Darren Dee O'Neall

O'Neall would eventually want to target another woman, heading to Baldy's Tavern in Puyallup with Mary on the 27th.

When it was past midnight, he saw 22-year-old Robin Smith, who was with her fiancé Larron Crowston.

Wanting to get Smith alone, O'Neall made Barnes declare an "after hours party" at their apartment to the patrons present.

Crowston left the apartment before Robin did to go fishing, and after Barnes left the apartment for a few hours, she returned to see O'Neall and Smith weren't there any longer.

Smith's family friend Jim Chaney later questioned O'Neall, and a witness there at the time stated that he saw a leg in the trunk with a purple and white sock.

Crowston returned from his trip and slept, waking up to realize Smith still hadn't returned.

After calling her mother Edna, who replied she wasn't at her home either, they reported her disapprearance to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office.

After Smith's family and acquaintances gave a description of her to police detectives, they searched Barnes' apartment, where O'Neall had taken various supplies.

An arrest warrant was issued for O'Neall on charges of evading justice, and his description was disseminated across the country and to nearby police departments.

Darren Dee O'Neall (born February 26, 1960) is an American convicted murderer, serial rapist, suspected serial killer, and former fugitive.

O'Neall was convicted of the kidnapping and rape of a 14-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, after having already been convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Robin Smith in Edgewood, Washington.

O'Neall was suspected to have killed six women in total.

Darren Dee O'Neall was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 26, 1960, to Darrell and Christa O'Neall.

The family primarily resided in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

O'Neall was the youngest of his brothers, Michael and Kevin, and had a younger sister named Kristen.

Darrell O'Neall was drafted into the army while raising the family, and as a result the family would move to numerous cities where he was stationed, including Bad Tölz in Bavaria, Germany and Fort Polk, Louisiana.

This was later attributed to O'Neall's growing into being a drifter in adulthood,.

O'Neall's high school years were spent in Fort Polk, where he met his future wife, June Hodges.

They had a son, Christopher, who was adopted by O'Neall's parents and raised in Colorado Springs while O'Neall was a fugitive.

O'Neall also had a common-law marriage to a woman in Levittown, Pennsylvania, with whom he had his second son Jason, in spite of not being divorced from June.

O'Neall enlisted in the army and was stationed in Bremerhaven, Germany, before being discharged on February 28, 1982.

O'Neall was last reported as being back in Colorado Springs before his crime spree began.

O'Neall was a passionate reader of western novels by American author Louis L'Amour, having sent letters to the novelist himself that were never received, and he took numerous aliases from L'Amour's novels.

O'Neall would canvas country and western bars during his travels, places reported to have also been his comfort zone when scouting for victims.

FBI offender profilers, who saw O'Neall to fit the classic serial killer pathology, assumed his life and crimes revolved around living in Western and outlaw fantasies akin to his favorite literature.

Throughout 1982, the police in Colorado Springs knew O'Neall from his criminal record, which included various public indecencies.

In November 1984, O'Neall was charged with sexually assaulting a woman, but as she ended up disappearing, the charges were reduced to aggravated robbery and then dropped altogether.

In July 1986, O'Neall was arrested for second-degree sexual assault, but soon absconded, and a warrant for his arrest was issued.

O'Neall is also heavily suspected of numerous other sex crimes extending as far as Germany, from while he was with his parents to his time serving in the military.

After arriving in Washington state, O'Neall reconnected with a former high school classmate who was living there.

O'Neall was encouraged to stay and found an old duplex in Puyallup, before acquiring truck-driving job in Tacoma.

While on his way to Portland, Oregon, during the evening of January 17, 1987, O'Neall spotted a fourteen-year-old teenage girl walking on a freeway to a convenience store.

O'Neall drove past her a second time, then parked his truck and waited for her to leave.

When she left with soda and candy, O'Neall abducted her, threatening with a knife and an unseen Ruger revolver to kill her if she screamed or tried to fight or run.

Driving her to a secluded unpaved location while she was tied and gagged in the sleeping compartment, O'Neall stripped, raped, and sodomized the girl for several hours.

O'Neall eventually released the girl, driving her to a spot where she could reach home easily and left her on the side of the road.

She went straight to a truck stop, where an employee drove her back home.

A rape exam was conducted to collect evidence, and the girl was questioned for a description, but O'Neall had already fled.

He changed his appearance and moved to Edgewood, Washington, where he found work as a laminator under the alias Herb Johnson.

O'Neall met Mary Barnes in March, eventually beginning a relationship with her.