I received an e-mail of support for my Keddie Murder Cabin travelogue and thought I’d repost the link for those of you who never heard about the controversy. Back in 2001, I read about a group of extremely grisly unsolved murders at the Keddie Resort in the Feather River Canyon of Northern California that occurred in the early ’80s. A friend of mine had grown up in the area and had gone to school with one of the murder victims. We decided to take a drive up to Keddie to find the cabin for ourselves and photograph it. We did so, and my ensuing travelogue (with its typical black humor) didn’t go over so well with the natives. I received a lot of hate mail, which I lovingly share on the site.
In 2006, Cabin 28, where the attack occurred, was demolished, thus taking an irreplaceable piece of morbid history with it. But the travelogue lives on… and the story was recently covered by David Kulczyk in his book Death In California (complete with some of my actually pretty poor photographs).
Cabin 28
Here again is the Keddie Travelogue in all its gorey:
Keddie Resort
And here’s the Hate Mail page:
Fan Mail!
Enjoy!
Shame it was torn down. You’re right, they should have opened it up for tours! I would’ve if I owned the place.
Does anybody know what became of the documentary that was going to be made about the case? Was it scrapped, or what?
Hello,
I am working on an magazine article about the Keddie 28 case. It has been difficult try to source the copyright owners of the images that I am coming across. The one image we are particularly interested in is the front on cabin shot (seen here in this link from your blog).
Do you know who owns the copyright to that particular image?
Hope you can help
Many thanks
That’s my image – I’ll send you an e-mail about it.