Jesse Compton Oregon Death Row

Jesse Compton was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for the murder of a three year old girl. According to court documents Jesse Compton and his life in girlfriend Stella Ann Kiser would murder her three year old daughter Tesslyn O’Cull. Prosecutors would call it the worst case of child abuse they have ever seen. Stella Ann Kiser would be sentenced to life in prison. Jesse Compton would be sentenced to death.

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Jesse Compton 2021 Information

Offender Name:Compton, Jesse Caleb Age:44 DOB:12/1976 Location:Two Rivers Correctional Institution Gender:Male Race:White Or European Origin Status:AIC Height:6′ 02” Hair:Brown Field Admission Date:12/11/1997 Weight:180 lbs Eyes:Green Earliest Release Date:Death

Stella Ann Kiser 2021 Information

Offender Name:

Kiser, Stella Ann

Age:	45		DOB:	09/1975		Location:	Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Gender:	Female		Race:	White Or European Origin		Status:	AIC
Height:	5′ 06”		Hair:	Brown		Field Admission Date:	05/07/1999
Weight:	226 lbs		Eyes:	Blue		Earliest Release Date:	No Parole

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Compton, a Springfield methamphetamine user, was convicted of killing Tesslyn O’Cull, the 3-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. The girl’s body, found in a grave near Sweet Home in 1997, showed signs of being bound, shocked and sexually assaulted. Prosecutors called it the worst case of child abuse they had ever seen. In 1999, Stella Ann Kiser, the girl’s mother, was convicted of aggravated murder for her role in the death and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole

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Early in 1997, Stella Kiser and her daughter, Tesslynn O’Cull, began living with defendant in defendant’s apartment.   The child was approximately two-and-one-half years old when Kiser moved in with defendant.   Defendant frequently hosted “drug parties” at his apartment, some of which lasted for several days.   Defendant frequently prepared methamphetamine for smoking by melting it with a small propane torch.   On at least one occasion, defendant held the lighted torch close to his hand to show his friends that he could withstand a great deal of pain.

Soon after Kiser and Tesslynn moved in with defendant, defendant began abusing Tesslynn.   Defendant hit her on her buttocks and back with a wooden spoon, a spatula, and a belt.   Visitors to the apartment observed defendant slap her in the face, drag her by her hair, force her to stand in the corner for long periods of time, and make her take long, cold baths or showers.   Defendant frequently was angry at Tesslynn, and he called her disparaging names.   Visitors also observed that defendant and Kiser usually kept Tesslynn in the bedroom during the drug parties, and they could hear the child cry for hours after defendant had been in the bedroom with her.   Defendant would not permit others to go into the bedroom to help her.   Eventually, defendant and Kiser kept Tesslynn in the bedroom most of the time.   When a neighbor complained about the way that defendant treated Tesslynn, defendant told him that he would kill the neighbor and the neighbor’s girlfriend if they called the police.

Approximately two months before Tesslynn’s death, defendant broke four vertebrae in her back.   Sometime thereafter, he forcefully penetrated her vagina with an object and inflicted large, gaping burns on the child’s back, buttocks, and genitals using an open flame.   Some of those burns became infected, and defendant poured rubbing alcohol into them.   He also inflicted smaller round burns on the child’s legs.   During the two-week period before Tesslynn died, defendant immobilized her 10 to 15 times by placing her hands and feet over her head and tying them together with ropes, cords, or strips of cloth.   He left her tied up for eight to ten hours at a time.   Within 24-hours preceding the child’s death, defendant struck her in the head several times, causing bruising to her brain, and either punched her in the abdomen or stomped on her with his foot, causing severe internal injuries.   He also scraped and bruised her abdomen with a fork.

Defendant found Tesslynn dead in the bedroom of the apartment between midnight and 2:00 a.m. on June 14, 1997.   Defendant cut Tesslynn loose from her restraints and tried to revive her by giving her CPR. He also struck her in the left side of the chest a few times with his fist, then applied a frayed, live electrical cord to her chest, and splashed her with cold water.   He was unable to revive her.

Defendant and Kiser agreed to leave the body in the bedroom while they thought about what to do.   Tesslynn’s injuries were so extensive that defendant and Kiser feared that they would go to jail if anyone saw the body.   Eventually, they decided to bury the body, which they did with the help of defendant’s sister.   In the days after they buried Tesslynn, defendant and Kiser were happy, playful, and affectionate with one another.   They told friends that Tesslynn was with a babysitter or at Kiser’s aunt’s house and that they were planning to move out of town.   They also told friends that they wanted to have a baby boy.

On the evening of June 16, 1997, defendant’s sister told the Springfield Police Department that she had helped defendant and Kiser bury Tesslynn’s body in the Sweet Home  area two days earlier.   Early on the morning of June 17, Springfield police officers found the child’s body buried in a shallow grave near a logging road in the area that defendant’s sister had described.   They unearthed the body and arranged for an autopsy.   In the grave, they also found, among other things, a piece of cloth that appeared to be torn from a curtain, a strip of gray cloth, a blue braided belt, and a woman’s ring with a pink stone in it.

That afternoon, police officers went to defendant’s apartment.   They advised defendant of his Miranda rights and obtained his permission to enter the apartment and to look around.   Most of the apartment was dirty and smelled bad.   There were many holes in the walls, which defendant had made by punching the walls when he was angry or by throwing knives.

In subsequent searches of the apartment, the police found drug paraphernalia, drug residue, and a propane torch.   They also found a lamp with a cut cord, a pair of pliers with burn residue on it, rubbing alcohol bottles, and white cloths with knots in them.   In a search of a dumpster near defendant’s apartment, the police found two trash bags from defendant’s apartment that contained a Mother’s Day card for Kiser, child’s clothing, an electrical cord that had been cut and had a frayed end, a blue cloth, a white cloth, and a shoestring with knots in them, and a rope.   The cloth and shoestring had hair mixed in with the knots.   Some of the cloth that the police found was similar to cloth that had been found in the child’s grave.

The medical examiner who conducted the autopsy concluded that Tesslynn had died of shock, and he listed the cause of death as “battered child syndrome.” ¹  Defendant was indicted on six counts of aggravated murder, murder by abuse, first-degree sexual penetration, and second-degree abuse of a corpse.   

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