The Careaga Family
On the evening of 27 January 2017, dispatchers in Kitsap County, Washington received a 911 call from 16-year-old Hunter Schaap, who pleaded with authorities to rush to the scene. By the time authorities arrived, the home that Hunter lived in with his family was engulfed in flame…
January 27th, 2017 was a regular Friday throughout Kitsap County, Washington. The temperature hovered in the mid-forties and clouds seemed to come and go at-will, teasing residents with rain throughout the day. The Seahawks season had ended nearly a month prior, so this was the first time in six years that football wasn't being played in Washington in January. And all everyone could talk about seemed to be the new president, who had been inaugurated just one week prior.
That Friday night, at their home on West Tenino Drive - an attractive single-story ranch home, brown on tan, with red landscaping rock lining the front walk and green topiary shrubs - the Careaga family spent their time like any other family would... snacking, staying up late, scrolling their phones or watching TV.
The Careagas were a blended family. 43-year-old John, who went by Johnny with his friends and family, and his wife, 37-year-old Christale, had two teenage sons: Johnathan Higgins and Hunter Schaap, one hers and one his, both 16-years-old and from previous relationships. John and Christale had married in 2009 and the two boys had largely grown up as brothers.
Sadly, though, their eight years together as a family were about to come to an end.
Operator: Kitsap 911. What are you reporting?
Hunter Schaap: Help. Hurry, my whole family’s shot. Me too.
Operator: What’s the address?
Hunter Schaap: Please come now.
Operator: What’s the address?
Hunter Schaap: 1-3-4-1-7 Tenino Drive West
Operator: 1-3-4-1-7…
Hunter Schaap: 1-3-4-1-7 Tenino Drive West. Come now!
Operator: What… what’s the…
Hunter Schaap: I’m dying right now. My family’s shot. Hurry.
Operator: You said Tenino Drive West?
Hunter Schaap: 1-3-4-1-7 Tenino Drive West
Operator: OK…
Hunter Schaap: Bremerton, Washington
Operator: OK, listen…
Hunter Schaap: I’m dying. I’m shot right now. My family’s dead…
Operator: Who did it?
Hunter Schaap: (unintelligible) someone came in... There was someone here with a gun, I don’t know… you need to come now…
Operator: How… How many people?
Hunter Schaap: I don’t know, bro, just fucking come now.
Operator: Where are you shot?
Hunter Schaap: My parents’ fucking dead (unintelligible)… come (unintelligible)
Operator: Where are you shot?
Hunter Schaap: I’m fucking shot, bro, I don’t know when…
Line disconnects
When emergency responders arrived at the Careaga family home minutes later, they found it on fire. Firefighters worked to extinguish the flames and inside the home they found three bodies.
The fourth was missing.
On Sunday morning the Kitsap Sun reported the awful news under the headline 3 people found dead in Kitsap County home after fire. The subtitle was Homeowner Missing. From the story:
Three people were found dead inside a Kitsap County home that was engulfed in flames, and authorities Saturday searched for the homeowner, who was missing along with his truck, a sheriff’s spokesman said. The deaths of two men and a woman were classified as homicides, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said Saturday.
The crime happened on Friday night. It was now Sunday morning, and nobody had seen Johnny Careaga. The Olympian reported:
Authorities asked the public to be on the lookout for the homeowner, 43-year-old John Derek Careaga, and to call 911 if he shows up. He is believed to be driving a brown 2005 Ford F-150 truck with Washington license plate CA9383B, Wilson said. Careaga is considered a missing person at this point, Wilson said.
Despite the clarification that Johnny Careaga was considered simply a missing person, you get the inkling that there was some suspicion… that perhaps he was the perpetrator.
Call 911 if he shows up.
In hindsight, I would presume that suspicion came from the press, who were not yet privy to the contents of the 911 call, or exactly what had been found at the crime scene.
The print media also made the worst blunder they could possibly make in those early hours after the crime — even though the coroner had not yet identified the bodies found in the home, the Kitsap Sun reported Hunter Schaap, 16, had survived the attack.
He had not survived.
Three people had been shot to death, as detailed by the Sun:
The shell casings, which investigators wrote were mostly 9 mm, were located on a back deck and on the driveway according to documents.
Killed at the Careaga family home were Christale Careaga and both teenage boys, Johnathan Higgins and Hunter Schaap, who made the 911 call just before he died.
