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Gotta Start Somewhere I deep dive into criminal cases, disappearances, and mysteries from the West Coast.

06/10/2026

In 1974, the Cowden family vanished from their campsite in Southern Oregon. Their belongings were still there, their vehicle was still there, and there was no obvious sign of what had happened.

Then, the next morning, their basset hound puppy, Droopy, showed up alone at the nearby Copper Store.

The disappearance triggered one of the largest searches in Oregon history and remains one of the state’s most haunting unsolved cases. final final.txt

I recently released a full documentary on the Cowden family murders featuring former lead detective Richard Davis, original research, and new details surrounding longtime suspect Dwaine Lee Little.

🎥 Full documentary: https://youtu.be/ChiriQvj2xw

03/10/2026

The Craziest Family in True Crime

02/10/2026

Former Homicide Detective Richard Davis talks about how the murders he couldn’t solve keep him up at night.

30/09/2026

Former OSP Homicide Detective Richard Davis tells me about how two good prospectors discovered the remains of Richard Cowden and how Davis arrived on scene to find the rest of the family stuffed in a cave.

29/09/2026

I wanted to find out why the Cowden Family Murder remains unsolved to this day. My journey led me to talk to Richard Davis, the former lead detective on the case and the man who knows it best.

Not only did he tell me things I had never heard before, but he gave me a slew of other murder cases that can be tied to the main suspect, and let’s just say this story gets crazy, and I think the world needs to know.

Dwaine Lee Little had quite the childhood, and not in a good way. In addition to receiving a severe brain injury at a yo...
28/09/2026

Dwaine Lee Little had quite the childhood, and not in a good way. In addition to receiving a severe brain injury at a young age, Dwaine’s family would be at the center of a number of local scandals. Whether that was how Dwaine started wearing the clothes of a local missing boy, how Dwaine’s mom tricked a foster kid into shooting his dad, or how this schizophrenic dad murdered his own brother before breaking out of a mental asylum.

The insanity culminated with Dwaine becoming the youngest person ever sent to the Oregon State Penitentiary after he brutally r***d and murdered 15-year-old Orla Fay Fipps as she rode her horse alone through an apple orchard. Dwaine was diagnosed as a sexual sadist, or someone who derives sexual pleasure from inflicting violence and humiliation upon unsuspecting people.

Little would be sentenced to life, but would only serve 10 years before he was paroled on May 24th, 1974, at the age of 26. His parents would pick him up from prison on their way north from their home in Southern Oregon for a family reunion near Littlerock, WA. Dwaine hung out with family for a few days before he asked to borrow the keys to the family truck on May 27th.

That was the last day 14-year-old Brenda Joy Baker was seen alive.

Brenda's body was found less than a month later, 6 miles from the Little Family Reunion in the Millersylvania State Park. Brenda’s case remains unsolved, and Dwaine has never been publicly named as a suspect until now.

After the reunion, Dwaine moved in with his parents in Southern Oregon. Four months later, the Cowden family was abducted while camping. The family was found seven months later, murdered. The father was tied to a tree up a steep hillside, while his wife and children were found stuffed in a cave. The case remains unsolved, with Dwaine being the main suspect.

Dwaine would return to prison after being caught with a gun; he made it less than 8 months before violating parole.

Dwaine would be paroled again in 1977. Within a year, he can be tied to four more unsolved murders. Murders that, like the Brenda Baker case, he has never been publicly named in until now.

This isn’t an internet sleuth making these connections; I got these cases from an interview with the former lead detective on the Cowden Family Murder case. A man who spent much of his professional life trying to solve one of the most disturbing unsolved crimes in history.

If you want to hear details about the Cowden Family Murders you have never heard before, Dwaine’s insane upbringing, or how we can tie him to a rash of unsolved murders of campers throughout Oregon. I HIGHLY recommend checking out the hour-long deep-dive I made.

This is without a doubt the most thorough telling of the Cowden Family Murders. I interviewed the former lead detective, filmed on location (including the cave), and used newspapers and documents from the time to tell the full story.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/ChiriQvj2xw

In this deep dive, we cover the infamous Cowden Family Murders in a way I guarantee you haven't heard before. I talk to ...
27/09/2026

In this deep dive, we cover the infamous Cowden Family Murders in a way I guarantee you haven't heard before. I talk to Richard Davis, a former lead detective on the case, and he gives us fresh insight into Oregon's most disturbing unsolved crime. Beyond the facts of the case, Richard Davis gave me several other murder cases from the 1970s that Dwaine was suspected in, and let's just say the rabbit hole goes deep. So, so deep.

We already knew the Pacific Northwest had its fair share of serial killers, especially throughout the 1960s -1980s. Well, I think it's time we add another to the list.

In this documentary, I will cover the facts of the cases and how Dwaine Lee Little can be tied to them. I also go into Dwaine's insane upbringing, his severe brain injury, and how Dwaine was only 7 or 8 years old when he first started getting tied to missing people. This story is as wild as they get. Welcome to Uncovering a Serial Killer: The Saga of 'Little Doc'.

