Man Accused In Wilberger Case

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[glow=red,2,300]Joel Patrick Courtney[/glow]
Oregon police served a murder warrant Tuesday August 2, 2005, on a New Mexico prisoner in the disappearance and suspected murder of college student, Brooke Wilberger, who vanished from a Corvallis, Oregon apartment complex in May 2004. Oregon officials have charged Joel Patrick Courtney with the murder of 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger, although cops say that Brooke has still not been found.

Courtney, who is jailed in a New Mexico detention center on kidnapping and sexual assault charges, has a long criminal history. He has lived in Alaska, New Mexico, Florida, and Oregon, where he served three months in jail after he was convicted of sexual abuse and escaping from authorities.

[glow=red,2,300]Eerie Sequence Of Events[/glow]
Brooke Wilberger vanished on May 24, 2004, while cleaning outdoor lamps at the apartment complex her brother-in-law managed. Cops say on the day of her disappearance, Courtney was scheduled to be arrainged in Lincoln County Circuit Court for driving under the influence. According to court records, Courtney left a phone message saying he was in Corvallis and on his way to Newport for his appearance. But, cops say he never made it.

Now, Oregon authorities have connected thirty-nine-year-old Joel Patrick Courtney to the disappearance of Oregon student, Brooke Wilberger.

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Joel Patrick Courtney
Added 08/04/2005 - This smug looking creep is one Joel Patrick Courtney, seen here in a mug shot taken by Albuquerque (NM) PD after they busted him on charges of raping and sodomizing a 19-year-old college student at knifepoint. This loser also had a rape conviction stemming back to 1985 - he served a couple of year in the Big House for that one. Remember the woman in Corvallis, Oregon that disappeared in May of 2004 - Brooke Wilberger?

She'd gone to visit her sister and was outside the apartment complex cleaning light fixtures when she disappeared - all cops could find was a pair of flip-flops and a bucket of soapy water? Well, her body has never been found (at least, not yet) but a grand jury has now indicted this creep in her murder. Cops won't tell all the evidence they have, but it was enough to convince a grand jury. Stay tuned.

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[glow=red,2,300]A Troubling Trail[/glow]
The man accused of raping and murdering college student Brooke Wilberger won't appear in an Oregon courtroom anytime soon, pending the outcome of a similar case in New Mexico. And yet two more serious cases -- another New Mexico case involving a domestic dispute and a 1984 Washington County sexual abuse case -- also trail Joel Patrick Courtney.

A key difference between the Wilberger and New Mexico abduction cases is that the young woman kidnapped and raped in November in Albuquerque managed to escape.

Dara Finks, a 43-year-old waitress, was driving her three daughters to their grandmother's house in Albuquerque on Nov. 30. They had stopped at a red light in what Finks described as a "low-income" part of town when a young blond woman, clothed only in a unzipped jacket and with underwear about her neck, came running down the road. It was between 7 and 8 p.m. -- dark out but lit by enough streetlights that they saw the woman run across the four-lane road and dart inside a Mexican restaurant.

Family stops to help

Finks, interviewed Wednesday by The Oregonian, said her eldest daughter, 17-year-old Ebony, told her to pull into the parking lot. Ebony jumped from the truck and met the naked woman coming out. No one inside had offered to help.

The young woman climbed into the truck, "hysterical and freaking out," Dara Finks said. The woman told the Finkses, and later Albuquerque police, that she'd been walking home from work about 6 p.m. when she was abducted at knifepoint by a man who had threatened to kill her unless she undressed and performed oral sex on him. The man tied her ankles together with a shoelace, tied her wrists with a scarf, stuffed her panties in her mouth and pinned them there by tying a shoelace around her head.

At one point, the man stepped outside the car. The woman wriggled her hands and ankles free and ran.

The Finkses would learn later that the woman was an international student taking classes at the University of New Mexico. But that night, they knew little about her except she spoke broken English in an accent that made them think she was German.

Dara Finks called police on her cell phone. Her daughters saw red knife marks on the woman's neck and were listening to her story when she said the man was outside the truck.

He had stopped in his car at the red light and appeared to know his victim was inside the truck, Dara Finks said. Although Finks said she never saw him, her daughters watched him drive through the intersection, turn around and drive by again.

