"A woman riding her bike down a path in Ashland, Oregon (Saturday, November 19th, around 4:30 PM, just at sunset) comes upon another man who has discovered another young man, apparently passed out, but this turns out not to be the case. The young man, 23-year-old David Michael Grubbs, was dead, his head nearly decapitated by an instrument with a most long blade, maybe a sword or a machete. The woman, the second person to arrive on the crime scene, is the one who calls 911.
One other thing; she sees a man moving away from this vicinity, but doesn`t see him clearly enough to make a positive identification."
http://thesop.org/story/20111126/is...stival-and-david-grubbs-grotesque-murder.html
"Police have little to go on. No one has come forward to say they witnessed the slaying. No weapon has been found. The 911 call came from a woman riding her bike down the path, who was stopped by a man who found Grubbs lying in the bike path. They initially thought Grubbs was passed out, but on looking closer saw the deep wounds around his head and neck, said Police Chief Terry Holderness. Investigators don't think either of them had anything to do with the slaying. The woman saw a man leaving the area, but didn't get a good look at him. Police have not found him."
http://hosted2.ap.org/ALDEC/TDNational/Article_2011-11-25-Shakespeare%20Town%20Murder/id-d16e66dadc0e4c19aa805303c5b258c1
Did she see the killer?
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“This has been a pretty safe town where we don't have to lock our doors and the crime rate is really low,” said Ashland resident Erik Wallaback. “And now we have this. It shakes things pretty badly.”
http://www.ktvl.com/articles/ashland-1202732-shakes-homicide.html
"The attack did not stop joggers and bikers from using the path. David Steinfeld, a forest restoration specialist with the U.S. Forest Service, stopped to look at the shrine while jogging with his two sons: Joel, who works in public relations in Portland, and Logan, an industrial designer in San Francisco."
"David Steinfeld said he was making a point of not locking his doors at home, not wanting this apparently random attack to take away the feeling of safety that he loves about Ashland."
http://hosted2.ap.org/ALDEC/TDNatio...wn Murder/id-d16e66dadc0e4c19aa805303c5b258c1
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