Dog stabbed, 2 people stabbed to death days later Portland, OR (US) Incident Date: Sunday, Apr 2, 2006 County: Multnomah Local Map: available Disposition: Alleged Alleged: Joseph Ray O'Neil

Case ID: 8027 Classification: Stabbing Animal: dog (non pit-bull) View more cases in OR (US) Login to Watch this Case

A Portland man was charged April 8 in the stabbing deaths of his mother and stepfather at their home in the Charbonneau district of Wilsonville, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

Joseph Ray O'Neil, 25, faces two counts of murder in the deaths of his mother, Timmie Laurel Stumpf, 55, and her husband, Craig Stephen Stumpf, 60.

An autopsy completed April 8 showed the couple died of multiple stab wounds.

The killings occurred just days after O'Neil, described by police as "a drifter," is accused of menacing his girlfriend and stabbing her dog, a 5-year-old Rottweiler, at her home in the 8300 block of Southeast Kelly in Portland.

O'Neil fled before police arrived and remained on the loose from April 3-April 6, when police found him in his girlfriend's backyard with self-inflicted stab wounds in his neck and wrists, police said. A woman at the Kelly Street address declined to comment.

O'Neil was treated for his wounds at Oregon Health Sciences University and arrested upon his release at about 11:30 a.m. April 7-- a little more than an hour before his mother and stepfather's bodies were found.

In addition to the murder charges in Clackamas County, Portland police charged O'Neil with one count of menacing, one count of criminal mischief and one count of first-degree animal abuse. The dog survived the stabbing after four hours of surgery, said a Portland police spokeswoman, Catherine Kent.

As detectives interrogated O'Neil in the dog case, they learned that he also was a person of interest in the Wilsonville killings.

"Their case superceded ours and we turned him over to Clackamas immediately," Kent said.

O'Neil has a lengthy criminal history starting in 1999, including prior arrests for kidnapping, assault, burglary, criminal mischief, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and carrying a concealed weapon -- a knife.

O'Neil was arrested by Clackamas County Sheriff's investigators in Portland and taken to Clackamas County Jail late Friday and held on two counts of murder.

He will be arraigned April 10 in Clackamas County.

Evidence technicians and investigators were processing the scene in Wilsonville and expected to complete forensic work late Saturday.

Relatives of the Stumpfs called police Friday afternoon and asked them to check on the couple. Police found the couple dead in their two-story home, which is along the fairway of a Charbonneau golf course. Public records show that Timmie Stumpf had once worked as a sales clerk at The Gap and Craig Stumpf owned his own business as an insurance adjuster.

One of the couple's cars, a 1992 Honda, had been stolen. Police said the car has been recovered.

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	The Sunday Oregonian - April 9, 2006
	KATU - April 8, 2006

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