Valley Hills Funeral Home
June 8, 2019, our lives were forever changed when husband, father, brother, friend and grandfather, Dennis Eugene Overacker Sr., 61, was tragically taken from us.
Dennis worked as a mechanic/NHRA crew chief for his brother in law Todd Meikle prior to taking ownership of All Star Towing together with his wife Wendy. He had a huge heart and always wanted to help others. He loved Harleys and Fords. Dennis was loved by numerous friends and family in the community.
Dennis is survived by his wife of 27 years, Wendy; sons, Nicholas (Anabel) Meikle, DJ (Kayla) Overacker, and Bryer (BreeAnn) Overacker; daughter, Becca Overacker, all from Yakima; sisters, Sharon Keeth, Karen Overacker, and Jan Moss; mother, Janita Overacker; mother and father in law, William and Peggy Meikle. Dennis was a loving grandfather to 13 grandkids, numerous nieces and nephews.
Dennis is preceded in death by his father Floyd Overacker and grandson, Jase Overacker.
Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Wapato. Burial will follow at Reservation Community Memorial Park.∼WHITE SWAN, Wash - On Wednesday Action News learned new details of the quintuple homicide in White Swan last June.
9-1-1 calls reveal people running for their lives and of a carjacking and attempted kidnapping.
Reporter Ryan Rogers went to the scenes to show how two survivors got away and a boy escaped from being kidnapped.
On Saturday, June 8th of last year just after 4:00 p.m. the 9-1-1 call came in.
A woman says she was driving in a truck headed west on Evans Road near White Swan.
She said she was fleeing the area because two people tried to shoot and kill her.
The driver Dennis Overacker was dead from a gunshot wound to the head, so the passenger, who was also shot had to reach over and drive the truck from the passenger's seat.
The passenger's friend, the woman who was on the phone with 9-1-1 had also been shot, but fortunately, her infant child was not hurt.
While tribal police secured the scene in White Swan, investigators talked to the woman at the hospital. She said that she, her friend, Overacker and Thomas Hernandez had gone to John Cagle's house on the 51-hundred bock of Medicine Valley Road to check on Cagle, also known as Dobbie Jack.
But when they arrived, they were confronted by two Native American men. Hernandez got out to talk to the men and while he was walking back to the truck one of the men shot Overacker in the head and then Hernandez was shot and fell in the driveway.
One or more people then opened fire on the truck, the woman and her friend were hit but they survived the attack.
When police arrived at Cagle's house they found a gruesome scene. Thomas Hernandez was lying face down in the driveway dying from a gunshot wound to the head.
Just inside the front gate, Catherine Eneas was dead from a gunshot wound.
Around the back of the home, Michelle Starnes was found dead and inside the game room of the house, Cagle was also found dead from a gunshot to the head.
Police found discharged shell casings scattered around the dead bodies.
During the time the two surviving witnesses called 9-1-1, the investigators say the Cloud brothers were trying to escape White Swan.
About 45 minutes later at 4:45-pm, a woman called 9-1-1 reporting two men had walked on to her yard on Evans Road about 7 miles from the murder scene.
There they put a gun to her son's head and stole her husband's truck. The husband asked the men to allow his son to ride in the back of the truck and they agreed.
As the truck sped off, the boy's father yelled for his son to jump. The boy jumped out of the bed of the truck escaping the kidnappers, the family then ran into the house and called 9-1-1.
While police were talking to the boy's father, another officer found two people hiding in a field directly behind the family's house.
The two were identified as Morris and Natasha Jackson. Police arrested them and put them into custody.
After being arrested Morris Jackson admitted to police that he and Natasha were with the Cloud brothers at the time of the murders.
The Jacksons were inside the truck when they heard gunshots. Morris told police the four of them fled after ransacking Cagle's house.
The truck, which belonged to Catherine Eneas, broke down and the Jacksons separated from the Clouds.
At first, police reported that both James and Donovan Cloud had been arrested.
Donovan Cloud was arrested on the afternoon of June 9th in Oregon, just one day after the murders.
But James Cloud was still on the loose. After recognizing the error, Yakama Nation police issued an update saying James Cloud was still at large.
He was arrested in the early morning hours of Monday, June 10th just south of Wapato.
James Cloud was indicted on first-degree murder charges last month. He and Donovan Cloud were already charged with assault, carjacking, and kidnapping.
If convicted of murder, James Cloud faces a mandatory life sentence.
