Oregon

Killer Dads: Fathers who ended their children's lives in situations involving child custody, visitation, and/or child support

OREGON

Clackamas County

Father: DONALD L. COCKRELL
Victim(s): Alexis Pounder (3 years)
Date of Death: January 2010
Father, mother had shared custody. Father, girlfriend charged with beating, starving girl to death. Mother allegedly blocked from seeing child by father. Father convicted of murder by abuse in August 2013.

Lane County

Father: RICHARD RAUCHER
Victim(s): Erin Raucher, Aidan Raucher (no ages given)
Date of Death: September 2010
“Despondent” stay-at-home dad granted “joint custody” in divorce. Kills daughters in murder-suicide, though mother had offered to pay father child support.

Mutnomah County

Father: CHRISTOPHER ROSILLO
Victim(s): Oleander Labier (5 years)
Date of Death: April 2010
Custodial father, fiancée charged in girl's death. In early 2011, father pleaded guilty to murder by abuse and is serving a life sentence.

Yamhil County

Father: RANDALL ENGELS
Victim(s): Two children, their mother Amy Engels
Date of Death: July 2012
Despite father's history of domestic violence, Judge Cal Tichenor denied mother's request for emergency sole custody of the children in May 2012. Father killed entire family in murder-suicide.