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Andrew Sorenson Goes Missing

In November 2020, 19-year-old Andrew Sorenson’s family and friends couldn’t reach him, so they reported him missing.

As the weeks and months passed, they prayed for his safe return, but their prayers would go unanswered.

In October 2021, someone abandoned a vehicle in a Northeast Spokane neighborhood. Dane Massie, who lived nearby, noticed his dogs kept approaching the strange car. After four days, Massie and one of his friends decided to investigate.

As they got close to the vehicle, they were almost knocked to the ground by a horrifying stench. They popped the trunk, and there was a dead body in it.

Police were notified and began investigating. They eventually identified the body as Sorenson’s.

Investigation and Arrest

Authorities determined that Brenda Kross was the registered owner of the vehicle. When police went to her home to speak with her, 60-year-old John Eisenman opened the door. He told authorities someone had stolen the car a year earlier, but investigators didn’t buy it.

Days later, detectives got a call from one of the couple’s neighbors. The man told them that Eisenman confessed to killing somebody and leaving their body in an abandoned vehicle.

On October 29th, 2001, police arrested Eisenman for first-degree murder.

When Eisenman was questioned, he told authorities that he found out his daughter was sold into a sex trafficking ring. He believed Sorenson, who was her boyfriend at the time, was the one who sold her.

Eisenman told authorities he rescued her from the traffickers in October 2020, but he wanted to make Sorenson pay for what he had done.

Eisenman knew Sorenson would be in Airway Heights, Washington, on November 1st, 2020, so Eisenman drove there in his fiancée’s car to confront the teen. He abducted Sorenson and put him in the trunk of the vehicle. He later beat Sorenson with a cinder block and stabbed him multiple times.

Eisenman parked the car in a deserted area in North Spokane with the body in the trunk. He claimed he removed the battery so no one could drive the vehicle.

Police concluded that an unknown third party found the car and moved it to Northeast Spokane, where Massie and his friend later found Sorenson’s dead body.

Public Support Of A Lie

As the story circulated in the media and online, many people supported Eisenman’s actions. They called him a hero and said he should be given a medal.

People even donated $60,000 to a GiveSendGo fundraiser to pay his legal bills.

Just over a month after Eisenman was arrested, authorities revealed there was no proof that Sorenson trafficked his girlfriend.

Detectives learned that on October 20th, 2020, Sorenson, his girlfriend, and two others went to Renton, Washington. Sorenson, his girlfriend, and one of the other parties reportedly used meth throughout the drive.

At some point, Sorenson dropped his girlfriend and two others at a convenience store. He was supposed to return to pick them up, but never did.

Just after midnight on October 21st, he sent a message to his mother, implying the car had been stolen.

At about 6 a.m. on October 21st, the girlfriend contacted the police. She was uncooperative, but authorities took one of the other parties to a nearby relative’s home.

On October 23rd, Eisenman and Kross picked up Eisenman’s daughter. They took her to the hospital, where she told a mental health specialist that she met a man at the convenience store who she thought could help her, but after she went with him, he locked her up, gave her drugs, and sold her for sex.

Her story changed later, and she claimed that Sorenson had dropped her off and was selling her for drugs.

She changed gear again and claimed to have been homeless in Seattle for three weeks, where she was passed around. However, she was only in Seattle for a few days.

She told a fourth story about getting in a car with a man she thought knew Sorenson. She claimed the man took her to an apartment and forced her to smoke an unknown substance before she was gang raped.

Eisenman’s Fiancé Tells On Herself

On August 18th, 2022, Eisenman’s fiancé, Kross, spoke with someone in human resources and requested some time off. She claimed she was struggling with her mental health because of Eisenman’s arrest.

Kross got a little too comfortable talking to her coworker and confessed that she was present when Sorenson was killed.

She revealed that she and Eisenman played the song “Crying, Crying, Crying” and laughed as Sorenson cried and begged for his life. She revealed she socked the teen a few times, then watched Eisenman finish him off by beating him with a cinderblock and stabbing him.

Kross stated, “he got what he deserved.”

Oddly. Kross seemed to believe the conversation with human resources was confidential, like talking to a lawyer, but she was wrong.

On August 22nd, 2022, the human resources employee went to the cops. Kross was arrested a few weeks later for first-degree murder.

Legal Proceedings

In November 2024, 59-year-old Kross pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, while 63-year-old Eisenman pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

Kross admitted in her statement that there was no proof that the victim trafficked Eiseman’s daughter.

Despite the heinous crime the two committed, the prosecution only sought a sentence of 8 years for Brooks and 22 years for Eiseman.

On January 16th, 2025, Kross was sentenced to 8.5 years.

Eisenman was sentenced to 25 years in prison.