June 8, 2019, our lives were forever changed when husband, father, brother, friend and grandfather, Dennis Eugene Overacker Sr., 61, was tragically taken from us.
Dennis worked as a mechanic/NHRA crew chief for his brother in law Todd Meikle prior to taking ownership of All Star Towing together with his wife Wendy. He had a huge heart and always wanted to help others. He loved Harleys and Fords. Dennis was loved by numerous friends and family in the community.
Dennis is survived by his wife of 27 years, Wendy; sons, Nicholas (Anabel) Meikle, DJ (Kayla) Overacker, and Bryer (BreeAnn) Overacker; daughter, Becca Overacker, all from Yakima; sisters, Sharon Keeth, Karen Overacker, and Jan Moss; mother, Janita Overacker; mother and father in law, William and Peggy Meikle. Dennis was a loving grandfather to 13 grandkids, numerous nieces and nephews.
Dennis is preceded in death by his father Floyd Overacker and grandson, Jase Overacker.
Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Wapato. Burial will follow at Reservation Community Memorial Park.∼WHITE SWAN, Wash - On Wednesday Action News learned new details of the quintuple homicide in White Swan last June.
9-1-1 calls reveal people running for their lives and of a carjacking and attempted kidnapping.
Reporter Ryan Rogers went to the scenes to show how two survivors got away and a boy escaped from being kidnapped.
On Saturday, June 8th of last year just after 4:00 p.m. the 9-1-1 call came in.
A woman says she was driving in a truck headed west on Evans Road near White Swan.
She said she was fleeing the area because two people tried to shoot and kill her.
The driver Dennis Overacker was dead from a gunshot wound to the head, so the passenger, who was also shot had to reach over and drive the truck from the passenger's seat.
The passenger's friend, the woman who was on the phone with 9-1-1 had also been shot, but fortunately, her infant child was not hurt.
While tribal police secured the scene in White Swan, investigators talked to the woman at the hospital. She said that she, her friend, Overacker and Thomas Hernandez had gone to John Cagle's house on the 51-hundred bock of Medicine Valley Road to check on Cagle, also known as Dobbie Jack.
But when they arrived, they were confronted by two Native American men. Hernandez got out to talk to the men and while he was walking back to the truck one of the men shot Overacker in the head and then Hernandez was shot and fell in the driveway.
One or more people then opened fire on the truck, the woman and her friend were hit but they survived the attack.
When police arrived at Cagle's house they found a gruesome scene. Thomas Hernandez was lying face down in the driveway dying from a gunshot wound to the head.
Just inside the front gate, Catherine Eneas was dead from a gunshot wound.
Around the back of the home, Michelle Starnes was found dead and inside the game room of the house, Cagle was also found dead from a gunshot to the head.
Police found discharged shell casings scattered around the dead bodies.
During the time the two surviving witnesses called 9-1-1, the investigators say the Cloud brothers were trying to escape White Swan.
About 45 minutes later at 4:45-pm, a woman called 9-1-1 reporting two men had walked on to her yard on Evans Road about 7 miles from the murder scene.
There they put a gun to her son's head and stole her husband's truck. The husband asked the men to allow his son to ride in the back of the truck and they agreed.
As the truck sped off, the boy's father yelled for his son to jump. The boy jumped out of the bed of the truck escaping the kidnappers, the family then ran into the house and called 9-1-1.
While police were talking to the boy's father, another officer found two people hiding in a field directly behind the family's house.
The two were identified as Morris and Natasha Jackson. Police arrested them and put them into custody.
After being arrested Morris Jackson admitted to police that he and Natasha were with the Cloud brothers at the time of the murders.
The Jacksons were inside the truck when they heard gunshots. Morris told police the four of them fled after ransacking Cagle's house.
The truck, which belonged to Catherine Eneas, broke down and the Jacksons separated from the Clouds.
At first, police reported that both James and Donovan Cloud had been arrested.
Donovan Cloud was arrested on the afternoon of June 9th in Oregon, just one day after the murders.
But James Cloud was still on the loose. After recognizing the error, Yakama Nation police issued an update saying James Cloud was still at large.
He was arrested in the early morning hours of Monday, June 10th just south of Wapato.
James Cloud was indicted on first-degree murder charges last month. He and Donovan Cloud were already charged with assault, carjacking, and kidnapping.
If convicted of murder, James Cloud faces a mandatory life sentence.
