Religious Extremism in County Has Resulted in Violence, Murder
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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2010 • DAILY COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON — 5 D Religious extremism in county Story of Kim family lost has resulted in violence, murder in the hills riveted nation By Jim Moore hypothermia. A few days later, Leo said arms, on Aug. 19, 1993. cocktail. of the Daily Courier The family was on a holi- By Edith Decker day and was en route home of the Daily Courier Naked Truth told him the She was arrested at the air- As the landmark store Greene family was “totalled,” port as she turned in her rental burned, Paul James Priest- wrong turn became after visiting friends in n the 1980s and ’90s, several according to court testimony. car. ley, 58, walked the short dis- the top local story of Portland. While in Salem people with extreme reli- Sharon, who was always the Shannon had been arrested tance to Lincoln Savage Mid- A2006 and the focus of they made telephone reser- Igious views ran afoul of the shooter in the murders, was on other occasions, including dle School carrying a sawed- national and international vations at Tu Tu Tun Lodge law — and made headlines. tried separately from Deborah, in 1988 in Atlanta, Ga., with off shotgun and two pipe news outlets. near Gold Beach. However, ❏ ❏ ❏ who quickly pleaded guilty to eight other protesters from bombs. He confronted faculty James Kim, 35, a CNET they missed an exit off Networks edi- Interstate 5 The Halsteads conspiracy to murder on May Southern Oregon. In 1990, as students 12, 1989. Her sentence was courts ordered 26 protesters, dove out of tor from San to Highway In November of 1988, the later extended. She has since including Shannon, a house- his way. Francisco, 42. community was gripped by the been released from prison and wife and mother of two chil- He was found They unraveling story of the Hal- is no longer on parole. dren, to pay $12 million in demanded dead Dec. 6 in referred to stead and Greene families, all Sharon eventually pleaded damages to a Portland Clinic. someone the snow-cov- an Internet members of an Adventist off- guilty to aggravated murder “I didn’t think she’d shoot drive a ered hills map service shoot group for killing Lynnann Greene. anybody,” said her husband, school bus about 25 directing in Grants She also pleaded guilty to David, who said he didn’t to Planned miles north- them to Bear Pass, who killing Lemke. She was given know about or support her Parent- west of Camp Road, Grants Pass. which can be believed that 75 years to life in total and is protest work, at the time. “It hood’s He was trying treacherous angels spoke currently incarcerated at Cof- was a hell of a thing to wake Grants PRIESTLEY to find help and closed by to certain fee Creek Correctional Facility up to.” Pass office for his wife snow in the members of for women in Wilsonville with Shannon intimated in one so he could detonate his Kati, 30, and winter. the families. no possibility of parole. letter sent home from prison bombs. daughters In the After Adventist church officials that evidence could be found He did not get a ride, so he Penelope, 4, black Novem- arguments struck the Halstead sisters buried somewhere near her crossed New Hope Road to and Sabine, 7 ber night, over some of from membership in the house. Investigators found a the Three Rivers School Dis- months, who they took a these angel- church. bag full of evidence, including trict Office, where high S. HALSTEAD were rescued wrong turn ic pro- Leo and Michael “Harry” some linking her to fire bomb- school wrestling coach Dami- after being and found nouncements — most of them Shively were brought up in ings in Oregon. an McLean tackled him, caus- FILE/Daily Courier spotted near themselves made by Sharon Halstead’s various treatment facilities. She said in one letter, “I’m ing the shotgun to go off, their car by a stuck on a son Leo Shively, then age 9 — David Greene continues to not denying I shot Tiller. But I injuring Priestley in the hip Kati Kim holds her helicopter side road off Sharon and her younger sister infant daughter, live and work in the communi- deny that it was wrong. It was and sending pellets into the pilot. Bear Camp Deborah Halstead, Leo and his ty and has remarried. the most holy, most righteous wall of a computer lab filled It took nine Sabine, in helicopter leading to 12-year-old brother Michael Nathaniel Greene, now 24, is thing I’ve ever done.” with students, who were unin- days for after their rescue. Black Bar entered the Greene home on attending Southern Oregon At her