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Who Was Kenny Fandrich & What Happened to Him? 2026 Update & Profile

Ryan Gill

Kenneth “Kenny” Fandrich was a 56-year-old Oregon tradesman whose murder became the focus of the 48 Hours episode “Murder in the Parking Garage.” A contract pipe fitter working at Intel’s Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Fandrich was found dead inside his car on January 27, 2023. The scene at first offered few signs of what had happened, but investigators uncovered evidence of a planned killing tied to a stalking campaign that had followed Kenny and his wife, Tanya Fandrich, for years.

The investigation led to veterinarian Dr. Steven Neil Milner, Tanya’s former employer and a man with whom she had once had an affair. By the time Kenny was killed, he had obtained a stalking protective order against Milner and authorities had documented allegations involving GPS trackers, surveillance and repeated appearances near Kenny’s home and workplace. Prosecutors said Milner refused to leave the Fandrich family alone and developed a plan that ended with Kenny’s murder inside an Intel parking garage.

Who Was Kenneth “Kenny” Fandrich?

Kenneth Carl Fandrich, known as Kenny, was 56 years old when he was killed. He had spent much of his working life in skilled trades and took on demanding jobs. Before his work as a contract pipe fitter, Kenny had experience as an underwater welder and scuba diver connected with the commercial fishing industry in Alaska.

Kenny met Tanya while living and working in Alaska. According to accounts of their relationship, Tanya was working at a bank when they met through a mutual friend. Their relationship developed and the couple married in 1993. They later moved to Oregon, where they established their home and built a life together.

Animals formed an important part of that life. Kenny and Tanya kept several animals at their property, including dogs and cats. That shared interest would become connected to another important figure in their lives when Tanya began working at a veterinary clinic operated by Steven Milner.

By January 2023, Kenny was working as a contract pipe fitter at Intel’s Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, west of Portland. His job placed him at the corporate campus where Milner would later carry out the plan that prosecutors said he had developed over a period of months.

Tanya Fandrich’s Relationship With Steven Milner Creates Conflict

Steven Milner was a licensed veterinarian who operated a practice in Oregon City. Tanya worked for him for years, and the professional relationship developed into an affair. Kenny learned about the relationship, creating conflict between the two men.

Tanya ended her relationship with Milner. Prosecutors said that instead of accepting the breakup, Milner became obsessed with her and began stalking both Tanya and Kenny. The dispute therefore continued long after the affair itself had ended.

For Kenny, the situation developed from a personal conflict into a security concern. Evidence later presented by authorities showed that the Fandrich family had reason to believe Milner was monitoring their movements.

The stalking did not consist of unwanted messages alone. Authorities documented conduct involving physical surveillance, appearances at the Fandrich property and electronic tracking devices attached to vehicles.

Kenny Discovers GPS Tracking Devices on the Family’s Vehicles

One of the most concerning developments involved GPS trackers. Kenny and Tanya discovered tracking devices that had been attached to their vehicles. The devices allowed someone to follow their movements without needing to remain within sight of them.

Home surveillance also captured conduct associated with Milner. According to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office, video showed him entering the Fandrich property. The combination of GPS tracking and physical surveillance contributed to Kenny’s attempts to use the legal system to stop the conduct.

Kenny eventually obtained a stalking protective order against Milner in March 2022. The order followed years of harassment, according to prosecutors. Police officers had also warned Milner to stop following Kenny.

The protective order established a legal boundary. Prosecutors said Milner ignored it.

A Protective Order Fails to End the Stalking

Even after Kenny obtained the stalking protective order, investigators said Milner continued monitoring him. Another GPS tracking device was placed on one of the Fandrich vehicles, and Milner continued following Kenny.

Prosecutors later said Milner followed Kenny to his Oregon City home and to Intel’s Ronler Acres campus more than a dozen times. His conduct resulted in criminal charges in Clackamas County.

