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OREGON CITY, Or. -- A Clackamas County jury found Bobby Lee Alsup guilty Tuesday of murdering a woman, hiding her body in a shed then returning days later to set fire to the building.
Alsup, 33, was found guilty of Murder in the Second Degree, Arson in the First Degree, Theft in the First Degree, Abuse of a Corpse in the First Degree and Unlawful use of a Weapon. Sentencing is scheduled for 1 p.m. March 25. He faces a minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
Alsup killed Kaley Ann Snow at her home on Southeast Flavel Drive on March 17, 2024.
Alsup struck Snow twice with a hammer, once on each side of her head, said Senior Deputy District Attorney Bill Golden. He then wrapped Snow’s body in a blanket and “left her to rot” in a shed on the property.
Alsup, who 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 online.
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.
One of Alsup’s defense attorneys argued that Alsup returned to the house and found Snow’s body. Alsup, who has several convictions for assault, feared he might be blamed for the murder, so he hid her body.
“The evidence and facts point to the defendant,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Stacey Borgman told jurors. It is implausible that Alsup “thought he would get in trouble, so he cleaned up someone else’s mess,” Borgman said.
Alsup returned to the Flavel house just past midnight on March 21, 2024 and set the shed on fire using gasoline as an accelerant. Fire investigators immediately found Snow’s remains. Her death was ruled a homicide.
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.
Alsup’s physical and digital DNA “was all over that crime scene,” Borgman said.
The District Attorney’s Office thanks the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and Det. Alex Monarch for their thorough and tireless work investigating these crimes and assisting with this prosecution.
Last year, Alsup was convicted of Assault in the Second Degree for beating up a Washington County Jail inmate while Alsup was being held there on a different charge. He was sentenced to 70 months in prison.
In 2014, Alsup was convicted in Multnomah County on two counts of Assault in the Second Degree for beating two women and received a 100-month prison sentence.
Kidnapping and sodomy charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement.
Alsup was convicted of Assault in the Third Degree in 2012. He was convicted of Arson in the Second Degree in 2011 after attempting to set five cars on fire.
Clackamas County Circuit Court case 24CR30618
