A man accused of m8rdering his landlady with a hammer and burning her body was found guilty this week in Oregon, United States.
A jury in Clackamas County found Bobby Lee Alsup guilty of the m8rder of Kaley Ann Snow in March 2024, as well as arson, theft, abuse of a corpse and unlawful use of a weapon.
Snow had been renting a room to Alsup at the time of her m8rder.
Snow had predicted her d3ath at Alsup’s hands weeks before the crime happened.
On February 19, 2024, she reportedly sent a text to a friend that read, “I think this dude staying here might try to k!ll me. I’m not afraid to d!e, just afraid of nobody knowing who it was.”
Alsup and Snow had met through Alsup’s girlfriend, and he had been renting the room for a few weeks, but was rarely home and was behind on rent.
A motive for the crime was not clarified, but the Oregonian’s reporting indicates that Alsup and the victim were also involved romantically.
“You’ve been gone a while, so I gotta ask what’s up with the room?” Snow asked Alsup in a text, according to testimony from a Clackamas County Sheriff’s detective. “Do you even still want it?”
Alsup reportedly made plans to visit the home on March 17, 2024, but then sent a text to Snow apologizing for not being able to come. But, phone records show he was at the home for four hours that day.
Detectives said, during that time, Alsup had bludgeoned Snow with a hammer twice before hiding her body in a shed where he “left her to rot.”
Three days later, Alsup’s girlfriend accused him of strangling her.
Alsup was arrested and questioned about Snow’s disappearance after a tip to police from his girlfriend.
He denied knowing anything and was released from jail on March 21.
He then returned to the shed where Snow’s body was hidden and set it on fire.
First responders recovered Snow’s body as they put out the fire, and her death was ruled a homicide.
Snow’s blood was found on the clothes Alsup was wearing at the time of the crime.
In court, Alsup’s defense team argued he had returned to the home where he found Snow d3ad.
Fearing he would be blamed for her murder, he tried to hide her remains.
However, Senior Deputy District Attorney Stacey Borgman said it was unlikely Alsup had “cleaned up someone else’s mess” to avoid charges, saying Alsup’s DNA was found all over the crime scene and his digital footprint indicated he was there at the time of the murder.
Alsup will be sentenced on March 25.
The minimum sentence he would receive would be life in prison with the chance of parole in 25 years.