All day Saturday and into Sunday the authorities had every available set of eyes looking for Johnny Careaga or his truck.
On Monday, the Sun reported Johnny’s truck had been found.
The burned pickup containing the body of John D Careaga 43 was found on a tree farm along a remote road in North Mason County, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday while asking for assistance from residents in the area.
Crime scene investigators also found a single latex glove on the ground near Johnny’s burned out truck.
The authorities asked residents or businesses with security cameras to contact them, and offered a list of roads they were interested in. Sheriff’s Detective Lt. Earl Smith said “If they have video that faces the roadway give us a call.”
There were scant details to be found, however, on the circumstances surrounding the discovery of John Careaga’s body.
Someone walking Sunday in the area of the tree farm discovered Careaga’s 2005 Ford F-150. The road to the tree farm has a gate. [...] It apparently had been knocked down and is now propped up, secured with a cable lock.
To say the gate had been “knocked down” is the gentle way of putting it. It was a heavy, metal gate and would have had to be rammed with Johnny’s truck to break through it.
Had the killer forced Johnny to smash through the gate of the tree farm?
Or was Johnny already incapacitated?
Regarding the welfare of Hunter Schaap, the Kitsap Sun clarified the young man’s fate. His Principal, Megan Sawicki of North Kitsap High School, wrote:
“I am deeply saddened to share that Hunter’s family has confirmed and requested that we share with you that he was one of the victims of suspected homicide early Saturday morning. For those of you who knew Hunter, we ask that you remember his wit, intelligence and big heart. This is a great loss for our entire NKHS community.”
It’s perhaps too easy for us, when we hear Hunter Schaap using coarse language on the last call he will ever make, to forget that, even at 16, he was a child. His principal’s statement was a welcome reminder that no child deserves the fate that Johnathan Higgins and Hunter Schaap suffered. Regardless of what the parents had done (if anything) no child deserves this. And nobody should shrug it off or try to justify it with unsubstantiated rumors. They were children.
The authorities showed a strong commitment to solving the case from the very beginning when the Kitsap County Sheriff’s office assigned a full-time investigator to the case, Detective Elizabeth “Lissa” Gundrum.
The natural inclination of any investigator at a point like this would be to dig into the lives of the victims and find out who they were.
In a letter to the editor, the families released a joint statement:
Dear Friends, Neighbors and Our Community. During the loss of our loved ones, our families are deeply grateful for the kindness and compassion you’ve shown to all of us. The prayers you’ve said and shared. The gifts of friendship and every other form of gift there is. The tears and the hugs we have received from so many of you. We continue to be grateful for your support as we face each new day. We were blessed to have our “Borrowed Angels” for even the briefest time, and now we are blessed to be surrounded by your loving, kind, and prayerful support. It means so much to all of us and we know it would have meant a lot to those we’ve lost. Thank you. From the families of Johnny and Christale Careaga, Hunter Schaap and Johnathan Higgins.
They seemed like any average family. What could be the possible motive for someone to kill an entire family?
There were obvious questions that any investigator would ask… was there bad blood in the family? The answer appeared to be “No,” at least, not of the magnitude that would spawn a quadruple murder.
Was there a love triangle? Again, the answer appeared to be “No.” Any complications in the marriage between Johnny and Christale appeared to be run-of-the-mill marital disagreements.
So, what then?
Theories on social media at that early stage of the investigation ran the gamut, and not all of them were flattering to the Careagas.
The family had owned a coffee shop, Christale’s Java Hut, and also a mom and pop taco shop on Kitsap Way known as Juanito’s Taco Shop. Some speculated that perhaps one or both of the businesses had been a front for a money-laundering operation for a drug cartel, like the White family’s A1A Car Wash in Albuquerque.
The investigation of the Careaga quadruple homicide prompted multiple searches of the family’s home, and the results brought other theories to light.
The family had a legal medical marijuana grow operation with 33 plants going in their basement. Investigators also found nearly $60,000 in cash in the house — a little more than 50-grand in a safe under the bed in the master bedroom and another 7-thousand-plus in a bank deposit bag in one of the dressers.
Some have speculated that perhaps Johnny Careaga’s legal marijuana grow operation cut into someone else’s illegal operation, with deadly consequences.
These theories bring up as many questions as they answer.
What was the motive?
Why kill the family and abduct Johnny but leave the money behind? It suggests a vendetta killing, doesn’t it?