Milner was released under conditions while that criminal case was pending. According to prosecutors, he continued stalking Kenny despite the charge and protective order.

This history became important after Kenny’s death. Investigators were not trying to determine whether a stranger had selected Kenny at random. They already had evidence of a man who had followed him, tracked his vehicles, appeared at his property and been subjected to a court order intended to stop contact with him.

Prosecutors Say Milner Begins Planning a More Covert Operation

Authorities said Milner changed his methods during the months before the murder. In October 2022, he purchased another vehicle through Craigslist. Prosecutors said the purpose was to allow him to continue watching Kenny at Intel without using a vehicle that could be connected to him.

On December 13, 2022, a disguised person entered the Intel parking structure where Kenny parked. Surveillance cameras captured the person spraying paint over several security cameras, including cameras covering the area where Kenny usually left his vehicle.

No murder took place that day. After Kenny was killed the following month, investigators concluded that the December incident had served another purpose.

Prosecutors characterized it as a test of Intel’s security system. They said Milner wanted to determine what would happen when the cameras were disabled and whether security personnel would detect the interference.

Kenny’s Work Routine Is Studied Before His Murder

Prosecutors said Milner returned to the Intel parking structure after the December incident and watched Kenny’s movements. The visits allowed him to learn when Kenny arrived, where he parked and when he left work.

Milner obtained another vehicle in early January 2023, according to prosecutors. Authorities said the vehicle was purchased using a false identity. Investigators came to describe vehicles used in the operation as “burner cars,” comparing them with burner phones that can be used and discarded without creating an immediate connection to their user.

The evidence suggested that Kenny’s routine had become part of the murder planning. His workplace offered Milner a location where he could predict when Kenny would be separated from his home and family.

The parking garage also offered concealment, but it created another problem for anyone planning a crime. Intel maintained an extensive network of surveillance cameras.

What Happened to Kenny Fandrich on January 27, 2023?

Kenny went to work at Intel on January 27, 2023. Prosecutors said Milner also arrived at the parking structure that day while wearing a disguise.

According to the prosecution’s reconstruction, Milner waited for Kenny to park and enter the Intel campus. He then spray-painted cameras around Kenny’s vehicle with blue paint. The method echoed the camera vandalism from December.

Milner left and returned using a maroon minivan, prosecutors said. He parked the minivan beside Kenny’s car and waited inside.

Kenny eventually finished his shift and returned to the parking garage. He had no apparent way of knowing that someone was waiting for him inside the vehicle parked nearby.

Kenny Is Ambushed Near His Car

Prosecutors said Milner attacked Kenny from behind after he reached his vehicle. Investigators determined that Kenny was pulled into the maroon minivan.

Police believed Kenny was killed inside the van. According to the prosecution, Milner placed Kenny in a chokehold during the attack. The force caused severe injuries to Kenny’s neck and spine.

Investigators concluded that Milner then removed Kenny’s body from the minivan and placed him back inside his own vehicle. Kenny was positioned in the driver’s seat.

His belongings were arranged around him. Prosecutors argued that the staging was intended to create the appearance that Kenny had returned to his car and suffered a natural medical emergency.

Tanya Realizes Kenny Has Not Come Home

When Kenny did not return home, Tanya became concerned. The couple shared their phone locations, which helped establish that Kenny’s phone remained at the Intel campus.

The search led to the parking garage. Police found Kenny sitting inside his vehicle on the second level.

At first glance, the scene did not reveal the violence that had occurred. Kenny appeared as though he could have been sitting or sleeping inside the car. There was no obvious murder scene surrounding the vehicle.

A closer examination changed that conclusion. Investigators and the medical examiner found evidence showing that Kenny had suffered fatal trauma rather than dying from natural causes.

An Autopsy Reveals Kenny Was Murdered

The autopsy exposed the attempt to disguise Kenny’s death. The medical examiner identified injuries to his neck and spine and determined that he died from blunt and compressive trauma to the neck.

