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“Murder in the Parking Garage”: 48 Hours Investigates the Kenny Fandrich Homicide on August 15 2026

by · August 13, 2026

CBS’s 48 Hours presents “Murder in the Parking Garage” on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. The encore revisits the murder of Kenneth “Kenny” Fandrich, a contract pipe fitter whose body was found inside his car at an Intel parking garage in Hillsboro, Oregon, on January 27, 2023. Correspondent Natalie Morales examines a case built from surveillance footage, a history of stalking, GPS tracking devices, two “burner” vehicles, DNA evidence and a killer’s failed effort to disable a sophisticated security system.

The investigation led police to Dr. Steven Neil Milner, a veterinarian who had once had an affair with Kenny’s wife, Tanya Fandrich. Prosecutors said Milner developed an obsession after the relationship ended and spent years stalking the couple. That conduct continued despite police intervention, criminal charges and a court order intended to keep him away. In January 2025, a Washington County jury convicted Milner of second-degree murder, stalking and seven counts of violating a stalking protective order. He was sentenced to life in prison on February 18, 2025, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Kenny Fandrich Is Found Dead at the Intel Campus

Kenneth Fandrich was 56 when his life ended inside a parking structure at Intel’s Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro. He worked at the facility as a contract pipe fitter. On January 27, 2023, Tanya became concerned when her husband failed to return home. The couple shared their phone locations, allowing her to trace Kenny’s phone to the Intel property.

Tanya went to the campus, where police began searching the parking garage. They found Kenny inside his vehicle on the second level. He was sitting in the driver’s seat with little blood or other visible evidence that would suggest a violent attack. Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo told 48 Hours that the scene created immediate questions because Kenny appeared at first to have suffered a medical event. An autopsy changed that assessment. The medical examiner determined that he died from blunt and compressive trauma to the neck. His neck and spine showed injuries consistent with a violent assault.

The condition of Kenny’s body also suggested that someone had arranged the scene. Investigators came to believe that his killer had returned him to the driver’s seat after killing him elsewhere, creating the appearance of a natural death. The location presented another challenge. Intel maintained hundreds of cameras around the campus, including cameras covering the parking structure where Kenny had left his car.

Police now faced two related questions. They needed to determine who wanted Kenny dead and how that person could commit a murder inside a corporate parking garage covered by a large surveillance network without creating an obvious video record.

Security Cameras Reveal a Masked Man in Disguise

Intel security personnel gave detectives access to recordings from the campus camera system. The footage showed that someone had taken steps to prevent those cameras from documenting the crime. During the morning of January 27, a man wearing a hard hat, tinted glasses and a face covering moved through the parking structure carrying blue spray paint.

The masked man targeted cameras near the area where Kenny parked his vehicle. Investigators counted about six or seven cameras that had been sprayed. The paint blocked part of their view, but the effort failed to eliminate the evidence. Some cameras were untouched, while paint on others did not cover the entire lens. Investigators could still make out pieces of activity around Kenny’s car.

The disguise and camera sabotage became central parts of the prosecution’s case. The person responsible had not entered the garage, encountered Kenny and reacted during an unplanned confrontation. Someone had arrived with clothing designed to conceal his identity and equipment meant to interfere with surveillance.

The amount of preparation raised another issue. The killer appeared to know which cameras needed to be disabled and where Kenny was expected to park. Detectives began examining Intel records and past incidents at the garage to determine whether the January 27 camera sabotage had happened before.

An Earlier Camera Attack Reveals Signs of Planning

Investigators discovered that cameras inside the same parking structure had been spray-painted on December 13, 2022, more than a month before Kenny’s death. At the time, the incident had been treated as criminal mischief. No suspect had been identified.

Once Kenny was murdered, the December incident took on a different meaning. Surveillance footage from that day showed a person in a construction-style disguise interfering with cameras near the section Kenny used. Prosecutors later argued that Steven Milner had used the December visit as a test of Intel’s security response.

According to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office, Milner returned to the Intel parking structure on multiple occasions after the December camera incident. Prosecutors said he watched Kenny’s routine and studied when he entered and left work. The conduct formed part of their argument that the murder resulted from preparation that stretched across weeks rather than a chance meeting between the two men.

The December episode also gave detectives material they could compare with footage from the day of the murder. Clothing, movements, the hard hat and other visual details allowed investigators to examine whether the same person had participated in both incidents.

