Inside the 追跡（する） for a serial kidnapper, and a 血まみれの finale
SALEM, 鉱石. (AP) - Police in 田舎の 南西 Oregon were on high 警報: A man with a history of kidnapping and 拷問ing women in two 明言する／公表するs was on the run in their 領土.
When a tip （機の）カム in from a cab company that had given him a ride, they went house-to-house to check on 居住（者）s. Peering through a window of one home, they 設立する a gruesome scene: the 団体／死体s of two men who had been beaten to death.
The 発見 Tuesday 近づく 認めるs Pass, Oregon, was a 血まみれの link in a chain of 劇の events that ended hours later with the 自殺 of the 手配中の，お尋ね者 man, 36-year-old bartender Benjamin Obadiah Foster. The finale, played out on a 普通は 静かな 居住の street in 認めるs Pass, 示すd an end to the largest manhunt in the 明言する／公表する in 最近の memory and brought 救済 to terrified 居住（者）s in the 地域 of forested mountains.
当局 in 認めるs Pass say 非，不，無 of this would have happened if 当局 in Nevada hadn't been so quick just over a year ago to 解放（する） Foster from 刑務所，拘置所, where he was serving time for 持つ／拘留するing his then-girlfriend in Las Vegas 捕虜 for two weeks and 拷問ing her. And a 認めるs Pass woman would not now be in a hospital, comatose and in 批判的な 条件, they say.
It's "極端に troubling," 認めるs Pass Police 長，指導者 過密な住居 Hensman said.
In the 2019 出来事/事件 in Las Vegas, Foster broke seven of his girlfriend's ribs, gave her two 黒人／ボイコット 注目する，もくろむs, choked her to the point of unconsciousness and 軍隊d her to eat lye before she managed to escape, 当局 said. Foster already had a 一時停止するd 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 on a 隠すd-武器s 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 and was を待つing 裁判，公判 in another 国内の 暴力／激しさ 事例／患者.
Oregon 明言する／公表する Police, Capt. Kyle Kennedy, 権利, speaks to reporters during a news 会議／協議会 at 認めるs Pass police （警察，軍隊などの）本部 on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in 認めるs Pass, 鉱石. Kennedy, and 認めるs Pass Police 長，指導者 過密な住居 Hensman, left, recounted the 一連の events in 最近の days that led to an 武装した 引き分け with a 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う in a violent kidnapping in Oregon who died after 狙撃 himself, 当局 said. Police now believe he also 殺人d two people in Sunny Valley, 鉱石. (Scott Stoddard/認めるs Pass Daily 特使 経由で AP)
In a 嘆願 を取り引きする 検察官，検事s, Foster was 宣告，判決d to one to 2 1/2 years. He was 始める，決める 解放する／自由な on Oct. 21, 2021, the same day he was transferred to a Nevada 明言する／公表する 刑務所，拘置所 because he had already served 729 days in 刑務所，拘置所 for the 罪，犯罪s before he was 宣告，判決d, によれば a Nevada 是正s 公式の／役人.
Fifteen months later, Foster was living in Oregon and in a 関係 with the 認めるs Pass woman. On Jan. 24, her friend grew 関心d because she hadn't been seen for several days. The friend went to the woman's house, where she was 設立する bound and beaten to unconsciousness.
The 事例／患者 動揺させるd the town of 40,000, which has seen high 失業 and poverty 率s and public safety layoffs with the 拒絶する／低下する of the 木材／素質 産業. 法律 施行 当局 said they were bringing all their 資源s to 耐える to find Foster.
On Jan. 26, police, 郡保安官´s 副s, an Oregon 明言する／公表する Police SWAT team and 連邦の スパイ／執行官s carried out a （警察の）手入れ，急襲 in Wolf Creek, about 20 miles (30 キロメーターs) north of 認めるs Pass, after receiving word Foster was there. スパイ／執行官s 掴むd his car, but Foster had 消えるd.
The next day, police 発表するd that Foster was using dating apps to find people who could help him 避ける the police or find new 犠牲者s. 当局 申し込む／申し出d a $2,500 reward for Foster and 始める，決める up a tip line.
Then, a major break in the 事例／患者. One of the tips （機の）カム from a cab company 説 a man had requested a taxi from Sunny Valley, just south of Wolf Creek, Hensman said Wednesday.
Police went around checking homes Tuesday in Sunny Valley, to 確実にする 居住（者）s hadn't been 害（を与える）d. But in one house, they foun d the 団体／死体s of Richard 物陰／風下 Barron Jr. and Donald Owen Griffith, who were killed いつか between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, によれば Oregon 明言する／公表する Police Capt. Kyle Kennedy.
"It´s a 残虐な scene, unfortunately, that we´re 過程ing," Kennedy said Wednesday, 追加するing that police 堅固に believe Foster had killed the men, who lived together. Barron, age 73, and Griffith, who was 64, 明らかに didn't know Foster.
Several items were taken from the house, 含むing the men's dog. On Tuesday, Foster was spotted in 認めるs Pass - with the dog. Police 急ぐd to the 近隣, the same one where Foster's girlfriend had been 設立する.
The officers, carrying ライフル銃／探して盗むs and using an 装甲の 職員／兵員 運送／保菌者, 集まりd outside the house. Area 居住（者）s were told to 避難所 in place.
"While we´re （軍隊を）展開する，配備するing teams to 安全な・保証する the 住居, we also have to take into account what this man just did: He 残酷に 殺人d two innocents in Sunny Valley, and we didn´t know when he was going to stop," Hensman said.
Police searched the house, but didn't find anyone. Then they sent a 郡保安官´s department robot to a crawlspace and 設立する 調印するs that Foster was burrowed 深い underneath the home. His presence was 確認するd by a camera. The 逃亡者／はかないもの had water and other 供給（する）s stashed there, 明らかに in hopes he could wait out the police presence undetected.
The officers 推定する／予想するd a gunfight. Instead, Foster 発射 himself in the 長，率いる, Hensman said. Police 設立する Foster still breathing, unconscious and 持つ／拘留するing a .45-caliber ピストル. Officers had to 削減（する） into the floorboards to 抽出する him.
Foster was taken to a hospital, where he died Tuesday night.
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Associated 圧力（をかける） writers Rio Yamat in Las Vegas and Martha Bellisle in Seattle cont ributed to this 報告（する）／憶測.
認めるs Pass Police 長，指導者 過密な住居 Hensman speaks to reporters during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 at 認めるs Pass police （警察，軍隊などの）本部 on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in 認めるs Pass, 鉱石. Hensman recounted the 一連の events in 最近の days that led to an 武装した 引き分け with a 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う in a violent kidnapping in Oregon who died after 狙撃 himself, 当局 said. (Scott Stoddard/認めるs Pass Daily 特使 経由で AP)
警官s 目的（とする） their 武器s at a home during a 引き分け in 認めるs Pass, 鉱石., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Police said the 引き分け 伴う／関わるing a man 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd in a violent kidnapping in Oregon who was バリケードd underneath the home has been "解決するd." (Scott Stoddard/認めるs Pass Daily 特使 経由で AP)
