The Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott

Author:Robert Scott [Scott, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

A BAD DUDE

Joel Patrick Courtney was born in Panorama City, California, which is in the southern part of the state, not far from Los Angeles. Before long, however, the family moved to Beaverton, Oregon.

Beaverton, Oregon, named for the abundance of beaver dams in the area, was initially settled as a shipping point on the Oregon Central Railroad. By the time Joel was growing up, Beaverton was fast becoming a suburb of Portland, with a wide array of light industry, electronics companies, and research centers.

Joel was a slow learner and didn’t like school. Whether it is true or not, Joel would later state that he dropped out of school by the time he was fourteen years old, in 1980. This may not have been the case, since other individuals would speak of being a classmate of Joel in high school.

Joel’s sister, Dina, said that at age eleven Joel started using illegal drugs. Because of his taste for drugs and an unrestrained temper, Joel ended up in juvenile hall at age fifteen. According to Dina, Joel developed an interest in Satanism around this time as well. He definitely liked rock music that had a dark, sinister side to it.

Dina later told authorities that when Joel was fourteen years old, she awoke one night in bed to find Joel on top of her. He had his hand around her neck and he was partially undressed. He had an erection and was trying to undress her. Dina struck him on the side of the head with a clock to make him stop, preventing herself from being raped.

Corvallis PD detective Shawn Houck later spoke with one of Joel’s female cousins, who was younger than Joel. Detective Houck discovered that this cousin said that Joel had sexually abused her on four different occasions when she was between the ages of twelve and seventeen. The first incident occurred when she spent the night at the Courtney home. She was twelve years old, and awoke to find Joel, then age fourteen, completely naked and straddling her body. She was wearing overalls at the time, which somehow kept him from undressing her. He might have persisted, but a family member walked down the hallway at that moment. It frightened Joel into ceasing his attack on her. Joel told her not to say anything to anyone about the incident, or “life will be bad for you!”

Joel left the bedroom and went downstairs; she soon followed. When she did, Joel told her to go back upstairs and get into bed. She wouldn’t do it. She was afraid that once she did, he would follow her and complete what he had started.

A later incident probably occurred in 1983, when Joel was seventeen years old. The cousin and several relatives were staying at their grandparents’ home in Burbank, California. On at least two occasions, she woke up with Joel lying next to her. On both occasions he had an arm around her and was touching her breasts. She didn’t recall him touching between her legs on those occasions.

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