A Maroon Minivan Emerges From the Surveillance Footage

The camera network produced another major clue. Detectives saw an older maroon Dodge minivan enter the Intel parking garage during the afternoon of January 27. The vehicle had no front license plate. Investigators followed its path across cameras until it disappeared into the area covered by spray-painted lenses.

Enough remained visible beneath the blue paint for investigators to make out the minivan pulling into a space beside Kenny’s vehicle. Police concluded that the killer waited inside the van for Kenny to finish his shift. When Kenny returned to his car, investigators believed he was attacked and pulled into the minivan.

Investigators concluded that Kenny was killed inside the minivan. Police believed his neck was broken during the attack and that his body was moved back into his own car after his death. His belongings were placed around him in a manner intended to support the appearance that he had suffered a natural medical emergency.

The minivan left the parking structure after the killing. Finding the vehicle became a priority because detectives believed it represented the main crime scene. Blood, fibers, fingerprints or DNA could have provided evidence about the attack and confirmed who had been inside it.

Tanya Fandrich Tells Police Her Husband Had a Stalker

The investigation changed direction during the first night when Tanya told detectives that Kenny had a stalker. She identified the man as her former employer, veterinarian Steven Milner.

Tanya had worked for Milner as a veterinary technician. During that employment, the two entered into an intimate relationship. Kenny learned of the affair, creating conflict between him and Milner. Tanya ended her relationship with Milner, but prosecutors said Milner did not accept the end of the relationship and began targeting both Tanya and Kenny.

Milner had built a successful veterinary career and had significant financial resources. People who had known him through his practice later expressed disbelief that the veterinarian they knew could become a murder defendant. For investigators, however, Tanya’s disclosure provided an immediate suspect with a documented history involving Kenny.

That history did not depend on suspicion after Kenny’s death. Kenny had spent years trying to stop Milner’s conduct through police reports, legal action and a stalking protective order.

GPS Trackers and Home Surveillance Document Years of Stalking

The evidence of stalking stretched across a long period. Kenny and Tanya discovered GPS tracking devices attached to their vehicles. Their home surveillance system also captured conduct that prosecutors connected to Milner, including a person entering their property and hiding around the couple’s vehicles.

In March 2022, Kenny obtained a stalking protective order against Milner. The Washington County District Attorney’s Office said the order followed years of harassment and the discovery of multiple GPS devices. Police had warned Milner to stop following Kenny. Despite the court order, prosecutors said the conduct continued.

Milner installed another tracking device and followed Kenny to his Oregon City home and his workplace at Intel more than a dozen times, according to prosecutors. The conduct led to a criminal case in Clackamas County. Milner was released while that case remained pending.

The criminal charge did not stop the surveillance. Prosecutors said Milner continued following Kenny while on conditional release. That history became important at trial because it placed the January 2023 murder within an established pattern of conduct rather than presenting the two men as participants in an isolated dispute.

Milner Buys Vehicles to Conceal His Movements

Prosecutors said Milner took further steps in late 2022 to hide his surveillance. In October, he purchased an additional vehicle through Craigslist. Investigators believed the vehicle allowed him to watch Kenny at Intel without using the vehicle people associated with him.

In January 2023, Milner obtained another vehicle using a false identity, according to the district attorney’s account. Investigators came to describe these vehicles as “burner cars,” borrowing a term associated with disposable phones. The vehicles could be parked away from Milner’s home and used without creating an immediate connection to him.

Police found evidence connecting Milner to both the maroon minivan and another vehicle that had spent long periods parked at a Home Depot. The minivan’s vehicle identification number had been recorded after it attracted attention there. Surveillance showed it leaving the Home Depot lot before Kenny’s murder.

That VIN gave detectives a way to search for the van after the killing. They sent information to law enforcement agencies and transportation authorities across the area in hope that the vehicle had appeared in a police report, tow record or other official database.

Detectives Race to Save the Minivan From a Scrapyard

The search produced a match. The Oregon Department of Transportation had information showing that the minivan was found along Interstate 5 in North Portland days after the murder. Police believed Milner had abandoned it there.

A towing company removed the minivan. Before investigators knew where it had gone, the tow company sold it to a scrap metal business. Detective Devin Rigo contacted the company and rushed to the scrapyard in an attempt to preserve what investigators believed could contain some of the strongest forensic evidence in the case.