trial in Kansas in jured. search and Lodge, which Nov. 5, 1988, planning to kill University. He’s had all the March 1994, she was found McLean and sheriff’s rescue crews including is not open in the winter. the entire Greene family. operations available to him, guilty of attempted murder deputies subdued Priestley, about 100 people, four heli- The incident sparked Sharon shot David Greene, his father says, but remains and one count of aggravated who told investigators that he copters and aircraft to find criticism of the search tech- 31, as he ran to neighbors to paralyzed. assault, for threatening a per- destroyed the store because the woman and her daugh- niques, led to the posting of call for help. She then shot ❏ ❏ ❏ son who pursued her. After he believed the owner had ters. warning signs and two inde- Lynnann Greene, 32, and her 2- Shelley Shannon that trial, she was brought to vandalized his church, Mur- The family became lost pendent reviews of the year-old son Nathaniel, inside Portland to face federal phy Chapel, and because he on Nov. 25, when they mis- episode. the Greene home. Rachelle Ranae “Shelley” charges of involvement in the believed pornography and takenly tried to traverse The conclusions of the Lynnann died at the scene. Shannon of Grants Pass was 37 fire bombings of several abor- drugs were sold there. rugged Bear Camp Road to reviews were that there David survived after surgery. when she took a plane to Will tion clinics in 1992, including He admitted he also get to Gold Beach. On Nov. were gaps in communication Nathaniel was paralyzed from Rogers those in Ashland, Eugene and planned to shoot any health 30, Portland police and the between the searching agen- the chest down after long surg- World Air- Portland. care providers at the Planned Oregon State Police issued cies and possibly a delay in eries to save his life. port in Okla- She pleaded guilty June 7, Parenthood office, because he alerts about the missing responding to information Investigators discovered homa City, 1995, to 10 federal charges. mistakenly believed abortions family. concerning a cell phone call that Sharon and Deborah rented a She received 11 years in the were being provided there, After becoming lost and in the area, but there was no believed that Leo heard direc- car, and shooting incident and 20 more and then kill himself. stuck, the family used their conclusion that James Kim tions from an angel sent from drove it to years for the clinic attacks. Priestley, who grew up in car heater until they ran out could have been saved had God called Naked Truth. He Wichita, Now 53, she remains in fed- Josephine County, had of gas, then burned tires to those not occurred. could also tell when items or Kan., where eral prison in Waseca, Minn., returned to live with his stay warm and attract atten- There have been other people were “totalled,” which George 75 miles south of Minneapolis. aging mother, who said at tion. Kati Kim nursed her incidents of people getting meant they were possessed by Tiller, a doc- Her earliest release date is the time the family was children because they had stuck on Bear Camp Road, evil. tor infamous Nov. 7, 2018. extremely religious, but that only a few jars of baby food including some after the Leo previously directed that SHANNON among anti- ❏ ❏ ❏ she didn’t know he felt so and scant other supplies. new signs were posted. the men at a Clackamas Coun- abortion The Murphy bomber strongly about the store or James Kim left his fami- Sparked by the Kim inci- ty ranch should be killed and activists because he performed abortion. ly to seek help wearing only dent, the Oregon Legislature Sharon shot ranch hand late-term abortions, had his On Jan. 19, 1995, a retired Priestley pleaded guilty to tennis shoes on his feet. It later passed a bill requiring Marston Lemke, 58. She stole a clinic. veteran of the U.S. Navy and firearms violations and was was later determined he search and rescue units to truck, horse trailer and horse, She waited outside with defense work overseas parked sentenced to 13 years and 10 walked 17 miles before suc- team up over regions to which were found later in other protesters and, when he in front of the gas pumps at months in federal prison. He cumbing to exposure and improve performance. Grants Pass and led the inves- drove away at the end of the the Murphy Store and blew hanged himself in his cell on tigators to the Lemke murder. day, she shot him in both his truck up with a Molotov June 23, 1996. Birthday Business Review 1 8 5 1 88 1 9 0 1 9 3 1 9 4 1 9 4 7 5 2 0 1 7 Newman United Clark’s Grants Pass The Wonder Hart Herb’s Methodist Church Insurance Inc.