California man charged with killing adoptive mother


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ROSEBURG — A Douglas County grand jury has indicted Gabriel Scott Riley, 29, on charges including murder, in the death of his adoptive mother and an attack on his adoptive father.

He is charged with killing Lindi Riley and trying to kill Craig Riley before setting their Sutherlin home on fire March 10.

He fought extradition from Palm Springs, Calif., where he was arrested hours after police responded to a 911 call from his parents’ home. He is held without bail in the Douglas County jail on charges of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, assault and arson.

The death of Lindi Riley, 57, a popular Sutherlin Middle School counselor, shocked the town of 7,660 north of Roseburg.

Craig Riley, 56, was treated for a knife wound to the neck and burns. He identified his adopted son as the attacker.

The couple adopted Gabriel Riley, a troubled teen, after Lindi met him through the school where she worked for 26 years.

Gabriel Riley was arrested March 10 without incident leaving a plane in Palm Springs, where he lived with his wife and two daughters.

Police records show that Craig Riley called 911 early that day, saying an intruder had cut his neck, and that he could smell smoke and hear fire alarms in the house.

Authorities saw three separate fires as they approached the home. A trail of blood led from the carport to the front door and blood was smeared on the door knob. Officers found Craig Riley on the kitchen floor holding a bloody towel to his neck. He told officers nobody else was in the house but as he was being placed in an ambulance, he said there was. But the fire was too big to allow re-entry, and Lindi Riley’s body was found in a bedroom after it was out.
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Samuel wrote on Jun 28, 2008 11:06 AM:

This story has an inconsistency in it and it is the fact that he caught a flight so quickly down to Palm Springs California. He would have had to leave out of Eugene Airport being that was the closest and even to get there from Sutherlin takes damn near an hour to get there by car! I do not think that this was investigated fully. Unless he had a direct flight to Palm Springs, it would have taken at least two hours if not three to get back home. Police Agencies do not respond that fast either. I am sure they could have made the plane turn around in midflight so that he could have been arrested in Oregon instead of California where he can tie up the system with an extradition fight as well and add to the taxpayers bill. Something with this story does not add up to me. If he is guilty and they have the evidence, then fine! But this happened a bit to fast in order for them to have the justification to believe right away that he did it.


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