HILLSBORO Ore. (KPTV) – The Oregon City veterinarian accused of murdering a man at an Intel parking garage in Hillsboro was found guilty on Wednesday, according to the Washington Co. District Attorney’s Office.

A Washington County jury found Steven Neil Milner guilty of choking Kenneth Fandrich to death on Jan. 27, 2023 at the Intel facility where Fandrich worked as a contractor, after Milner had stalked and harassed Fandrich for several years.

According to court documents, Milner had an affair with a longtime employee, who was married to Fandrich. After Fandrich learned of her affair with Milner, Fandrich’s wife broke it off.

Milner responded by stalking Fandrich and his wife.

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In March 2022, Fandrich was granted a stalking protective order. According to court documents, this order followed years of harassment which included finding numerous GPS tracking devices that Milner had attached to Fandrich and his wife’s cars, and collecting home surveillance video showing Milner sneaking onto their property.

Despite the order, Milner installed another GPS tracking device on Fandrich’s car and followed him to his Oregon City home and, “more than a dozen times,” to his workplace at Intel Ronler Acres in Hillsboro, according to the DA’s office.

Milner was criminally charged in Clackamas County for breaking the court order, but continued to do so while on conditional release, the DA said.

October 2022, Milner bought a different car through Craigslist to more covertly follow Fandrich to his Hillsboro workplace.

On Dec. 13, 2022, Intel surveillance cameras showed Milner at the parking structure in disguise. While there, he used spray paint to cover several security cameras, including those watching where Fandrich usually parked, to test Intel’s security.

Over the next several weeks, Milner repeatedly showed up in the Intel parking structure to watch Fandrich’s patterns as he came and went from work.

In early January 2023, Milner purchased a second car under a false identity – a minivan, which he used to continue watching Fandrich in the Intel parking structure.

On Jan. 27, 2023, Milner used both cars for his murder plan, the DA said.

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First, Milner entered the parking structure in disguise and waited for Fandrich to park his car and walk inside. Then, Milner again spray-painted the security cameras around Fandrich’s car.

Milner left the scene and returned in the recently purchased minivan, which he parked next to Fandrich’s car. He waited in the van until Fandrich got off work.

When Fandrich reached his car, Milner ambushed him from behind and grabbed him in a chokehold. After killing Fandrich, Milner staged his body and belongings back in his car, trying to make it look like he died of natural causes.

Fandrich was later found dead in his car, but an autopsy revealed injury to his neck and spine.

Police arrested Milner for the murder on Jan. 31, 2023.

At trial, Milner testified in his own defense, claiming he acted in self-defense after Fandrich attacked him. The jury rejected this claim and found him guilty of second-degree murder, stalking, and seven counts of violating a protective order.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 18, 2025.

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