He arrived too late. The minivan had been crushed. Rigo was shown footage of the vehicle being lifted and destroyed. He later said investigators had missed it by about a week.

The loss created a major problem for the prosecution. If Kenny had been killed inside the van, it could have contained physical evidence from both men and evidence showing how the assault occurred. Prosecutors would have to prove the murder without the vehicle that they considered the primary crime scene.

A Search of Milner’s Home Reveals Evidence of Fixation

Police continued examining Milner’s relationship with Tanya after his arrest. A search of his home uncovered items that investigators interpreted as evidence that his attachment to her had continued long after their relationship ended.

Detectives found personal keepsakes connected to Tanya, including photographs and notes. The collection helped investigators assess the relationship between Milner and the Fandrich family and supported the prosecution’s account of a fixation that continued after Tanya left him. CBS reported that investigators viewed the material as more than a small group of mementos from an old relationship.

The material did not prove the murder by itself. Its importance came from the broader pattern prosecutors presented. Milner had been involved with Tanya. The relationship ended. Kenny obtained protection from Milner. GPS trackers appeared on the Fandrich vehicles. Milner continued visiting Kenny’s workplace. Cameras near Kenny’s parking area were sabotaged in December. The same type of sabotage occurred on the day Kenny died.

That pattern allowed prosecutors to construct a motive and timeline even without the minivan. Detectives then received forensic results that placed Milner in direct physical contact with Kenny.

DNA on Kenny’s Hands Gives Police a Forensic Link

Investigators had collected swabs from Kenny’s hands during the examination of his body. Laboratory testing identified Steven Milner’s DNA on Kenny’s hands. Detective Rigo described the result as a major development because it created a physical connection between Milner and Kenny at a time when Milner had no apparent reason to have recent contact with him.

The DNA carried greater weight when considered with the surveillance evidence. Police had video of a masked person sabotaging cameras, records of vehicles connected to Milner, evidence of his visits to Intel and a history of stalking between the men.

Milner would later provide an explanation for the DNA. He admitted at trial that he had been at the Intel garage and had physical contact with Kenny. The defense shifted from disputing his presence to arguing over why the confrontation occurred and whether the killing constituted murder or self-defense.

That admission placed the central question before the jury. Prosecutors no longer needed to prove that Milner had never encountered Kenny. They needed to prove that Milner went to the garage with a plan to kill him.

Prosecutors Reconstruct the Murder of Kenny Fandrich

The Washington County District Attorney’s Office presented a detailed reconstruction of January 27, 2023. Prosecutors said Milner entered the parking structure in disguise and waited until Kenny parked and went inside the Intel facility.

Milner then spray-painted surveillance cameras around Kenny’s parking area. Prosecutors said he left and returned in a second vehicle, the maroon minivan, which he parked next to Kenny’s car. He remained inside the vehicle and waited for Kenny to finish work.

When Kenny returned, prosecutors said Milner ambushed him from behind and placed him in a chokehold. Kenny was dragged into the van and suffered fatal injuries to his neck and spine. Police believed Milner then moved Kenny back into his own car.

Kenny’s body and belongings were arranged to give the impression that he had died without violence. The apparent staging explained why the first view of the scene produced few signs of a struggle. The autopsy exposed the deception when doctors found the injuries to Kenny’s neck.

Steven Milner Takes the Stand and Claims Self-Defense

Steven Milner went on trial in Washington County on January 13, 2025. Senior Deputy District Attorney John Gerhard and Deputy District Attorney Mahalee Streblow prosecuted the case before Judge Erik Buchér.

Milner took the stand in his own defense. He admitted that he had spray-painted the Intel security cameras and acknowledged that he went to the parking garage and waited for Kenny. Those admissions confirmed significant portions of the prosecution’s evidence. His disagreement concerned what happened when Kenny returned.

Milner claimed that Kenny attacked him and that he acted in self-defense. He testified about a confrontation near the vehicle and argued that Kenny’s death resulted from his response to that attack.

Prosecutors challenged the account by comparing it with the physical injuries, surveillance evidence and Milner’s preparations before the encounter. They asked jurors to consider why a person acting without homicidal intent would disguise himself, disable cameras, use vehicles intended to conceal his identity and wait at the workplace of a man he had been ordered not to stalk.

Prosecutors Point to Planning Before the Killing

The state’s case depended on more than the fatal encounter. Prosecutors presented the months before the murder as evidence of intent.