Those findings were consistent with a violent physical assault. They also forced investigators to reconsider the positioning of Kenny’s body.

If Kenny had suffered his fatal injuries elsewhere and then been placed into the driver’s seat, the apparently quiet scene inside his car was not the location of the attack. It was a staged scene.

Police began reconstructing what had happened before Kenny was placed there. Intel’s surveillance system provided the next major breakthrough.

The Killer Tries to Blind Intel’s Cameras

Investigators reviewed footage from hundreds of cameras around the Intel campus. They discovered images of a masked man wearing a hard hat, tinted glasses and a face covering.

The man carried blue spray paint and moved around the garage spraying surveillance-camera lenses. Cameras surrounding Kenny’s vehicle were among those targeted.

The plan was imperfect. Paint did not completely block every camera. Other cameras elsewhere on the property remained operational.

Investigators therefore possessed fragments of video that could be combined into a larger timeline. Instead of eliminating the surveillance evidence, the camera sabotage became evidence of preparation.

Surveillance Footage Reveals the Maroon Minivan

One of the most important discoveries was the maroon minivan. Investigators followed the vehicle through surveillance footage around the campus.

The minivan entered the area near Kenny’s car. Police concluded that the killer waited inside it until Kenny returned from work.

Investigators believed Kenny was dragged into the minivan during the attack. That made the vehicle one of the most important pieces of evidence in the entire investigation.

Detective Devin Rigo later described the minivan as the investigation’s main crime scene. If police could find it, forensic testing could reveal what had happened inside.

Kenny’s Stalking History Points Police Toward Steven Milner

Tanya provided investigators with a significant lead on the night Kenny was found. She told them her husband had a stalker and identified Steven Milner.

That information gave police an immediate avenue of investigation. Detectives examined the history between Kenny and Milner, including the affair with Tanya, the protective order, GPS trackers and previous police contacts.

They also examined Milner’s movements and vehicles.

The pieces began to overlap. Investigators connected Milner to vehicles used during the surveillance of Kenny, including the maroon minivan that appeared around the time of the murder.

Police Discover the Minivan Has Been Abandoned

Investigators obtained the minivan’s vehicle identification number. The vehicle had previously attracted attention while sitting in a Home Depot parking lot, creating a record that detectives could use to trace it.

Police distributed the VIN to agencies around the region. An alert from the Oregon Department of Transportation revealed what had happened to the vehicle.

The minivan had been found abandoned along Interstate 5 in North Portland days after Kenny’s murder. It had been towed from the roadside.

By the time detectives identified the towing company, however, the van had been sold to a scrap metal business.

Detectives Arrive Too Late to Recover the Crime Scene

Detective Rigo raced to the scrapyard in hopes of recovering the minivan before it was destroyed.

He was too late.

The scrapyard showed him footage of the vehicle being picked up and crushed. Investigators had missed their opportunity to preserve it by about a week.

The destruction meant detectives could not search the interior for Kenny’s blood, DNA, fibers or other evidence that could have documented the attack. One of the case’s potential sources of forensic evidence had disappeared.

Investigators had to build their case without the vehicle they believed contained the primary murder scene.

DNA From Kenny’s Hands Links Him to Milner

Police had another source of forensic evidence: Kenny himself.

Swabs collected from Kenny’s hands were submitted for DNA testing. The results detected Steven Milner’s DNA.

The finding placed the two men in physical contact. When combined with the surveillance evidence and stalking history, it became an important part of the case against Milner.

Milner was arrested and charged with Kenny’s murder. The question at trial would not become whether Milner had been at the parking garage. He eventually admitted that he was there.

Instead, he offered a different explanation for why Kenny died.

Milner Claims Kenny Attacked Him

Steven Milner’s murder trial began in Washington County in January 2025. He chose to testify in his own defense.

Milner acknowledged important elements of the prosecution’s case. He admitted that he had gone to Intel and spray-painted the surveillance cameras. He also admitted waiting for Kenny.

