2A • January 19, 2018 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com
Surf Pines ‘Peeping Tom’ is
convicted on multiple counts
Cazee guilty on
23 counts
By Jack Heffernan
Seaside Signal
A Surf Pines man was
found guilty Jan. 5 of 23
charges stemming from sever-
al “peeping Tom” incidents in
his neighborhood.
Kirk Richard Cazee, 56,
peered through bedroom win-
dows and recorded videos of
residents during private mo-
ments, a jury found after a
four-day trial.
Cazee was convicted on
multiple counts of using a
child in a display of sexual
conduct, each of which carries
a minimum of nearly six years
in prison. He was also con-
victed of invasion of personal
privacy, stalking and criminal
trespass.
The Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Office had been investi-
gating a potential prowler in
the Surf Pines area, based on
numerous complaints from
residents, for more than a year
leading up to Cazee’s first ar-
rest in February. After being
released from jail on those
charges, he was arrested again
in April following further in-
vestigation by the sheriff’s
office.
The victims included sev-
eral young women — some
of whom were under 18 years
old — and one man. During
the trial, some of the vic-
tims — sometimes with tears
streaming down their faces —
recalled seeing a subject on
Kirk Richard Cazee
their property. A witness also
recounted confronting a shad-
owy figure from a distance in
his backyard before the man
ran away. Witnesses believed
Cazee was the prowler but
were unable to unequivocally
identify him.
Much of the case was
based on videos obtained
from Cazee’s phone. The vid-
eos often displayed the vic-
tims in a state of nudity and,
occasionally, performing sex-
ual acts. The videos do not re-
veal who took them, but they
at times appear to record the
voice of a man sexually pleas-
ing himself.
“How many other people
have video of the victims in
this case?” Chief Deputy Dis-
trict Attorney Ron Brown rhe-
torically asked the jury during
closing arguments.
Cazee was charged with
two counts of criminal tres-
pass after his original arrest.
Around 10 p.m. that night,
sheriff’s deputies found Cazee
walking in the area without a
flashlight minutes after yet
another complaint of a man
searching through windows.
Just before his arrest, deputies
found that Cazee was carrying
pair of binoculars and some
toilet paper.
Cazee told deputies that
he brought the binoculars to
observe wildlife, but Brown
called the optical aid one of the
“smoking guns” in the case.
“Good luck unless the
wildlife is standing under a
streetlight that doesn’t exist in
Surf Pines,” Brown said.
Following his release, dep-
uties arrested Cazee again in
April, and he has since been
held in jail on $2 million bail.
Brown also presented ev-
idence that Cazee, a surgical
nurse in Portland at the time,
had stolen mail from one of
the victims and kept it at his
Portland mobile home. Ca-
zee’s wife and son testified
that he often went for walks
by himself late at night.
One of the victims, due to
repeated suspicions of some-
one prowling outside her
home, placed a surveillance
camera outside her residence
in early 2017. That camera
footage, on two occasions,
displayed a man whose face
was not visible because his
hood was up.
The man was wearing a
camouflage jacket in one of
the videos. Cazee was wear-
ing a camouflage jacket at
the time of his arrest, though
attorneys debated whether the
jacket was the same one that
appeared in the video.
Lawyers also argued about
whether the various states of
nudity in the videos warrant-
ed certain charges and if Ca-
zee made sufficient contact
with the victim to justify the
stalking charges.
Ryan Colvin Connell, Ca-
zee’s Hillsboro-based attorney,
pointed out that a number of
victims recalled the peeper as
being “tall and skinny,” argu-
ing that his client’s appearance
could not be described as thin.
He also highlighted the fact
that there was no witness tes-
timony or physical evidence
conclusively proving that Ca-
zee recorded the videos.
“This case is a pretty clas-
sic example of a time when
the state is trying to make
evidence fit a specific person
as opposed to just following
the evidence,” Connell said
during closing arguments.
“When their witnesses say
there’s nothing here to say,
‘This person made this vid-
eo.’ If you say he does, you’re
speculating, you’re guessing,
you’re filling in blanks that
they’re saying is not full.”
But Brown likened his case
to that of a child caught at the
end of a trail of crumbs that
begin at an open cookie jar.
