EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Murder charges have been filed against a homeless man accused of killing two men in Creswell, Oregon.
Sgt. Carrie Carver of the Lane County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that 42-year-old Eugene Whitehall was booked into jail on charges of aggravated murder and arson.
The charges come a day after authorities said two bodies were found in the rubble from the July 16 fire that destroyed a two-story home located on a pig farm.
The victims were 65-year-old Dennis Michael Kelley and 69-year-old Carl Robb McFarland. Carver says both men lived on the property.
Sheriff’s Lt. Cliff Harrold told The Register-Guard newspaper that Whitehall had previously stayed at the home while working there.
Harrold declined to say if investigators recovered any weapons that may have been used to kill the men before the fire.
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