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Left: Kaley Snow (Facebook). Right: Bobby Alsup (Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office).
An Oregon woman disappeared after sending an ominous message to a friend, warning that a man she was secretly involved with might attempt to kill her. Weeks later, her body was discovered in a shed on the property they shared, brutally beaten with a hammer and wrapped in a blanket, prosecutors reported.
On Tuesday, Bobby Alsup, aged 33, was convicted of the second-degree murder of 31-year-old Kaley Snow. He was also found guilty of arson, theft, corpse abuse, and illegal weapon use for her 2024 murder, during which he attempted to destroy evidence by setting her body on fire.
A press release from Clackamas County detailed Alsup’s heinous acts, describing how he fatally struck Snow with a hammer, concealed her body with a blanket, and left it in the shed on their Flavel property. To cover his tracks, he set the shed ablaze and poured cleaning fluid on both her body and the weapon used in the crime.
During the trial, prosecutors presented text messages Snow had sent weeks before her death, expressing fear to a friend that “this dude staying here might try to kill me,” as reported by The Oregonian. Snow had initially met Alsup through his girlfriend, who was her friend, and the two had secretly developed a romantic relationship.
The prosecution highlighted Alsup’s troubling behavior as their relationship progressed, noting that he had begun selling Snow’s belongings online—a pattern that continued even after her death.
“[Alsup] began renting a room in the house a few weeks before the murder, immediately started taking items from the home on multiple occasions and selling them,” the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office said in its press release announcing Alsup’s conviction.
“I’m not afraid to die, just afraid of nobody knowing who it was,” Snow texted her friend, according to The Oregonian. She referred to Alsup as acting “sketchy” and being behind on his rent, while also hiding their relationship from his girlfriend.
“You’ve been gone awhile, so I gotta ask what’s up with the room,” Snow reportedly texted Alsup on March 12, 2024, just five days before she was murdered. “Do you even still want it?” she asked.
On March 17, 2024, cellphone data showed Alsup at the property they shared for roughly four hours. Prosecutors said this is when he killed her.
“Alsup struck Snow twice with a hammer, once on each side of her head,” the DA’s press release states. “He also took steps to cover up the crime, such as texting Snow after the murder to establish an alibi and dousing the hammer with a household cleaning product to destroy DNA evidence,” the release explains.
During his trial, one of Alsup’s defense attorneys argued that Alsup returned to the house and found Snow’s bludgeoned body, per the DA’s office. Alsup, who has several prior convictions for assault, “feared he might be blamed for the murder, so he hid her body,” according to his lawyer’s claims.
Prosecutors say the evidence and facts, however, pointed to Alsup being responsible.
“It is implausible that Alsup thought he would get in trouble, so he cleaned up someone else’s mess,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Stacey Borgman told jurors, according to the DA’s press release.
Alsup returned to the pair’s house just past midnight on March 21, 2024, and set the shed on fire using gasoline. Firefighters found Snow’s remains after responding to put out the blaze.
“Detectives used cell phone tracking data to document Alsup’s whereabouts, found Snow’s blood on his clothing and noted that Alsup conducted numerous internet searches to determine whether police had found Snow’s body or were conducting a missing person investigation,” the DA’s office says.
Alsup’s physical and digital DNA “was all over that crime scene,” according to Borgman.
Alsup faces a minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 25.