WILL MOORE took this picture of the strange arrangement of dead deer by the roadside near his home, at the intersection of Browns Creek and Chenowith roads. The doe was there for a time, then was surrounded by rocks, with a cross added. Then the two fawns were placed there, and finally a white towel appeared in the circle. Contributed Photo
WILL MOORE took this picture of the strange arrangement of dead deer by the roadside near his home, at the intersection of Browns Creek and Chenowith roads. The doe was there for a time, then was surrounded by rocks, with a cross added. Then the two fawns were placed there, and finally a white towel appeared in the circle. Contributed Photo
Over several days, someone gathered three dead deer – a doe and two fawns — into a group at the junction of Browns Creek and Chenowith roads, then put a circle of rocks around them and added a cross.
Will Moore, whose driveway is about a quarter mile from the scene, finally called the Wasco County Sheriff’s Office about it last Tuesday.
The call was given to the Oregon State Police. Fish and wildlife officer Swede Pearson investigated and believes the deer were road kill, “and for whatever reason they were placed there.”
Moore said, “First, it was just the deer and it was just there. I don’t know if it was for a week, but it was there for a while. And then all of a sudden there were rocks around it.”
A few days later, a fawn was stacked next to the doe. When a second fawn was added to the circle, Moore called police.
The cross added to the scene “had some ornamentation to it and had been lacquered. It wasn’t like they just took two sticks and put it there,” Moore said.
Finally, he saw something white in the circle, and when he got closer, realized it was perhaps a towel.
“It might be someone wanting to send them into the netherworld in good condition,” Moore said. He also thought it might be suspicious, since it was in the area where the Chenowith Fire started during the ongoing Rowena Fire. Pearson said, “it looks like for whatever reason somebody found the deer in the same general vicinity and put them in the same place and put rocks around them. I don’t know for sure why,” he said. “Maybe it’s a memorial to the mother and her two fawns, hard to say for sure.”
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