Why did press accounts say the shell casings were “mostly” 9 mm? Was there more than one shooter?
Why were shell casings found on the driveway and the deck but the bodies inside? Who was shot outside? Was it as the shooter was coming or going?
Let’s speculate freely.
A person could suggest, knowing nothing more than details reported by the press at this point and the layout of the Careaga property, that a person or persons arrived in the Careaga driveway and got out of the car shooting as one or more members of the family sat on the back deck. Shots were fired and the victims were pursued into the house, where the bodies of Christale, Johnathan and Hunter were found.
Although the Careaga family home had neighbors nearby, the nature of the wooded landscape concealed the crime from potential eyewitnesses.
Nobody saw it.
Also, the 911 call from Hunter Schaap in his dying moments made no mention of a fire. It’s possible the killer was setting fire to the house as the 911 call was made.
If Johnny Careaga was kidnapped from the residence while he was still alive, how did the killer control him while killing the other family members and setting the fire? Even if Johnny was bound, that’s a lot of work for one attacker. It had to be more than one killer, right?
Unless Johnny was already dead or incapacitated, in which case a single attacker could have accomplished the murder. Except, then what would be the point of kidnapping him in the first place?
Law enforcement thought the same thing you’re likely thinking now… the fact that the killer or killers separated Johnny Careaga from his family suggests that he was the target of the hit. Of all these questions, the most important answer in solving this case is why.
For months there were no developments in the case. In February, police revealed John Careaga had been spotted around 9 pm on surveillance video at the Camp Union grocery store near his house. It showed primarily that Johnny Careaga appeared to be acting normally in the hours prior to his disappearance and helped to establish his whereabouts, but no leads developed from it.
In June, the police tried to jar loose a break by releasing a photo of a person of interest. It was the first communication in months from the authorities. From the Sun:
The video still, taken from surveillance footage at the Silverdale Target, shows a man entering the store at about 7:44 pm, Sunday, January 15th, 12 days before the murders. A separate video shows a four-door silver sedan driving past the front of the store.
On June 8th, 2017, the Tacoma News Tribune reported investigators’ urgent pleas for assistance from the public:
“Over the past four months, Kitsap sheriff’s investigators have worked tirelessly on this case,” Sheriff Gary Simpson said. “At this point, detectives have information they need to get out to everyone.”
Investigators at last confirmed what some suspected, that more than one person had carried out the murders. Sheriff’s spokesman Jon VanGesen told a local media outlet “It was a methodical, well-planned event.”
The request for information on an unknown suspect visiting a Target store a full twelve days before the crime, tenuously connected to the quadruple homicide, suggests to our research crew that the suspect bought something in the store which connected him to the crime.
What did he buy that could be tracked back to the Target store?
A firearm? Ammunition? Target doesn’t sell those things.
Something found on Johnny’s body? Duct tape? Rope? Wire?
Was it the latex glove found at the scene?
In September of 2017 the Careaga homicide took its most promising (and also most puzzling) turn. The suspect was a man named Danie J. Kelly Jr. and the headline read “Assault suspect questioned in homicide inquiry.” From the Sun:
In the course of investigating a homicide from January 2017, Kitsap County Sheriff's deputies collected evidence against a 38-year-old Bremerton man that alleges he accused his estranged mother of wearing “a wire” and then groped and propositioned her.
The first time I read that I was like, “Whoa, wait, what??”
On September 1st, Kelly’s mother contacted police and said she had been assaulted approximately three days earlier. The Deputy she spoke with knew Kelly was a person-of-interest in the Careaga murders and had the Detective investigating the case call her back. The Sun reported:
During the interview with a detective, Kelly’s mother said “She was aware of the homicides and that Danie's name had been brought up, but she was surprised he asked if she was wearing a wire.”
She had not seen her son in years and believed he contacted her so that they could reconcile.
So, the guy hasn’t seen his mother in years, then he shows up and accuses her of wearing a wire and gropes her? Yeah, nothing weird about that. The story continues.
Reports used to charge Danie J. Kelly Jr. redact the name of homicide victims but the only unsolved homicides reported during that period in Kitsap County were of four members of the blended Careaga family.
“He is one of the people we have contacted in the course of the investigation” [Lieutenant] VanGesen said of Kelly's connection to the Careaga investigation. “And we have contacted 200 to 300 people.”
Authorities and the media were careful to note at the time that Danie Kelly had not been officially named or charged in connection with the Careaga murders.
