, the computer that's in the car retains a lot of information.
28:59And luckily, one of those things is, like, GPS data points.
29:04Where was that bit of information?
29:06Is that a computer that's pulled out on top there?
29:09Yeah, so that's part of the front dash.
29:11And then it was just a little motherboard-type thing that had a chip in it.
29:14Within weeks, they got a call from their digital expert.
29:18She said, you guys need to look at the Home Depot in Oregon City.
29:20He's there a lot the day of the murder.
29:23Home Depot, just 15 minutes down the road from Milner's house.
29:28How central did this place become towards a piecing together of the evidence that you had?
29:33Like, this was essentially, like, center stage of the investigation.
29:38The detectives asked Home Depot security personnel if there had been suspicious activity in the lot recently.
29:45Amazingly, they said yes.
29:48Two cars, a maroon minivan and a blue sedan, had been flagged for parking there for long periods of time,
29:56with only temporary paper license plates.
30:01And we learned that there had been a lot of calls created in the past couple months
30:06with a suspicious blue car and a maroon minivan.
30:10For the second time in a matter of weeks,
30:14parking lot security cameras and the images they recorded
30:17would provide investigators with key clues.
30:21In this clip from January 27th, 2023, the day of Kenny's murder,
30:28detectives say you can see Milner's white SUV pull up and park.
30:34Within minutes, the driver, believed to be Stephen Milner,
30:38gets into the maroon minivan.
30:40Another camera then captured the minivan exiting the parking lot.
30:47So what was he doing with the cars?
30:49Essentially, this was, like, his staging location.
30:51So he would drive his personal car here
30:54and then either pick up the blue sedan or the maroon minivan
30:57and then drive that out to Hillsborough.
30:59What do you call them?
31:01Like, burner cars.
31:02Burner cars.
31:03Yes.
31:03We have everybody kind of is more familiar with, like, a burner phone,
31:06where you have a phone that's not traced to you,
31:08but, you know, you can use it for what you need, get rid of it.
31:11Essentially, he did the same thing, but with a car.
31:14Investigators believed Milner may have been using those burner cars
31:18to secretly follow Kenny to work,
31:21even after law enforcement had told him to stop.
31:25You're very close to going to jail today for stalking, okay?
31:28Like, very, very close.
31:29They also learned Home Depot's security cameras
31:32had images of the driver of those cars shopping in the store
31:37about a month before Kenny was murdered.
31:41He parked right in front of Home Depot.
31:43He went in, and then we saw him come to the self-checkout area,
31:46and he had bought a pair of, like, safety glasses.
31:52Was his face visible in that surveillance?
31:55It was.
31:56Oh, yeah, yeah.
31:56There was no doubt it was Stephen Milner.
31:59And those glasses he bought,
32:02detectives say you can see them in his right hand
32:05as he exited the store.
32:07The receipt said they had a red mirror tint.
32:11Detective Winter had an idea.
32:13We just happened to be sitting near one of the aisles,
32:16and I was like, I'm going to go see where they sell the glasses.
32:19And then a couple boxes down was a yellow hard hat
32:23that looked very similar to the one that he was wearing
32:28in all of the Intel garage surveillance.
32:31The detectives were convinced
32:33this was where Milner had gotten his disguise to kill Kenny.
32:39You have all of this,
32:40but you were missing one big piece of evidence.
32:43What was it?
32:44We were, at this point, still missing a maroon minivan.
32:48Why is the minivan so important?
32:50Because it's the minivan that we believe
32:53was really our main crime scene.
32:57We thought there was going to be forensic evidence
32:59in that minivan,
33:00so we really wanted to get that minivan
33:02to help really put the icing on this case.
33:07Detective Rego was laser-focused
33:09on tracking down that maroon minivan,
33:12and he got an incredibly lucky break
33:15when those suspicious burner cars had been flagged.
33:19The VIN number was also recorded.
33:22Rego searched it and found out that van
33:25had been found abandoned just a few days after the murder.
33:30The highway people had towed it off the side
33:34of the I-5 in North Portland.
33:37It had been dumped.
33:38It had been dumped there.
33:39So I called the tow company,
33:40hey, do you have this car?
33:42No, sorry.
33:43We sold it to a scrap metal company.
33:47Detective Rego knew the clock was ticking
33:49to retrieve what he believed was the crime scene
33:53and all of the key evidence it held.
33:56So me and another detective
33:57drive as quick as we can to North Portland.
34:01But they were too late.
34:02When he asked about the minivan,
34:05the scrapyard showed Rego this video.
34:09This is that maroon minivan
34:11police believe Milner drove to the Intel garage
34:14to kill Kenny just moments
34:18before it was pulverized
34:19by the metal jaws of the scrapyard claw.
34:23I was able to watch
34:25one of my key pieces of evidence
34:28be crushed and taken away.
34:31Before your very eyes.
34:32Before my very eyes.
34:33Exactly a week too late.
34:51On January 13th, 2025,
34:54Stephen Milner went on trial,
34:56charged with stalking
34:57and murdering Kenny Fandridge.
35:02Washington County prosecutors
35:04John Gerhardt and Mahaly Streblow
35:06knew they faced a challenge
35:08without that maroon minivan
35:10where they believe Stephen Milner
35:12murdered Kenny.
35:18All the evidence that was inside the van
35:20was lost with it.
35:23The biggest disappointment for us
35:26is there was likely a lot of forensic evidence.
