Remembering Jace | Season 2 Episode 36

 In today's episode of The JoCo Republican Podcast, we discuss the tragic death of "Jace Ricky Matthew Sinderson" on Fish Hatchery Road in Grants Pass in December of 2025 and the questions that continue to surround the case by his mother. 

Watch the full video here :  https://youtu.be/OG39wq2cIiU

Months later, there appears to be very little publicly available information regarding the incident. No widely reported news coverage, limited to no public records, and many unanswered questions have left friends, family, and community members searching for answers. 

Why has so little information been released? Was the investigation completed? Were the findings ever made public? Is there more to the story that the community and his mother deserves to know? 

This episode tells us what is publicly known, what remains unknown, and why transparency matters when a tragedy impacts a local family and community. If you have firsthand information, public records, or additional facts regarding this case, we encourage you to share them. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:21

Just been cannon, Republican. It is May 29, 2026. While I was at the county's public safety meeting, I believe it was uh last week, might have been the week before, um, a woman came in, her name was Vijay Linhoi, and she had a remarkable um but very tragic story about her son's death in December of uh 2025. And so I asked her, I said, hey, if there's anything I can do. I mean, I just run a lowly podcast, not how many people watch, but you know, if you want to come tell your story, and so she did. She did that today, interviewed her today, and uh I wanted to share that with all of you, and uh let's get into it. Justine County Republican. So I have with me Miji Hoyt and Ron Lee. And uh so what are we talking about today? We I wanted to get you on my show to discuss some serious stuff that's happening here locally.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

So um you're absolutely right. There's a lot of serious stuff that um that's happening in our local county that I was completely unaware of because it didn't touch or affect me personally at the time. Um December 5th, 2025, my son Jace Ricky Matthew Senderson was killed by two drivers on Fish Hatchery Road with no sobriety tests, uh, no full investigation. Um he was hit by one car and um flew. And there was enough time for another vehicle to go around Jace, pull over, get out of his vehicle, run up the road to try to help, you know, other cars coming or whatnot, while Cassandra stayed in her car screaming the entire time doing nothing to help my son. But not before another vehicle came and dragged him 200 feet, and I can prove that my son was looking at the license plate.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

Like he was alive. Just from the pictures.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

So, what happened after that? Did you uh let are the police in the case?

SPEAKER_02 2:21

I did. I I went to the police, I asked him all the questions. Officer Topham with the sheriff's department um was the lead guy on Jace's death case, and he pretty much told me to put it in an email any time that he spent talking to me verbally over the phone. This is after several messages of asking him to call me back. When he finally did call me back, he said that it was wasting his time on actual cases that he was working on.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

That's incredibly just not very sensitive.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

No, it's not very sensitive. This was a week and a half after my son died.

unknown 2:52

Gosh.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Okay, um, and when I got the police report finally, after waiting what seemed to be an unbearable long time, um, it was incomplete. Um, even Cassandra's um statement is incomplete. It ends at Cassandra asked. And it says to refer to the body cam footage multiple places in this um incident report. And I was denied by the district attorney saying it was a uh personal interest and I and not a public interest. And I believe it's both. And it should be a personal interest because it's my son. Of course it's personal, but it is also a public interest for transparency. Yeah, because there doesn't seem to be any at all. It's uh sorry, your son was killed. He's like roadkill, not a big deal. And um, that's not acceptable.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

So you did open records requests and trying to get the body cam footage.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

It was denied.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

And you were denied flat out. Flat out.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

Yeah, it was denied the same day by by a little past nine o'clock at night.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

That's incredible. So they didn't even really look it over.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

No, he actually admitted in his denial that he didn't even view the body cam footage before he denied it. He essentially, uh my guess is that he made a phone call or a phone call was made, says don't release it. It's the only thing I can think of. Why else? Why else do you not do your due diligence? Your job as a prosecuting attorney or someone who gets the information is to do your job, do your work, the work that the taxpayer dollars actually pay you to do. When you don't do them, how do we trust?

SPEAKER_03 4:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

Where does the trust come from? Because I sure the hell don't trust them. I don't trust them at all. Um, there are a lot of families that have reached out to me before I even made a um post that went viral about asking, because I want to know how far does this go? I can my son's case can't be the only one. Right. And turns out it's not. Unfortunately, the Josephine County Sheriff's Department, especially under Sheriff Dave Daniels, is shit. There's no transparency. It's whatever they want that they see fit, and you don't get to ask questions. And that's not right because that's not their loved ones. That's not, that shouldn't be up to them.

unknown 5:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

So what are you doing to fight this?

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Um I am going to I'm meeting with families. Um a lot of families that are going through the same thing. I am I am documenting the inconsistencies and I'm documenting um where the failure is, where the lack is, how many sobriety tests were not done and and fatalities. And um I'm also um noticing a pattern that if um your motor transportation doesn't pay DMV fees, you're literally treated less than less than human. You're not valuable at all. My son was riding on an electric scooter. Um, there's plenty of hit and run cases. There are cases where people have been beat up and died. Um the only ones that seem to get resolved is if there's DMV fees or insurance involved. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of accountability for um non uh state taxes being paid. And I don't I don't I don't know if that's like why super widespread, which is why I'm asking. You know, but everyone I've talked to, they literally the same thing. People have closure when it's a vehicle accident, there's death because you have attorneys, you've got money coming in, you know, you got different pockets you can pull from. But when you don't, you're not worth anything.