The Kitsap Sun ran a year-end story in 2017 that confirmed what everyone already knew — the murders of the Careagas were the local media’s top story of the year. There was significant public interest in seeing the case solved and for the killers to be brought to justice. To start the new year off right, an anonymous donor contributed $16,000 to Crimestoppers’ $4,000 to make the reward fund $20,000.
Just before the new year, charges were dropped against Danie J. Kelly Jr. for the assault of his mother when she refused to cooperate.
On January 11th, 2018, police released an extended version of Hunter Schaap’s 911 call (the version you heard at the beginning) and asked for members of a motorcycle club to come forward with information.
Despite the dropped charges against Kelly, investigators were not letting it go.
"We identified the person in the video as Danie Kelly Jr., age 39 of Bremerton. He remains a person of interest in this case. We also identified that Mr. Kelly is wearing Bandidos motorcycle club attire in the video and we also want to speak to his close associates because we believe they have information about his activities and the activities of those close to him,” [Sheriff’s spokesman VanGesen said.]
It was the first time investigators had gone on record regarding the participation of members of the Bandidos motorcycle club in the murder of the Careaga family.
Investigators were also investigating whether Johnny Careaga had met with someone at the Camp Union store. According to Fox 13:
They are also focusing on surveillance video showing Johnny Careaga meeting with someone in a sedan in the parking lot of the Camp Union Grocery store just after 9 p.m., shortly before his family was killed.
Sheriff’s spokesman VanGesen said:
“We know that Johnny's truck pulled up next to it and they parked next to each other for several minutes and then this unidentified vehicle pulled out after Johnny had left and pulled into the neighboring church parking lot on the east of the Camp Union grocery. What would be helpful to us is being able to identify the passenger car. We don’t know what the make or model is [...] or who was in the car.”
In summer of 2018, Crimestoppers put up a billboard, on Sixth Street west of Naval Avenue, that showed Hunter Schaap smiling, on the sidelines in his football uniform. Next to his image, his terrible, final words to the 911 dispatcher. “Help! I’m dying … My family is dead! Come Now!” It would be followed by a number of billboards around town that showed the entire family and a plea to call the number with tips.
In addition, detectives requested more communication from tipsters who had sent the sheriff’s office information without realizing just how valuable it was. The Sun reported the Sheriff’s Department:
issued a statement Tuesday saying it had gathered valuable information from letters it received about other "persons of interest” who know Danie Jay Kelly Jr., 39, the only named "person of interest” in the case. "This information may contain a critical piece to this investigation” the statement said. "The Sheriff’s Office is requesting that the author(s) of recently submitted letters, or other members of the public who have information to provide, to please contact Kitsap County Sheriff's detectives.” In January investigators named Kelly as a "person of interest” in the case but said there were "numerous” persons of interest beside Kelly. "We are looking to engage in further discussions,” the statement said. "You may continue to remain anonymous if desired.”
At risk of reading too much into the words used by journalists, the description of tips that were “sent” to the police department would suggest written communication, and describing the communication as a “letter” would seem to indicate pen and paper, sent via snail mail, versus an email, which could be tracked.
Later in 2018 attention turned to a strange twist of fate… Joseph Careaga, 20, Johnny’s other son, died in a car accident. From The Sun:
The vehicle Joseph had been riding in was traveling at "excessive" speed before it hit the other car, caught fire and became fully engulfed in flames according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. The female driver of that vehicle escaped and was taken to an area hospital.
The woman driving was Joseph Careaga’s girlfriend. Her name was Sydnee Olson and she was reportedly under a diversion agreement due to a previous car accident in 2017. The local media reported she had been going 120 MPH in a 45-zone and crashed into a car that tried to turn left in front of her.
Olson survived the accident and was eventually tried, convicted of vehicular homicide and sentenced to 9 ½ years in prison in 2021.
It’s hard to fathom so much tragedy haunting one family.
In January of 2020, the authorities engaged in another round of press and reminded everyone they believed the Bandidos motorcycle club were direct participants in the murders of the Careagas. They called on members of the biker community to come forward with information.
Unfortunately, very little if anything has developed in the time since, that we know of anyway. It’s possible the police have developed new leads that we just don’t know about yet. At the time of this podcast, however, it has now been more than five years since the murders of the Careaga family, and although investigators have taken absolutely heroic measures to keep this case alive, it grinds a little slower each day.