Valley Hills Funeral Home
June 8, 2019, our lives were forever changed when husband, father, brother, friend and grandfather, Dennis Eugene Overacker Sr., 61, was tragically taken from us.
Dennis worked as a mechanic/NHRA crew chief for his brother in law Todd Meikle prior to taking ownership of All Star Towing together with his wife Wendy. He had a huge heart and always wanted to help others. He loved Harleys and Fords. Dennis was loved by numerous friends and family in the community.
Dennis is survived by his wife of 27 years, Wendy; sons, Nicholas (Anabel) Meikle, DJ (Kayla) Overacker, and Bryer (BreeAnn) Overacker; daughter, Becca Overacker, all from Yakima; sisters, Sharon Keeth, Karen Overacker, and Jan Moss; mother, Janita Overacker; mother and father in law, William and Peggy Meikle. Dennis was a loving grandfather to 13 grandkids, numerous nieces and nephews.
Dennis is preceded in death by his father Floyd Overacker and grandson, Jase Overacker.
Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Wapato. Burial will follow at Reservation Community Memorial Park.∼WHITE SWAN, Wash - On Wednesday Action News learned new details of the quintuple homicide in White Swan last June.
9-1-1 calls reveal people running for their lives and of a carjacking and attempted kidnapping.
Reporter Ryan Rogers went to the scenes to show how two survivors got away and a boy escaped from being kidnapped.
On Saturday, June 8th of last year just after 4:00 p.m. the 9-1-1 call came in.
A woman says she was driving in a truck headed west on Evans Road near White Swan.
She said she was fleeing the area because two people tried to shoot and kill her.
The driver Dennis Overacker was dead from a gunshot wound to the head, so the passenger, who was also shot had to reach over and drive the truck from the passenger's seat.
The passenger's friend, the woman who was on the phone with 9-1-1 had also been shot, but fortunately, her infant child was not hurt.
While tribal police secured the scene in White Swan, investigators talked to the woman at the hospital. She said that she, her friend, Overacker and Thomas Hernandez had gone to John Cagle's house on the 51-hundred bock of Medicine Valley Road to check on Cagle, also known as Dobbie Jack.
But when they arrived, they were confronted by two Native American men. Hernandez got out to talk to the men and while he was walking back to the truck one of the men shot Overacker in the head and then Hernandez was shot and fell in the driveway.
One or more people then opened fire on the truck, the woman and her friend were hit but they survived the attack.
When police arrived at Cagle's house they found a gruesome scene. Thomas Hernandez was lying face down in the driveway dying from a gunshot wound to the head.
Just inside the front gate, Catherine Eneas was dead from a gunshot wound.
Around the back of the home, Michelle Starnes was found dead and inside the game room of the house, Cagle was also found dead from a gunshot to the head.
Police found discharged shell casings scattered around the dead bodies.
During the time the two surviving witnesses called 9-1-1, the investigators say the Cloud brothers were trying to escape White Swan.
About 45 minutes later at 4:45-pm, a woman called 9-1-1 reporting two men had walked on to her yard on Evans Road about 7 miles from the murder scene.
There they put a gun to her son's head and stole her husband's truck. The husband asked the men to allow his son to ride in the back of the truck and they agreed.
As the truck sped off, the boy's father yelled for his son to jump. The boy jumped out of the bed of the truck escaping the kidnappers, the family then ran into the house and called 9-1-1.
While police were talking to the boy's father, another officer found two people hiding in a field directly behind the family's house.
The two were identified as Morris and Natasha Jackson. Police arrested them and put them into custody.
After being arrested Morris Jackson admitted to police that he and Natasha were with the Cloud brothers at the time of the murders.
The Jacksons were inside the truck when they heard gunshots. Morris told police the four of them fled after ransacking Cagle's house.
The truck, which belonged to Catherine Eneas, broke down and the Jacksons separated from the Clouds.
At first, police reported that both James and Donovan Cloud had been arrested.
Donovan Cloud was arrested on the afternoon of June 9th in Oregon, just one day after the murders.
But James Cloud was still on the loose. After recognizing the error, Yakama Nation police issued an update saying James Cloud was still at large.
He was arrested in the early morning hours of Monday, June 10th just south of Wapato.
James Cloud was indicted on first-degree murder charges last month. He and Donovan Cloud were already charged with assault, carjacking, and kidnapping.
If convicted of murder, James Cloud faces a mandatory life sentence.