SPEAKER_03 6:20

Have you hired an attorney?

SPEAKER_02 6:21

I do have a wrongful death attorney for that is suing both the drivers, yes.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

But um, I have not hired an attorney for the county. I want transparency, I want change. I need to know that I feel safe in my county and I don't.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

Right. Yeah, makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

There is no uh procedure that I'm aware of. Like when there is a fatality, there should be a standard of rules of things that you have, like checklists that you have to go off of. Sobriety testing, everybody should be tested.

unknown 6:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Everybody.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

Everybody involved in the acting.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

So you're just like definitely, I don't smell any alcohol. You can't smell pills. Right. You can't smell a lot of drugs, and you can't you can't just like expect someone to be like, okay, well, you didn't smell alcohol, everything's fine.

SPEAKER_03 7:07

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

That that's not right. That's like you didn't do your best. If this was your child and the level of uh accountability or lack of that I have received and the um the records that I have received, it's not acceptable. The fact that the incident report is literally reviewed by two different people on two different days is insane to me because if one person looks at the entire report, there's no way that the the witness statements um are physically possible. It is not physically possible for all three of them to be true.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

And not one person reviewed the entire thing, otherwise they would have been, well, wait a minute, that can't happen. And there was also no press release with my son's death at all.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

So they just tried to brush it under the carpet.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Good luck trying to find anything about it online unless it's something I've posted.

SPEAKER_03 7:59

And this happened in December.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

December 5th.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

The night of the tree lighting.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Yep, around 5 p.m. I was popped up in front of Diamond Cannabis with my pop-up bakery. And um, I got a phone call from my daughter telling me to take Southside Road because there was a fatality accident. I said, Oh no, my heart just sank. And then I got another phone call that his friend, Jace's friend and his dad, were super concerned. They didn't know where he was at. Chanel's in our life 360 was showing him uh still down there near near the bridge. We're like, wait, what's going on? Like, what do you mean? So then my daughter tells me that she thinks that it might be Jace. And so then I call, you know, the police department and tell them, you know, I think my son might be um involved in an accident and give him the information. I was put on hold. Nobody came to the phone at all. I was on hold the entire time. My conversation got cut off by the time I got out to Fish Hatchery Road, which is a good 15-minute drive.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Okay. And um, when I get out there, I can literally see the police officers, which one was gonna tell me. I could see my son's body, I could see the hearst from Holland Hall. Um I can I'll never forget I was wearing my Grinch costume because it was Christmas. And I uh I lost my shit. I lost it. Um they're like, we were about to inform you. And uh I lost it. And I understand that, you know, it was I don't I don't I don't even know.

SPEAKER_03 9:38

Yeah, I'm surprised you can keep it together right now. Like even you know, I I have a 24-year-old son, and that's why I was like, I need to get you on this show, because I mean to lose my own son, like it just so I had him when I was 20. Yeah, same here.

SPEAKER_02 9:57

He grew up with me. He was my best friend, my daily diary, my daily download. Never started a day without morning love. The only one that loved to be in the kitchen with me, trying all the different things and like literally ordering up stupid, obscene things that was like $60 for some special corners game him to make some special raviolis that he just pulled out of thin area that he wanted me to help him with, and they just found the picture in his phone the other day when we did that. My son's life mattered. These people's lives mattered. They do and they shouldn't have to sit there wondering why. Why isn't there the transparency? Why can't you tell me? Why can't you prove to me my son was in his lane? Why did you dismiss um the other witnesses that were there? The witness that saw 90% of everything that happened, they refused his witness statement. Flat out refused it to his face, and also Oregon State Police flat out refused his statement too, because he tried to correct their reconstruction team, the one that was claimed to never have existed, and then later recanted that it did exist, and then they said there wasn't a report. But he tried correcting on where Jace's body landed from after the first impact before it was dragged to 200 feet. And they didn't want to listen to him. They completely dismissed him. They didn't, they refused his statement. They didn't want to, they nothing. So the only statements that they took were the only the ones that were driving vehicles. Again, another pattern I'm clocking that nobody seems to matter. There's a guy on Bridge Street in the corner of Bridge and Forth who reached out to me. He's been there 32 years. And uh he's witnessed 50 plus accidents and one fatality, and he's offered multiple times for his witness accounts, and he's been turned away every single time.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

Wow. So, people, my followers, what can they do to help? And where how can they reach you? Do you have a website?