Milner had appeared at Intel before January 27. Cameras had been spray-painted in December. Prosecutors said he studied the security response, watched Kenny’s work patterns and obtained vehicles that could not be connected to him through a quick visual check. On the day of the murder, he returned in disguise and targeted surveillance cameras for a second time.

Those actions presented a problem for the self-defense claim. The jury had to consider whether Milner’s conduct fit a person who went to the parking structure without plans for violence and then found himself under attack.

The state also argued that Milner’s version of the physical confrontation did not account for Kenny’s injuries. Prosecutors emphasized the broken neck and the evidence of blunt and compressive trauma. They presented the staging of Kenny’s body as another sign of consciousness of guilt.

A Jury Convicts Steven Milner of Murder and Stalking

After hearing the evidence and Milner’s testimony, jurors rejected his self-defense claim. On January 22, 2025, after about six hours of deliberations, the Washington County jury found him guilty of second-degree murder.

The jury also convicted him of stalking and seven counts of violating the stalking protective order. The verdict confirmed the prosecution’s central claim that Kenny’s death represented the final act in a long course of stalking conduct.

The convictions also showed the role of evidence that might have looked minor when viewed alone. A damaged camera, an unusual vehicle, an old vandalism report, a VIN recorded at a Home Depot and DNA recovered from Kenny’s hands became parts of the same case.

The cameras Milner attempted to defeat became some of the strongest witnesses against him. Even without a complete view of the attack, the footage established his preparations, movements and access to the parking area.

Steven Milner Receives a Life Sentence

Steven Milner returned to court for sentencing on February 18, 2025. Judge Erik Buchér sentenced him to life in prison for Kenny Fandrich’s murder. He is eligible to seek parole after serving 25 years. Reporting on the sentence states that if parole is granted on the murder sentence, additional prison time attached to the stalking-order violations would still apply.

Tanya provided a victim-impact statement at the sentencing hearing. She addressed the years of stalking and Milner’s refusal to stop after the affair had ended, after police intervention and after the protective order. Prosecutors portrayed the case as an example of the danger stalking can pose when conduct escalates over time.

Kenny’s attorney, Michael Fuller, also questioned whether existing legal measures had been capable of protecting him. Kenny had reported the conduct to police, hired an attorney and obtained a protective order. Milner continued to follow him. CBS reported that Fuller later filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of Kenny’s estate.

The criminal case ended with Milner’s conviction and life sentence, but the history leading to Kenny’s murder has remained a central part of the story. Authorities have pointed to the case as a warning that stalking behavior should be treated as a potential threat rather than dismissed as unwanted attention.

The Security System Milner Tried to Defeat Helped Expose Him

The title Murder in the Parking Garage reflects the setting that shaped both the crime and its investigation. Milner appeared to recognize that Intel’s cameras were a threat to any plan to confront Kenny without detection.

His response was to attack the surveillance system itself. He used blue spray paint, a disguise and vehicles intended to distance himself from the crime. He had tested camera sabotage weeks before the killing and returned to the garage to study Kenny’s routine, according to prosecutors.

Yet the surveillance system did not need to record every second of the murder to become useful evidence. Cameras captured the masked figure. Other cameras tracked the maroon minivan. Earlier recordings documented the December test. Investigators could compare movements across time and reconstruct how the operation had been planned.

The attempt to hide from the cameras became evidence of preparation. What Milner intended to remove from the case helped reveal the steps that led to Kenny’s death.

“Murder in the Parking Garage” Returns to 48 Hours

48 Hours: Murder in the Parking Garage brings together the pieces of an investigation that began with a staged death inside a car and expanded into the examination of years of stalking. Natalie Morales follows detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo as they work through Intel’s surveillance footage, trace Milner’s vehicles, search for the lost minivan and connect forensic evidence to a suspect Tanya had identified on the first night.

The case also examines the limits of the measures Kenny used in an attempt to protect himself. He reported Milner, obtained legal representation and secured a stalking protective order. Milner faced a criminal case over his conduct but continued following Kenny, according to prosecutors. The stalking ended with Kenny’s murder.

The case reached its criminal conclusion in 2025 when Milner was convicted of second-degree murder, stalking and seven violations of the protective order. He received a life sentence with parole eligibility after 25 years.

“Murder in the Parking Garage” airs Saturday, August 15, 2026, from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and is available to stream through Paramount+. The episode was first broadcast on October 4, 2025.

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