June 8, 2019, our lives were forever changed when husband, father, brother, friend and grandfather, Dennis Eugene Overacker Sr., 61, was tragically taken from us.
Dennis worked as a mechanic/NHRA crew chief for his brother in law Todd Meikle prior to taking ownership of All Star Towing together with his wife Wendy. He had a huge heart and always wanted to help others. He loved Harleys and Fords. Dennis was loved by numerous friends and family in the community.
Dennis is survived by his wife of 27 years, Wendy; sons, Nicholas (Anabel) Meikle, DJ (Kayla) Overacker, and Bryer (BreeAnn) Overacker; daughter, Becca Overacker, all from Yakima; sisters, Sharon Keeth, Karen Overacker, and Jan Moss; mother, Janita Overacker; mother and father in law, William and Peggy Meikle. Dennis was a loving grandfather to 13 grandkids, numerous nieces and nephews.
Dennis is preceded in death by his father Floyd Overacker and grandson, Jase Overacker.
Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at Valley Hills Funeral Home in Wapato. Burial will follow at Reservation Community Memorial Park.∼WHITE SWAN, Wash - On Wednesday Action News learned new details of the quintuple homicide in White Swan last June.
9-1-1 calls reveal people running for their lives and of a carjacking and attempted kidnapping.
Reporter Ryan Rogers went to the scenes to show how two survivors got away and a boy escaped from being kidnapped.
On Saturday, June 8th of last year just after 4:00 p.m. the 9-1-1 call came in.
A woman says she was driving in a truck headed west on Evans Road near White Swan.
She said she was fleeing the area because two people tried to shoot and kill her.
The driver Dennis Overacker was dead from a gunshot wound to the head, so the passenger, who was also shot had to reach over and drive the truck from the passenger's seat.
The passenger's friend, the woman who was on the phone with 9-1-1 had also been shot, but fortunately, her infant child was not hurt.
While tribal police secured the scene in White Swan, investigators talked to the woman at the hospital. She said that she, her friend, Overacker and Thomas Hernandez had gone to John Cagle's house on the 51-hundred bock of Medicine Valley Road to check on Cagle, also known as Dobbie Jack.
But when they arrived, they were confronted by two Native American men. Hernandez got out to talk to the men and while he was walking back to the truck one of the men shot Overacker in the head and then Hernandez was shot and fell in the driveway.
One or more people then opened fire on the truck, the woman and her friend were hit but they survived the attack.
When police arrived at Cagle's house they found a gruesome scene. Thomas Hernandez was lying face down in the driveway dying from a gunshot wound to the head.
Just inside the front gate, Catherine Eneas was dead from a gunshot wound.
Around the back of the home, Michelle Starnes was found dead and inside the game room of the house, Cagle was also found dead from a gunshot to the head.
Police found discharged shell casings scattered around the dead bodies.
During the time the two surviving witnesses called 9-1-1, the investigators say the Cloud brothers were trying to escape White Swan.
About 45 minutes later at 4:45-pm, a woman called 9-1-1 reporting two men had walked on to her yard on Evans Road about 7 miles from the murder scene.
There they put a gun to her son's head and stole her husband's truck. The husband asked the men to allow his son to ride in the back of the truck and they agreed.
As the truck sped off, the boy's father yelled for his son to jump. The boy jumped out of the bed of the truck escaping the kidnappers, the family then ran into the house and called 9-1-1.
While police were talking to the boy's father, another officer found two people hiding in a field directly behind the family's house.
The two were identified as Morris and Natasha Jackson. Police arrested them and put them into custody.
After being arrested Morris Jackson admitted to police that he and Natasha were with the Cloud brothers at the time of the murders.
The Jacksons were inside the truck when they heard gunshots. Morris told police the four of them fled after ransacking Cagle's house.
The truck, which belonged to Catherine Eneas, broke down and the Jacksons separated from the Clouds.
At first, police reported that both James and Donovan Cloud had been arrested.
Donovan Cloud was arrested on the afternoon of June 9th in Oregon, just one day after the murders.
But James Cloud was still on the loose. After recognizing the error, Yakama Nation police issued an update saying James Cloud was still at large.
He was arrested in the early morning hours of Monday, June 10th just south of Wapato.
James Cloud was indicted on first-degree murder charges last month. He and Donovan Cloud were already charged with assault, carjacking, and kidnapping.
If convicted of murder, James Cloud faces a mandatory life sentence.
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