The Crater Lake Murders
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The solution to the largest, longest unsolved federal homicide case in Oregon-
based on the FBI's confidential file.
A Shocking Double Homicide
OREGON'S GREATEST MURDER MYSTERY! SOLVED
When two General Motors executives drove into Crater Lake National Park in July 1952, no one could predict they would be dead within an hour—not even their killers.
The FBI Files and the Missing Men
Charles Patrick Culhane
Charles Patrick Culhane
Charles Patrick Culhane
Charles Culhane was the General Sales Manager, out of Detroit, for the GM subsidiary that made Delco batteries and AC spark plugs. This prominent executive disappeared at Crater Lake National Park on July 19, 1952.
the FBI File
Charles Patrick Culhane
Charles Patrick Culhane
This is the first page of the 2,175 page FBI file. The information inside has never been released or widely known until the publication of "The Crater Lake Murders" book in 2023.
Albert Marston Jones
Charles Patrick Culhane
Albert Marston Jones
Albert Jones was a regional salesman out of Berkeley, California traveling with Culhane when they both disappeared shortly after entering the park that Saturday afternoon.
The Bureau's Main Suspect: Serial-Killer Jack Santo
Because of his participation in the killings of at least seven other people around the time of the Crater Lake case, the FBI made Santo their #1 suspect and spent years trying to connect him to the murders of Culhane and Jones. He fit the profile of the Crater Lake murderer in every way, except one.
Link to the FBI File
Annie creek canyon
the file names the killers!
the file names the killers!
Near the scene of the original disappearance and Jones's abandoned Pontiac
the file names the killers!
the file names the killers!
the file names the killers!
Discover more about the case from the official file!
Original map of the scene
the file names the killers!
Original map of the scene
CLNP document that shows where approximately in the park the men's bodies were found.
the perfect crime unravels
Deathbed Plea for Justice
On the day Oscar Arrell died in 1966, he told his wife of the killer's admission to him years before--reminding her about "the thing that nobody talks about". Within a few months, the FBI and Oregon State Police found three other people who knew about it too. Might justice finally be served?
The Crime Scene Location-Rediscovered
Lost to time for more than 70 years, the author (left) was able to find the location of the murders--deep in the woods inside Crater Lake National Park. In the book, he describes how he found it and the new information that lead to discovering the perpetrators. The perfect crime finally unraveled.
The man who fooled the FBI
Kenneth "Coyote" Moore
A criminal mastermind? Perhaps not. But he did evade capture and prosecution for the murders of Jones and Culhane. How did he do it? What forces allowed him to avoid justice in his lifetime? What links him to these murders, inextricably, years after the crime?
the Killers' Final Hours--Death by Misadventure
Ten years after killing Jones and Culhane, Kenneth Moore and the friend he said was with him that day, John Wesley Cole, died together in a horrible accident which Cole's family denies ever happening. Why?
The Crater Lake Murders
The full account of Oregon's greatest unsolved homicide case. Based on the top secret FBI file and new information, including locating the original crime scene inside the park and naming the perpetrators after 70 years.