On July 26th, 2016, a notary heads out to a rural property in Jackson County, Oregon, to help a family through a tense l...
23/09/2026

On July 26th, 2016, a notary heads out to a rural property in Jackson County, Oregon, to help a family through a tense legal dispute. But little did she know that this dispute was about to turn deadly, and she’d be right in the middle of it.

After the dust settles, there’s a dead body in the front yard, and the Jackson County Sheriff is tasked with piecing together exactly what happened.

But they wouldn’t have to piece too much together, because the shooter, Tucker Reed, filmed the whole thing for them.

Tucker, an aspiring actress, had just moved back in with her mom, Kelly Moore. This is who Tucker said she was protecting when she ran up and killed her uncle, Shane Moore.

Kelly and Shane had been fighting for years over their parents' estate and who would get what when it came to inheritance. The fight centered on the family ranch, which was supposed to be split 50/50 between the siblings when their Mother, Lore, passed away.

But Kelly needed money fast, so she had her Mom borrow against the ranch to give her the cash. Shane found out and felt Kelly was stealing his money. So, he arranged for a notary to head out so his Mom could sign a "Grant Deed", immediately giving him part of the ranch before she died, and that's when it all goes down.

Kelly moves to stop the notary and the grant deed, which causes Shane to walk toward the house to see what was going on before Tucker stepped in and shot him to death.

Tucker claimed that she was acting in self-defense against a man she had a restraining order against. But the video would show something else.

To be honest, you can't get the full story unless you watch the video Tucker recorded, along with the insane interrogation footage and some of the wild movie Tucker made, where she plays a murderer who uses a false claim of self-defense to get away with it.

Oh, yeah, Tucker continued acting and landed her biggest role while awaiting trial. This case is quite the story.

If you're curious, I created a Deep Dive on YouTube with the incident video, the 911 call, evidence photos, interrogations, and more. Link to Documentary: https://youtu.be/CQ6A9nEFxKw

Just when you thought Oregon had seen it all... another dark chapter unfolds.His name is Jesse Lee Calhoun, and yesterda...
17/09/2026

Just when you thought Oregon had seen it all... another dark chapter unfolds.

His name is Jesse Lee Calhoun, and yesterday he was accused of killing the sixth woman in the past few years. At this point, they're tying a new victim to him every couple of months—it’s a horrifying pattern that demands our attention.

Law enforcement agencies are actively investigating to see how far this rabbit hole of tragic events goes and whether further crimes can be tied to Calhoun.

While the murders appear to have occurred in rapid succession, the life of crime was something Calhoun was very used to. Calhoun got his first assault charge in 2003 and pretty much stayed in the arrest logs until 2019, when he was sentenced to four years in prison after resisting and choking out a police K9.

He spent only a few years incarcerated, as then-Governor Kate Brown pardoned him in 2021 as a thank-you for his service on a wildfire in 2020.

Not long after, young women started disappearing.

If you're curious how police first came to suspect Jesse Lee Calhoun and how we got to this point, I recently made a YouTube Deep Dive covering this case: https://youtu.be/HCXC98Ib2Vc

It's Thursday, October 11th, 1923, and the Southern Pacific Railroad Train No. 13 is slowly ascending the Siskiyou Mount...
15/09/2026

It's Thursday, October 11th, 1923, and the Southern Pacific Railroad Train No. 13 is slowly ascending the Siskiyou Mountains south of Ashland, Oregon, en route to San Francisco from Portland. The train reaches the top of Siskiyou Pass, and as it enters the 3,100-foot+ "Tunnel 13", the train has a couple of unwanted guests hop aboard.

Ray, Roy, and Hugh Deautremont were three brothers tired of pinching pennies in logging camps, and they'd read one too many books about Jesse James. This was their moment to make it rich, or so they thought.

After getting the train engineer, Sidney Lloyd Bates, to stop the train inside the tunnel, Ray and Hugh made their way to the train's mail coach, which they expected to be full of valuables. The problem was that the postal clerk, Elvyn Dougherty, saw the robbers coming and locked himself inside the mail car with the valuables. These mail cars were the historic equivalent of a "Brink's Truck", meaning no one could get inside them easily if they were locked.

But the Deautremont Brothers had a feeling this would happen, so they brought a bunch of dynamite for the job. The problem was that none of them had experience with dynamite and didn't know how much they needed to use. So they figured it'd be better to be safe than sorry and use it all; they didn't have time to measure it out.

The brothers blew the entire mail coach to bits, with Elvyn Dougherty inside. Anything of value was instantly gone, and they couldn't see anything through the steam, smoke, and utter destruction.

Panicked, the brothers decided to cut their losses and escape with absolutely nothing of value, but not before they murdered every witness, including Engineer Sidney Lloyd Bates, Fireman Marvin Seng, and Brakeman Coyl Johnson, who stumbled across the brothers as he was investigating the sound of the explosion.

The train hold-up would go down as the deadliest in history.

Years would pass without the De'Autremont Brothers ever facing justice. In fact, the case was cracked by Edward Heinrich, a man who was known as "America's Sherlock Holmes." A man who opened the first private crime lab in the USA and invented a lot of the forensic techniques still used today.

If you want the full story, I created a YouTube Deep Dive where I filmed at Tunnel 13, then added documents and pictures from the time to tell the story in what I believe is the most engaging video available on the topic. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/61IK-dV7OjE

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