but she went. and she scoured and scrubbed those little rooms that looked out on downtown pendleton. and then it was august 14th, 2012. 911, what is your emergency? i am calling from travelodge, in pendleton. there s a girl dead in the bathroom. i don t know. a girl dead in the bathroom? i think she s passed out. okay. i m going to get the police and ambulance headed that way, okay? in his office down the hall from the 911 operator, bill caldera listened and felt the dread flood in. just gave me a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something was not good about this call. bill, remember, was a close friend of the brandhagen family, attends the same church. but he s also a policeman. and that day, with the chief on vacation, lieutenant bill caldera was the man in charge. as soon as one of my patrol sergeants arrived on scene, he requested my presence, which i knew then we would probably be dealing with a homicide.