Murder victim's parents harry killers
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Ken and Gladys Camber of Salem want to make sure that the their daughter's
murderers pay in full
Tuesday May 11, 1999
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From The Associated Press
SALEM -- With a knock on their door, Ken and Gladys Camber went from
planning a wedding for their daughter to organizing her funeral.
It has been more than five years since a pair of sheriff's detectives told
the couple their 18-year-old daughter, Bridget, had been murdered, and the
pain of their loss is still hard to bear. They want to make sure the killers
feel it too.
"You may get sick of us, but I suggest you get used to it," Ken Camber told
the convicted killers at a sentencing hearing. "We"re going to stick to you
like a bad habit."
In 1987, Oregon voters gave the families of crime victims the right to
testify at sentencings.
For the Cambers, it was a way to vent some of the anger that had been
building up during the investigation that led to a pair of teen-agers,
Sterling Cunio and Wilford Hill.
On a chilly night in January 1994, the Cambers were told the bodies of their
daughter and her fiance, 21-year-old Ian Dahl, were found at a park between
Albany and Corvallis. Both had been repeatedly shot in the head.
"The world just came crashing down," Ken Camber said.
Dahl and Bridget Camber met while working at a pizza parlor, and Dahl had
just given her a diamond promise ring for Christmas.
They had plans for jobs and marriage. Dahl had been accepted into an
apprentice electrician's program. Bridget Camber attended Chemeketa
Community College and planned on becoming a Christian missionary.
In signed confessions, Cunio and Hill admitted they approached the young
couple as they were saying goodnight outside Dahl's Salem apartment.
Guns drawn, they ordered Dahl into the backseat and Camber into the
passenger seat of her car. Cunio drove to Interstate 5 and headed south.
Along the way, they took Dahl's wallet, money and class ring. They took
Camber's earrings, but somehow, she concealed the diamond promise ring.
Cunio left the freeway at Albany, then drove west to a gravel road leading
to a park along the Willamette River. The victims were ordered out of the
car and told to lie on the gravel road. Hill rolled Camber onto her stomach
and tied her hands behind her back with a flannel shirt. He then bound
Dahl's legs with the victim's own shoelaces.
Cunio fired a single shot at Dahl's head. The gun jammed when he tried to
fire a second time. Hill shot Camber three times in the head, then pumped
two more bullets into Dahl's head. The bodies were left on the road, six
feet apart.
Cunio and Hill drove to Corvallis in Camber's car, where they picked up
Cunio's ex-girlfriend. They bragged to her about killing two people. She
didn't believe them, so they drove her back to the park to show her the two
bodies.
Cunio and Hill pantomimed the murders, laughing and joking during the
re-enactment. Cunio took a gold chain from around Dahl's neck. He was
wearing the chain that night when police arrested the two killers.
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