Security video helps lead to a masked killer who tried to hide the crime

This story originally aired on Oct. 4, 2025. \u00a0Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo of the Hillsboro, Oregon, Police Department had never encountered a crime scene like the one they encountered in January 2023.\u00a0Natalie Morales: How would you two characterize this case when you first got it? What did you think?\u00a0Det. Stephanie Winter: You know, I just thought that it\u0027s a wild case. Det. Stephanie Winter: It was in the evening \u2026 after nine. Det. Devin Rigo: So we all got a page on our department cell phones saying that there was \u2026 death at Intel. Intel, the giant tech company known for its innovative computer chips, had several large production facilities in Hillsboro, outside of Portland.\u00a0Det. Stephanie Winter: It didn\u0027t make sense. \u2026 He looked like he had passed peacefully. \u2026 there was minimal blood within the car.\u00a0Police find a dead body inside an Oregon parking garageThe deceased was Kenneth "Kenny" Fandrich, age 56, a contract pipe fitter at the plant. His wife, Tanya, had reported him missing when he was late getting home. Like many couples, they shared their locations on their phones. Tanya tracked him to the Intel parking lot.\u00a0TANYA FANDRICH (police bodycam video): What\u0027s wrong?\u00a0OFFICER: We \u2014 we\u0027re not sure right now.She was already there at the garage when police arrived with body cameras rolling.OFFICER (police bodycam video): So, we\u0027re going to have the fire \u2014 we\u0027re gonna have the medics \u2014\u00a0TANYA FANDRICH: Where is he? \u2026OFFICER: He\u0027s here in the garage somewhere \u2026\u00a0A short time later, she learned that her husband was dead.The Hillsboro Police Mobile Command Center was stationed at the scene, and that was where detectives first talked to Tanya.\u00a0Natalie Morales (Inside the Mobile Command Center): That night, you \u2014 you brought Tanya Fandrich, right in here \u2026 What did she seem like to you?Det. Dayanna Mesch: She was very monotone \u2026 in the way she was speaking.Detective Dayanna Mesch was first to interview Tanya Fandrich. Det. Dayana Mesh: She seemed very out of her body. Like she didn\u0027t react as \u2014Natalie Morales: Mm-hmm.Det. Dayanna Mesch: \u2014 as much as you would think somebody would \u2026 but I had to kind of pull a lot of the answers out of her.Mesch learned more about why Tanya had been at the scene.Det. Dayanna Mesch: She told me that they had some issues in the past with their marriage \u2026 now \u2026 they would check in on each other more often. \u2026Natalie Morales: Do alarm bells sort of go off here? Det. Dayanna Mesch: Yeah. There was some suspicion \u2026 we always look at the people closest to the deceased.But Mesch knew better than to draw conclusions right away. Det. Dayanna Mesch: Everybody grieves differently \u2026 it just was different than other victims I\u0027ve seen \u2026\u00a0There was a lot to process for Tanya and investigators. The scene did not appear violent.Det. Stephanie Winter: His lunch bag \u2026 his lunch, his keys, his phone, all set neatly next to him in the passenger seat. Det. Stephanie Winter: My first thought was, how are we going to figure this out?\u00a0Their first clues would come from those surveillance cameras.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo (watching security video): So he will pop up right here, uh, next to that column that we\u0027re seeing right here in the \u2014 in the corner. Just kinda waits for a camera and then just pops up. The detectives discovered a man wearing a hard hat and red-mirror tinted glasses had actually spray painted those cameras around 7 a.m. earlier that same day \u2014 his movements undetected by Intel security.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: I wanna say about six or seven cameras.But there were also cameras that had not been sprayed. And investigators locked in on images of a vehicle they believed belonged to the suspect.Det. Devin Rigo: We\u0027re looking at early afternoon now, and then we see this maroon van come in the parking garage. And no front plate on the car. It was an older, maroon-colored Dodge van. They tracked the van\u0027s movement\u0027s camera by camera before it disappeared. Under a layer of blue spray paint, moments later they could just make out the van pulling into a parking spot.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo (watching security video): So right here, you can see that the van is this shadow right in here.\u00a0Natalie Morales: OK, right.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: And then, this vehicle right here is actually Kenneth Fandrich\u0027s black Honda Civic.It was 3:21 p.m., just after Kenny had finished his shift. He is seen on video walking back through the garage. And then\u2026 very hard to see\u2026 behind the blue spray paint.Det. Devin Rigo (watching surveillance video): You can see a little bit of movement right here \u2014\u00a0Natalie Morales: Mm-hmm.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: \u2014 in the \u2014 in the thing. And that is Kenneth walking back to his car.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: You just kind of have to watch the \u2014 kind of shadows essentially what\u0027s going on \u2014 \u00a0Natalie Morales: Mm-hmm.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: \u2014 between the two vehicles. Det. Devin Rigo: \u2014 you start seeing the headlights flash a couple times like, you know \u2026 somebody be unlocking their car.Detectives say the headlights on Kenny\u0027s Honda flashed as he unlocked his car with his key fob. That\u0027s when they believe the masked man grabbed Fandrich, still holding onto his keys.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo\u00a0 (watching security video):\u00a0 You see a lot of movement happening all of a sudden.\u00a0Natalie Morales: Then you see a lot of lights.\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: A lot of lights.Detectives say that\u0027s Kenny desperately pushing his key fob as the masked man dragged him into that maroon van.Natalie Morales: What do you think that\u0027s what\u0027s going on in there during that when you see those lights flashing?\u00a0Det. Devin Rigo: We think \u2026 that\u0027...

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