Post Mortem | Murder in a Parking Garage

**Anne-Marie Green** (0:10)
Welcome back to Post Mortem, I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green, and today we're discussing the mysterious death of Kenneth Fandrich. He was found murdered inside a parking garage on January 27th, 2023 in Hillsboro, Oregon.
When police reviewed the security footage from that garage, they noticed a masked man spray painting the cameras, wearing a disguise to obscure his identity. But incredibly, as we're going to discuss, they were still able to find the killer. So joining me now to discuss this is 48 Hours correspondent, Natalie Morales. It's a fascinating case. Thanks for joining us again, Natalie.

**Natalie Morales** (0:51)
Sure is fascinating. Good to be with you, Anne-Marie.

**Anne-Marie Green** (0:55)
As usual, a reminder to everyone, if you haven't already listened to this episode of 48 Hours, head on over to your podcast feed. You'll find it just below this one. Listen to the hour and then come on back for this conversation. All right, let's get into it. The victim here is Kenneth Fandrich. He also went by Kenny and investigators discovered his body in the driver seat of his car in a parking garage run by the tech company Intel.
The garage is located on this massive campus, very large campus of one of Intel's production facilities. This is where he's been working as a contract pipe fitter.
Natalie, you actually went to the garage and I just want to get a sense of just how big is the garage. What was it like there? How many cameras are we talking about? Was it like finding a needle in a haystack?

**Natalie Morales** (1:46)
This was actually almost the opposite of a needle in a haystack. When you think about it, I mean, this is a huge tech company, Intel. We're talking the maker of all those incredible super speedy chips that we all use on our computers. But this is an area, the garage especially, where there are loads of security cameras all the way inside the garage as well as on the campus.
It's an area that is well covered. There is a lot of security. So obviously, the garage of a tech company like Intel is a very interesting choice and place to commit a murder.

**Anne-Marie Green** (2:23)
Intel security staff told investigators that a month earlier, the security cameras had been spray painted. It was investigated as just sort of criminal mischief. But do you investigators think that maybe this was a dry run?
I'm also curious, I don't know if you know this or not, Natalie, was it the same security cameras or different ones? I imagine there's, you know, there are many, probably hundreds.

**Natalie Morales** (2:50)
Well, you know, it seems that Stephen Milner had been plotting this for a while, according to investigators. I mean, they do believe it was a test run. And the cameras that he spray painted were the cameras that he then spray painted, you know, a month later in the act of killing Kenny Fandrich. They did notice it. They filed a suspicious activity report, as you said, but they couldn't pinpoint exactly who it was at the time.

**Anne-Marie Green** (3:19)
You see in the hour, the security footage, I mean, almost all of it is blacked out, except for the probably the most crucial camera, right?
There's one camera where he spray paints almost all of it. There's probably like one tenth at the top where you can actually see what's happening. And because of that little slip up, investigators were able to identify what they believe was the scene of the murder, right? It's this maroon minivan.

**Natalie Morales** (3:48)
Yeah, you know, that one-tenth of a slip up, as you said, was huge for the investigators because with that, they were able to see that maroon minivan just kind of making its way through the parking garage. Now, keep in mind as well, though, that they did have other security cameras all the way through. So as the minivan was making its way up, it was tracked throughout with other cameras that had not all been spray painted. That said, though, they were never really able to see the driver or to identify, you know, the killer in the garage. They needed to do all the police work to connect all those dots. So, you know, what was really fascinating about covering this case is you see, this is a real police procedural. I mean, this shows you how well the police built their case and the minute they had just that little sliver of video that they could see.

**Anne-Marie Green** (4:41)
When you say connect all of the other dots, I guess when you have, it seems like you have a little bit to work with, everything is incredibly important. And so in this video where you can like see the person just a little bit, but he's almost completely covered, the only bit of skin that you can really see is right above his forehead. And so they identify this crease.