Milner claimed that the fatal confrontation resulted from self-defense. According to his version of events, Kenny attacked him and he responded because he feared Kenny would hurt him.

The defense therefore asked jurors to distinguish between Milner’s actions before the encounter and his intentions during the physical confrontation.

Prosecutors Argue Kenny’s Murder Was Planned

Prosecutors argued that the events leading to Kenny’s death contradicted Milner’s self-defense claim.

Milner had been stalking Kenny despite a protective order. He had obtained vehicles that prosecutors said were intended to conceal his activities. Someone in disguise had spray-painted Intel cameras in December 2022. Milner returned to the property on January 27 wearing a disguise and again disabled cameras.

He then waited for Kenny to finish work.

The prosecution argued that these were preparations for a murder rather than circumstances surrounding an unexpected confrontation. The state also pointed to the injuries to Kenny’s neck and spine and the staging of his body after the killing.

The jury ultimately agreed.

Steven Milner Is Convicted of Murdering Kenny Fandrich

On January 22, 2025, a Washington County jury found Steven Neil Milner guilty of second-degree murder in Kenny Fandrich’s death.

Jurors also convicted Milner of stalking and seven counts of violating a stalking protective order. The verdict rejected his claim that Kenny’s death resulted from lawful self-defense.

The convictions connected the murder to the years of conduct that preceded it. The stalking offenses were not separate background details. They documented the progression of Milner’s conduct toward Kenny before the killing.

Kenny had sought protection through police and the courts. He had obtained an order intended to stop Milner from following him. Despite those measures, prosecutors proved that Milner continued the conduct and eventually killed him.

Milner Is Sentenced to Life in Prison

Milner was sentenced on February 18, 2025. He received life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for Kenny’s murder.

The sentence brought the criminal prosecution to a close more than two years after Kenny was found inside the Intel parking garage.

For Tanya and those who knew Kenny, however, the conviction could not reverse what had happened. The years of stalking had ended in the outcome Kenny had sought legal protection to prevent.

His case also raised questions about how authorities and courts respond when stalking continues despite protective orders, criminal charges and repeated warnings.

Kenny Had Tried to Protect Himself Before His Death

One of the defining facts of Kenny Fandrich’s case is that the danger had been documented before he was killed.

Kenny had recognized the stalking. He had reported it. GPS trackers had been discovered. Police had become involved. He obtained a stalking protective order. Milner had faced criminal charges related to his conduct.

None of those measures ended the threat.

Instead, prosecutors said Milner adapted his methods. He used different vehicles, watched Kenny’s workplace, studied the surveillance system and attempted to conceal his movements. The escalation ended with Kenny being ambushed after work.

Kenny Fandrich’s Murder Becomes the Focus of 48 Hours

Kenny’s story is at the center of the 48 Hours episode “Murder in the Parking Garage,” reported by Natalie Morales. The episode examines not only the murder but the detective work required to reconstruct a crime designed to leave little evidence behind.

The investigation became a case built from pieces. Surveillance cameras captured only portions of the killer’s activity. The suspected primary crime scene was crushed before police could examine it. Detectives instead relied on the remaining footage, vehicle records, the history of stalking, GPS evidence, forensic testing and Milner’s own actions.

The case also contains a striking contradiction. Milner went to considerable lengths to prevent Intel’s cameras from documenting the crime, yet his attempts to disable those cameras helped establish that the killing involved preparation. The blue paint, disguises and earlier camera sabotage became part of the evidence against him.

For Kenny Fandrich, the murder was the final act in a conflict that had moved far beyond an affair involving his wife. By January 2023, he had spent years dealing with a man authorities said tracked his movements and ignored legal efforts to make him stop. Kenny was 56 when he was killed. More than two years later, the man responsible was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The encore of 48 Hours: “Murder in the Parking Garage” airs Saturday, August 15, 2026, at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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