The apparent lack of news on the murders of the Careaga family since 2020 makes me wonder where Danie Kelly Jr. is right now, and if he feels safe.
Let’s think about it rationally.
The police suspect Danie Kelly in the murders of the Careaga family. They haven’t said so as bluntly as that, but it’s pretty clear. They also believe members or known associates of the Bandidos motorcycle club actively participated in the planning and execution of the quadruple homicide. Again, they haven’t put it into words quite that plain, but we’re smart enough to pick up on it.
For those unfamiliar, Bandidos MC is active in the State of Washington and has been the target of numerous operations in the last 40 years. According to the Department of Justice, Bandidos members were (are) heavily involved in methamphetamine trafficking in Washington as well as all types of violent crime. In 2005, 32 members and associates of Bandidos MC, including members of the Bellingham, Washington chapter, were arrested and charged with offenses including murder conspiracy, witness tampering and a number of racketeering, weapons and drug related crimes.
The Bandidos are real, and the violence they commit is real, too.
Out of curiosity, I did a web search for the Careaga murders as they relate to the Bandidos and within a minute I had discovered a blog written by a grizzled veteran of the biker lifestyle — author James “Hollywood” Macecari.
He lamented how Danie Kelly brought unwelcome and unflattering attention to the Bandidos, and if he or an accomplice flying Bandido colors were arrested for the Careaga murders, it would bring a disastrous crack down on the club from coast-to-coast.
Mr. Macecari reminds us that the solution to problems like these can be summed up in three letters.
TCB.
Take care of business.
We all know what that means. And Danie Kelly knows what it means. And Hollywood makes it clear. If Danie Kelly is guilty, then someone needs to take care of business, to save the club.
So, if you’re Danie Kelly, I wonder how you feel now? The police are onto you. Your associates are in danger of going down with you. The best way to solve the problem called Danie is to take care of business.
Has Danie been looking over his shoulder and sleeping with one eye open?
How long does he think he can go on doing that?
After all this, knowing what you now know, let’s take one more listen to the 911 call made by Hunter Schaap on January 27th, 2017.
Operator: Kitsap 911. What are you reporting?
Hunter Schaap: Help. Hurry, my whole family’s shot. Me too.
Operator: What’s the address?
Hunter Schaap: Please come now.
Operator: What’s the address?
Hunter Schaap: 1-3-4-1-7 Tenino Drive West
Operator: 1-3-4-1-7…
Hunter Schaap: 1-3-4-1-7 Tenino Drive West. Come now!
Operator: What… what’s the…
Hunter Schaap: I’m dying right now. My family’s shot. Hurry.
Operator: You said Tenino Drive West?
Hunter Schaap: 1-3-4-1-7 Tenino Drive West
Operator: OK…
Hunter Schaap: Bremerton, Washington
Operator: OK, listen…
Hunter Schaap: I’m dying. I’m shot right now. My family’s dead…
Operator: Who did it?
Hunter Schaap: (unintelligible) someone came in... There was someone here with a gun, I don’t know… you need to come now…
Operator: How… How many people?
Hunter Schaap: I don’t know, bro, just fucking come now.
Operator: Where are you shot?
Hunter Schaap: My parents’ fucking dead (unintelligible)… come (unintelligible)
Operator: Where are you shot?
Hunter Schaap: I’m fucking shot, bro, I don’t know when…
Line disconnects
No child deserves that. There is no justification for a child to die that way. And there is no question, anyone who knows anything and willingly withholds the information is as guilty as the perpetrator in denying this family much needed closure.
Someone knows something, but is not saying anything. Don’t let it be you. Don’t let the forest continue to hold its dark secrets. Paraphrasing Supreme Court Justice Louis (Louie) Brandeis, “the best disinfectant is sunshine.” Those dirty, evil secrets cannot live in the daylight.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Lissa Gundrum at 360-337-5669, the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or Crimestoppers of Puget Sound at 1-800-222-TIPS, online at p3tips.com or the P3tips.com app.
Until that day, when the authorities receive the final tip that allows them to put together all the puzzle pieces, the identity of the killers of Johnny and Christale Careaga and their two teenage sons, Johnathan Higgins and Hunter Schaap, will remain Unresolved.
Episode Information
Episode Information
Research and writing by Troy Larson
Hosting and production by Micheal Whelan
Published on May 21st, 2022
Music Credits
Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music
Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves
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