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Brooke Carol Wilberger (born February 20, 1985 in Fresno, California) is a woman who is believed to have been abducted from Corvallis, Oregon on the morning of May 24, 2004. Described as a devout Mormon, Brooke was a freshman at Brigham Young University in Utah.At the time of her disappearance she was on summer break, visiting her sister at Oregon State University, cleaning lamp posts in the parking lot of the Oak Park Apartments on the edge of campus.Investigation
A billboard in Salem requesting information on Brooke Wilberger.The investigation initially centered on Sung Koo Kim, who was named as "person of interest" in the disappearance. Kim was later dropped as a suspect, but given a 68-month prison sentence for crimes uncovered while being investigated for the Wilberger disappearance.On November 30, 2004 a University of New Mexico student was kidnapped and raped, before escaping and identifying Joel Patrick Courtney as her attacker. Police eventually linked Courtney, a native of Beaverton, Oregon, to the disappearance of Wilberger and in August 2005 he was charged on 19 counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping, sexual abuse, rape and sodomy.On September 12, 2007 Courtney pled guilty to the kidnapping and rape of the 22-year old University of New Mexico foreign exchange student. Courtney's plea agreement calls for a prison sentence of up to 18 years, plus five to twenty years on parole. He also must register as a sex offender.Courtney is set to be extradited to Benton County, Oregon for the Wilberger case, where he faces a possible death sentence.Wilberger's family is still offering a $15,000 reward for the recovery of her body.
