Detective Chris Wagner

The house was in extreme disarray.

I think we had close to 90 pieces of evidence.

It's quiet out where we are.

So when you hear police cars coming with sirens going, you know something's wrong.

As we're looking at Earl's house, in the middle is a large picture window.

That's the living room.

And the living room is where we found Earl, laying on the floor on his stomach.

His hands were bound with duct tape.

His feet had been bound with duct tape as well, but they had kind of worked that loose a little bit.

There was a circular pattern of blood around Earl that was on the carpeting.

It appeared that Earl had been alive for a while and had been trying to get up.

Earl Olander was a thriving, independent, 90-year-old farmer, and he was beloved by people that knew him, his community.

He was a bachelor and lived on that farm for, I think, almost his entire life and still lived alone in that home, was self-sufficient.

In the kitchen, there was a freshly baked blueberry pie on the counter, and that sticks with you.

He was gonna eat this pie, and he'll never do that.

Your heart goes out to Earl and what he must have been thinking and how he must have suffered.

And he looked very seriously at the other deputies that were there and said, we need to clear these buildings.

You can see all of these outbuildings, barns, and other buildings that were here.

We had to clear all of those to go through to make sure we didn't have anybody else.

We didn't really know what we had or how big our crime scene may have been.