Kidnapper leaves bloody trail in Oregon, hides under house

By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police converged in force on the tiny, unincorporated community of Wolf Creek in southwest Oregon the night of Jan. 26 as they hunted for a suspect who was wanted for kidnapping and torturing a woman nearly to death. Five days later, Benjamin Obadiah Foster was dead, finally located by police hiding in the crawlspace of a house in nearby Grants Pass. It was the same home where his victim had been found unconscious and bound a week earlier. But police said Wednesday that in the interim, Foster entered another home and killed two strangers.