35:31But prosecutors had some forensic evidence
35:34they say put Stephen Milner at the scene.
35:38DNA from swabs taken of Kenny Fandridge's hands.
35:42I remember getting an email of the results
35:45and immediately opening it
35:47and being like,
35:49oh my gosh, this is it.
35:51Stephen Milner's DNA
35:52was on Kenneth Fandridge's hands.
35:55Now you really felt like you had your case made.
35:58Yes, because there's no way
35:59he could explain away
36:01why his DNA would have been on Kenneth's body.
36:04Stephen Milner would have an explanation for that.
36:07To everyone's surprise, Milner took the stand.
36:13Admitting he did spray paint the cameras
36:16and was in the Intel garage waiting for Kenny,
36:20he presented what detectives believed
36:22was a far-fetched explanation.
36:25He was trying to save Tanya.
36:27There were no cameras in court,
36:29but there is audio of Milner
36:31telling prosecutor John Gerhardt
36:33why he was in the Intel lot that day.
36:36I was trying to get him arrested
36:37for driving while he was drunk,
36:40or driving without a license.
36:43Why was it your responsibility
36:45to enforce working traffic laws?
36:49I was trying to keep Tanya from getting killed.
36:53He had this delusional belief
36:55that he needed to protect Tanya Fandridge.
36:58The defense case,
37:00it seemed to be to kind of get the jury
37:03to maybe feel sympathetic to Milner.
37:06And Milner insisted it was Kenny who attacked him
37:10after Kenny spotted Stephen Milner
37:13inside the maroon minivan.
37:16Stephen essentially said,
37:17well, I knew I was caught,
37:18so I opened the door to kind of confront him,
37:20and then Kenneth attacked me.
37:23We basically fought for a little bit.
37:26There was pushing and shoving.
37:29Eventually, I was able to kind of push him up
37:31against the car and then shoved him into the car.
37:38Prosecutor John Gerhardt challenged
37:40Milner's self-defense story.
37:43It's that push that causes him to fall into a scene.
37:49He hit up against the car
37:51and then kind of tripped at the same time,
37:53and I kept pushing.
37:55His testimony just didn't line up
37:57with the physical evidence at the scene.
37:59To my knowledge,
38:01bumping your head on the corridor
38:02is not going to break your neck.
38:06After six hours of deliberations,
38:07the jury found Stephen Milner guilty
38:11of murdering Kenny Fandridge
38:14and multiple stalking charges.
38:19Are the parties prepared for sentencing?
38:22Yes, sir.
38:22Cameras were allowed
38:23for Stephen Milner's sentencing hearing,
38:26which took place on February 18, 2025.
38:30Sir, can you stand up and count?
38:33Thank you for sentencing.
38:34Tanya, who asked not to be shown on camera,
38:38gave a powerful statement
38:39directed at Stephen Milner.
38:42Prosecutor Mahaley Strieblow
38:44read us her words.
38:48All you had to do was stop.
38:51Hear me clearly when I say
38:54you are a vengeful, deceptive,
38:56manipulating, self-serving,
38:59aggressive, hateful, lying predator.
39:02And all you had to do was stop.
39:06Stephen Milner was sentenced
39:08to life in prison
39:09with the possibility of parole
39:12after 25 years.
39:15Milner did not respond
39:16to our request for an interview.
39:20This case highlights
39:22the very worst case scenario.
39:25Take stalking seriously.
39:28Kenny's attorney, Michael Fuller,
39:30says what happened
39:31highlights the limits of the system
39:34that is supposed to protect
39:35victims of stalking.
39:38Kenny called the police
39:39and that didn't work.
39:40He got a lawyer.
39:41Kenny did everything he could
39:42under the legal system
39:43and it didn't help him at all.
39:46After Kenny's death,
39:48Fuller filed a wrongful death suit
39:49on behalf of Kenny's estate,
39:52asking for damages
39:53of several million dollars.
39:56Fuller believes Milner
39:57made millions
39:58from real estate investments
39:59and the sale of his business.
40:02In the wrongful death case,
40:03my goals are to extract
40:04as much money as we can
40:05out of Milner.
40:07If the estate recovered
40:08any money for Kenny,
40:09it would go to his wife.
40:13For Milner's
40:14former veterinary clients,
40:16Cheryl and Darlene,
40:17it was hard to reconcile
40:19the doctor they knew
40:20with a now convicted murderer.
40:23I could not believe
40:25that it was the same guy.
40:27I just believe that he
40:29ended up going through
40:31some type of psychosis
40:33and I think that
40:35at some point he snapped.
40:38I think it really gets down to,
40:40like, you never know
40:42what anybody is capable of.
40:44You never know
40:45what monster might be inside.
40:48Almost a Dr. Jekyll
40:50and Mr. Hyde situation.
40:52Absolutely.
40:53Yeah.
40:54He had everything to live for.
40:56You know, he could do
40:57anything he wanted to do.
41:01And this is where it ended up.
41:03It's real sad.
41:19He had everything to live for.
41:19He had everything to live for.
41:19He had everything to live for.
41:19He had everything to live for.
41:20He had everything to live for.
41:20He had everything to live for.
41:20He had everything to live for.
41:20He had everything to live for.
41:21He had everything to live for.
41:21He had everything to live for.
41:22He had everything to live for.
41:22He had everything to live for.
41:24He had everything to live for.
41:24He had everything to live for.
41:28He had everything to live for.
41:29He had everything to live for.
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