“You’ve got a trail of cir-
cumstances that leads you to
believe that a certain thing
happened,” Brown said.
At minimum, Cazee will be
sentenced to nearly 30 years
in prison for using a child in
a sexually explicit display. He
may face more prison time
depending on whether the
sentences are imposed con-
currently or consecutively. A
sentencing hearing has been
scheduled for February.
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Six people were arrested
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Officers from the Clat-
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ment complex where they
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Richard Paul Vogelsang,
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Jan. 1
12:15 a.m., 1800 block N.
Wahanna: A person is arrested
for driving under the influence
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charged with hit and run and
reckless driving.
2:04 a.m., 700 block Second
Avenue: A DUII is reported and
a subject is placed under arrest.
2:43 p.m., 2000 block N.
Holladay: A missing person was
reported.
7:26 p.m., 400 block N. Holl-
aday: Police responding to a
report of someone trying to
commit suicide by putting a
hose in a vehicle discover a per-
son siphoning gas from their
vehicle. Person tells them they
have no thought of self-harm.
Jan. 2
4:14 p.m., 12th and Franklin:
Police respond to a report of a
man using binoculars to look
into a yard. The man told police
he was minding his neighbor’s
bird feeder and is using binocu-
lars to monitor the situation.
6:10 p.m., Waterline: A de-
ceased person is reported.
8:49 p.m., 1900 block Spruce
Drive: A missing person is
reported.
7:27 a.m. Avenue A: A cardboard
box left behind in a parking ga-
rage was reported as suspicious.
Officers responding determine
the box is empty and of no harm.
Jan. 4
8:19 a.m. 500 block S. Cottage,
Gearhart: Subject reported a
male with a rifle standing in a
driveway in a ghillie camou-
flage suit. Officers contacted
complainant and searched the
driveway. The subject who was
wearing hunting camouflage
that made him look like a bush
admitted to recent use of
methamphetamine and agreed
to go home and try to sleep.
9:13 a.m., 600 block Pacific
Way, Gearhart: The subject is
transported to the hospital for
detox.
3:53 p.m., 100 block Fourth
Avenue: Police respond to a
report of a woman lying on
the side of the road. Officers
responding found no one lying
by the side of the road.
5:54 p.m., Beach Drive and
Ocean Vista: Police assist a
person who forgot where they
parked their car.
Jan. 5
Jan. 3
12:20 p.m. 700 block N.
Wahanna: Dog offenses were
reported.
2:21 a.m. 300 block N. Prom:
An assault in the fourth degree
is reported. Also reported are
strangulation and harassment.
1;28 p.m., The Retreat: A
female pedestrian said to be
weaving in and out of traffic
was advised people were com-
plaining about her behavior.
1:43 p.m. Police headquarters:
Someone came in for their
annual sex offender registry.
3:45 p.m., 1200 block Avenue
E: Someone who reported
a theft from in front of their
house did not respond when
police went to the residence.
A message was left for the
reporting party.
Jan. 6
12:15 a.m., 400 block S. Roos-
evelt: Police give a courtesy ride
to a motel to a woman who
said she’d had an argument
with her boyfriend and had
left the residence without her
purse. Police returned with her
to the residence so she could
retrieve the purse.
6:41 p.m., 400 block S. Columbia:
A father/son disagreement that
escalated into a police call was
quieted down when police ar-
rived. The father said the son had
left the premises for the evening.
Jan. 7
3:08 p.m. 2500 block S. Roos-
evelt: Police assist Medix with a
combative patient.
4:16 p.m., Avenue U: Police
respond to a report of a couple
fighting; the man is reported to
have kicked his dog. Police are
unable to locate either subjects
or the dog.
Jan. 8
12:03 p.m., 1100 block 11th
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accident on Highway 26. The
matter was turned over to
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Jan. 10
1:45 a.m., Goodman Park: A
person running a generator
and creating unnecessary noise
was warned. They agreed to
turn it off.
9:03 a.m., 700 block S. Wah-
anna: A person is arrested on a
warrant.
1:10 p.m., Avenue A: Police
speak with a woman who ap-
pears to have been abandoned
by her family members. She
told police she saw someone in
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