An Oregon woman mysteriously disappeared after sending a chilling text message to a friend, voicing fears that her secret roommate, with whom she was romantically involved, might attempt to kill her. Tragically, weeks later, she was discovered dead, brutally beaten with a hammer and concealed in a blanket in a shed on their property, prosecutors revealed.

On Tuesday, 33-year-old Bobby Alsup was convicted of second-degree murder, arson, theft, abuse of a corpse, and unlawful use of a weapon for the 2024 murder of 31-year-old Kaley Snow. In a grim attempt to erase his crime, Alsup set her body on fire.

A press release from Clackamas County detailed the gruesome nature of the crime, stating that Alsup attacked Snow with a hammer, wrapped her in a blanket, and left her body to decompose in the shed. To obscure his actions, he set the structure on fire and poured cleaning fluid over both the body and the weapon.

During the trial, prosecutors presented text messages Snow had sent weeks prior to her death, expressing her fear that her new roommate might harm her. This revelation came after Alsup moved in and began a secret romantic relationship with Snow, having initially met her through his girlfriend, who was a friend of Snow, as reported by The Oregonian.

As the affair progressed, Alsup reportedly exhibited troubling behavior, including selling Snow’s belongings online, both before and after her death.

The Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office explained in their press release that Alsup began renting a room in Snow’s house just weeks before her murder. Almost immediately, he started removing her possessions from the home and selling them, which continued even after she was killed.

“I’m not afraid to die, just afraid of nobody knowing who it was,” Snow texted her friend, according to The Oregonian. She referred to Alsup as acting “sketchy” and being behind on his rent, while also hiding their relationship from his girlfriend.

“You’ve been gone awhile, so I gotta ask what’s up with the room,” Snow reportedly texted Alsup on March 12, 2024, just five days before she was murdered. “Do you even still want it?” she asked.

On March 17, 2024, cellphone data showed Alsup at the property they shared for roughly four hours. Prosecutors said this is when he killed her.

“Alsup struck Snow twice with a hammer, once on each side of her head,” the DA’s press release states. “He also took steps to cover up the crime, such as texting Snow after the murder to establish an alibi and dousing the hammer with a household cleaning product to destroy DNA evidence,” the release explains.

During his trial, one of Alsup’s defense attorneys argued that Alsup returned to the house and found Snow’s bludgeoned body, per the DA’s office. Alsup, who has several prior convictions for assault, “feared he might be blamed for the murder, so he hid her body,” according to his lawyer’s claims.

Prosecutors say the evidence and facts, however, pointed to Alsup being responsible.

“It is implausible that Alsup thought he would get in trouble, so he cleaned up someone else’s mess,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Stacey Borgman told jurors, according to the DA’s press release.

Alsup returned to the pair’s house just past midnight on March 21, 2024, and set the shed on fire using gasoline. Firefighters found Snow’s remains after responding to put out the blaze.

“Detectives used cell phone tracking data to document Alsup’s whereabouts, found Snow’s blood on his clothing and noted that Alsup conducted numerous internet searches to determine whether police had found Snow’s body or were conducting a missing person investigation,” the DA’s office says.

Alsup’s physical and digital DNA “was all over that crime scene,” according to Borgman.

Alsup faces a minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 25.