SPEAKER_02 11:52

I have a Jay's Forever 24 Facebook page that I manage. My daughter-in-law manages the TikTok. I'm not um so sure about that one. Um, because I it's a lot, it's a full-time job. Yeah, this is a full-time job. Um, I have a lady um driving from Yakima, Washington today to meet me. Good. Um, that her son was killed two almost three years ago in Cave Junction with no accountability, no transparency, denied records also um through the foyer requests. And um, that's not right.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

So like why is it that they can hold so much power over our loved ones? And are they why are they so afraid of the transparency? What is it that they're doing wrong that we're not supposed to know about? Like, this isn't right.

SPEAKER_03 12:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

So I feel like the people out there, they can um I I anybody out there that if you want me to, I mean, yes, I'm a very busy person, but I will take, I will take notes. I need people to bring me their copies of their evidence. I want their notes, their diaries, I want every procedural um inconsistency that they have gone through. I want to hear every single one of their stories. Um, one of my goals um is that our district attorney isn't doing his job, and so I would um like to say he doesn't deserve his job. I'd like to go um higher than him.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Which would be the governor. No, because he's state.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

I want to go higher than that because people have written the governor, governor, people have written the mayor, people have written, like I have a lot of messages and comments and emails from people that have told me everything that they've done in our state and it's not going anywhere. It's literally fallen on deaf ears. So I feel like the feds need to come in, like the DOJ. And I feel if I um am able to present a strong enough stack of cases that they can't ignore our entire county or our neighboring counties for that matter, because I've gotten messages from people from Douglas County and Jackson County. They're like, this isn't right, this is happening here, and they have all their evidence too.

unknown 13:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

So continue to fight. Yeah. I mean, that's the important part here. Keep fighting.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

I want to stack people's cases.

SPEAKER_03 13:59

I mean, I'm happy to even do a tiny, tiny little bit to help you. Yeah. Because I mean, this is it blows my mind that this kind of stuff would happen. I mean, I I'm a big law enforcement advocate. I help law enforcement and stuff like that, but to hear this kind of thing is just disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

It is, it is very disgusting. I never thought I'd ever be in this position in my life.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Yeah, I'm sure nobody would.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

This is hard.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

Keep fighting and whatever we can do to help, whatever I can do to help, I will.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

I appreciate that a lot. Ron has been very helpful.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

Um so I'm I'm Ron Lee.

SPEAKER_03 14:39

I uh currently sit on the yeah, take the microphone for that way people can hear. Yeah, just kind of hold it if you want. That's true. So yeah, Ron, sorry about that. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

So I'm Ron Lee. I'm currently with the uh Josephine County Sheriff's Department Taxing District Citizens Advisory Committee. Yeah, I and I didn't even get it right, but uh um so I've been on the board for two years. Uh my term was up in February, I reapplied, was reappointed. Uh I believe it's really important for for the sheriff's office to be held accountable and for the the taxpayers to get what they pay for and to feel safe in our community. And if if the citizens aren't feeling safe or they don't feel that the the department is doing its job, we need to hear about it at the sheriff's advisory board. Um so we meet every second Wednesday of each month at 3 p.m. Uh in the the Josephine County Courthouse. Um near the the commissioner's office. Um we want to hear from everybody. Uh the you know, I've been friends with VG for a few years now. Um she came to me literally right after it happened. Um and I would love to see all of the evidence brought forward. Um I I don't see a clear reason why it's being withheld. Uh it doesn't it doesn't seem to me that there's any culpability within the department or anything like that. They weren't involved in the accident, you know, they had nothing to do with it. So why why is it being withheld? Those are questions that I have. Um, you know, and and further in my background, you know, for the last 25 years I have been an investigative journalist with the US Observer newspaper, uh, helping people who are falsely accused of crimes or otherwise wrong civilly. Um we would go out, collect the information, collect all of the proof, evidence, and use our newspaper as a a club to make the elected officials do what was right and just. And um and so this this kind of falls in line with that too. Um you know, if there are so many people who uh aren't being treated fairly and that transparent transparency doesn't exist, what is going on? Um we need to dig dig deeper, and and I really hope that VG is successful in uh uncovering everything in in Jace's case, in other people's cases, and I'll I'll help her do it.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Yeah, same here. Anything I can do, and we're both IT nerds.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

I love that because I'm not you know, internet and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

I mean so that's kind of what I do. I'm a social media director for the Republican Party.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

Um so yeah, I'm here to help.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

Okay. I think it's very cleaning because this has been quite an isolating journey.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

Yeah, sounds like it's and so hopefully we can get your name out there and people can know what happened and reach out to you.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

So absolutely my phone number is also available. It's publicly um published at 541-450-2159.

SPEAKER_03 18:13

Okay, you don't mind not being out there?

SPEAKER_02 18:15

It is public everywhere, it's with my business, it's within, and I have a secondary phone that nobody knows about.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

All right, well, thank you for telling your story or that number. Yeah, hopefully, I mean, I I I don't have a huge following. Maybe I will someday.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Yeah, and I'll send it to me. I'll put it on my page as well. I mean, I have a 13,000 and growing following.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

A lot more than I do. Okay, thank you, you both. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you, Jordan, VG, Ron. Hey Jordan, thank you.