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After nearly a year, child's remains identified and couple charged with murder

KLCC | By Brian Bull
Published December 1, 2021 at 12:42 PM PST
Haley Mae Coblentz (inset, left) next to Lincoln Co. approximation based on forensic examination (inset, right). Map shows H.B. Van Duzer Scenic Corridor where Coblentz's body was found.
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Haley Mae Coblentz (inset, left) next to Lincoln Co. approximation based on forensic examination (inset, right). Map shows H.B. Van Duzer Scenic Corridor where Coblentz's body was found.

A couple has been charged with aggravated murder, in a case involving a young girl’s body found in the H-B Van Duzer Scenic Corridor east of Lincoln City almost a year ago.

The child’s remains were found in a duffle bag on December 10th, 2020, outside a rest area. For months, investigators sought to identify the victim.

Then last October, DNA samples revealed the girl to be 9-year-old Haley Mae Coblentz. She lived with her biological mother, Shawna Browning, and her mother’s girlfriend, Lauren Harrison, across Oregon and other parts of the Pacific Northwest. She had not been reported as a missing person after her death.

Oregon State Police and the Detroit FBI located Browning and Harrison in Michigan. Both were arrested on a Lincoln County warrant and are being held without bail in Wayne County, Michigan.

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Crime, Law & Justice
Brian Bull
Brian Bull is a contributing freelance reporter with the KLCC News department, who first began working with the station in 2016. He's a senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and was recently a journalism professor at the University of Oregon.

In his nearly 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional),  the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from  the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
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