Police arrived minutes later, Finks said. The woman told them the man had abducted her in a red Honda with two doors and tinted windows. According to police records, the woman led authorities to the parking lot where the man had taken her. Police found a shoelace at the scene. When they interviewed people who lived nearby, someone recognized the car and said the driver, a man named Joe, sometimes hung around there.

The police arrested Joel Patrick Courtney, and the woman identified him as her attacker.

Five months before Courtney was accused in the abduction, however, police were called to his home in an Albuquerque suburb. His 12-year-old son called 9-1-1 on June 18, 2004, to report his father shoving his mother.

The 12-year-old gave authorities his account of what happened:

"My dad pushed my mom and yelled at her saying that he was going to do something to her, and when he was done with her, he would do the same to her sisters. I didn't listen to the whole thing because my dad sent me to my room, and I called 9-1-1."

Joel Patrick Courtney was accused of battery against a household member, but the charge was later dismissed.

Washington County assault

In Washington County, Courtney was arrested for attempted rape and pleaded guilty in 1985 to first-degree sexual abuse.

In an interview with a Washington County sheriff's detective after the December 1984 attack, Courtney admitted that he beat and sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman he had known at Sunset High School in Beaverton.

He also was 18 and said he had been drinking beer and smoking marijuana and cocaine before the assault.

The woman told police that Courtney put his hand on her leg and started kissing her while she was driving him home from a friend's house about 2:15 a.m. She pushed him away and told him no.

When he wouldn't stop, the woman said she bit and scratched Courtney's face. At that, he punched her several times and yanked her outside her car, where he pulled off her jeans and underpants, dumped her onto the gravel and unzipped his pants. Courtney said he was out of control, but broke off the attack when the woman stopped fighting, and they left the area without having sex.

The woman called a rape hot line, but said she was discouraged because she was told a prosecution would be lengthy, according to police records. She said she went to police when she heard that Courtney had tried the same kind of thing before.

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[glow=red,2,300]Documents reveal suspect in Wilberger killing's life of crime[/glow]
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A 39-year-old man being held in a New Mexico jail has been charged with 19 counts of rape and murder in the Brooke Wilberger case.
Joel Patrick Courtney is currently being held in Albuquerque on kidnapping and rape charges in an unrelated incident involving a foreign exchange student at the University of New Mexico.

Lt. Ron Noble with the Corvallis Police Department confirmed that Courtney has also been charged with the murder of Brooke Wilberger, who disappeared last summer. Noble said they have not found her.

According to a record check ran by KATU News, Courtney has a criminal history in both Oregon and New Mexico that includes sexual abuse charges.

In 1985 at 19 years old, Courtney was placed on probation for a sex abuse case out of Washington County.

Other items on his record include felonies, misdemeanors and violations, but perhaps the most interesting bit of information is what happened after Courtney was arrested on a drunk driving charge in January of 2004.

Courtney was supposed to appear in court on May 24, 2004, the same day Brooke Wilberger disappeared, but he never showed up.

Court records show he called the Lincoln County Court to say he was in Corvallis on his way to Newport that day, but he never made his appointment.

Questions also remain about whether there is a connection between Courtney and a 1997 Dodge Caravan that Corvallis police seemed very interested in a few months back.

Police say they now know where the minivan in question is, although they are keeping quiet about the vehicle's location.

As for the incident involving a student at the University of New Mexico, the victim told police Courtney pulled a knife on her and demanded she get into a car. She said she was then tied up with a shoestring and sexually assaulted.

She was able to break free and run for help. Her ability to identify Courtney and get him locked up may have been just the alarm Corvallis police needed to look in his direction.

KATU News has also learned that Joel Courtney's family in Beaverton has been cooperating with investigators in the Wilberger case for several months.

Although she did not go on camera, Courtney's sister spoke with KATU News. She said Courtney had a troubled childhood and that her thoughts and prayers were with Brooke Wilberger's family.

Police in Corvallis are planning to hold a news conference at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, presumably to make an official announcement concerning Courtney and the latest details in the Wilberger case. Benton County's District Attorney and Wilberger's family members are expected to attend.

www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=78803

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