Newly unsealed court documents provide the first glimpse at evidence allegedly linking murder suspect Joel Courtney to the abduction Brooke Wilberger.

A New Mexico judge unsealed the documents at the request of KGW, Newschannel 8.

An affidavit, written by a Corvallis Police Detective, suggests the evidence linking Courtney to Wilberger’s disappearance includes witness accounts, physical evidence and medical records.

Brooke Wilberger disappeared from a Corvallis apartment complex on May 24, 2004 while visiting her sister.

Bizarre Behavior

Joel Courtney was scheduled to appear in Lincoln Circuit Court on a DUII charge the day Brooke Wilberger disappeared. According to investigators, Courtney’s in-laws claim he was going to return that same day.

Instead, Courtney’s in-laws tell police he didn’t return for 2-3 days. The report suggests, he never called his family or his employer while he was gone. The detective says, Courtney told his family two different stories, “The first being that he had been the recent victim of a kidnapping and the second being simply that he had to get out of Oregon because the ‘cops were after him’.”

Investigators say, Courtney went to the emergency room at Oregon Health Sciences University on May 26, 2004 complaining of chest pain and high blood pressure. According to investigators, this is “consistent with someone laboring under a high level of anxiety commonly produced after a major criminal event.”

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Courtney’s in-laws also told police that when he left on May 24, 2004 his green van was clean. When he returned, “the exterior was very muddy.”

Witnesses

Investigators say, three witnesses have placed Joel Courtney and his green mini-van near the scene, at the time of Wilberger’s disappearance.

The report suggests, an OSU employee picked Courtney out of a photo line-up. Detectives say, two female students also report Courtney tried, unsuccessfully to lure them into his van.

The report details one incident, “The driver exited the driver’s side seat and opened the sliding door on the driver side of the van. He had a map of Corvallis in the van.” The woman told police she was suspicious and walked away.

Abuduction

Police believe physical evidence proves Brooke Wilberger was abducted. She was cleaning lamp posts in the parking lot of a Corvallis apartment complex when she disappeared. The report explains, “the toe strap of the right flip-flop thong had been pulled out of the top of the thong.”

Investigators also describe how witnesses reported hearing a scream at the time Wilberger disappeared. Sound testing at the apartment complex confirms, the screams likely came from the area when Wilberger disappeared, claims the report.

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The Profile

Detectives say, Joel Courtney’s criminal history make him a likely suspect. According to police, Courtney has been arrested nine times. His family explains that he tried to sexually assault female family members as a child. Joel Courtney was convicted for the rape of a college student in New Mexico which detectives explain, “has the physical features similar to Brooke Wilberger.”