Man Charged With Killing Oregon Teens

PORTLAND, Ore. - A 26-year-old man was arrested in Spencer, N.Y., Saturday on charges he killed two Oregon teenagers and dumped their bodies in the Mount Hood National Forest.

Randal Paul Mott, a former neighbor of the victims, was charged with 12 counts of aggravated murder and six counts of murder in the deaths of Denyel Lynn Dillenburg, 16, and Shawn Mary Anderson, 19, both of Tigard.

Clackamas County sheriff's detective Mark White said in New York that troopers stopped a pickup truck driven by Mott about a half-mile from the home of his father.

He is to be arraigned today in Tioga County Court in Owego.Y.

Dillenburg and Anderson disappeared from their Tigard apartment the night of Sept. 28 after saying they were going to meet someone. Loggers found their nude bodies Nov. 14 down an embankment along a forest road about 40 miles southeast of Estacada.

The various charges are based on alternative legal theories of the slayings, including allegations that Mott killed each of the victims to cover up his murder of the other and to conceal their kidnappings.

Authorities believe Mott kidnapped the two women, bound them with duct tape, beat them with a blunt instrument and disposed of their bodies and clothes.

The bodies were too badly decomposed to determine whether they were raped.

Until recently, Mott lived with his wife and two young sons in the apartment complex where the two women were living with Dillenberg's mother at the time of their disappearance.