Mike Washington Oregon Death Row

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Mike Washington was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for the murder of a man who testified against him. According to court documents Mike Washington was upset that the victim was dating his ex girlfriend so he would break into his home and assaulted him. When the victim pressed charges and testified against him Mike Washington would murder the victim. Mike Washington would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Offender Name:Washington, Mike Spencer
Age:48dot clearDOB:10/1972dot clearLocation:Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:Maledot clearRace:Black Or African Americandot clearStatus:AIC
Height:5′ 09”dot clearHair:Blackdot clearField Admission Date:05/17/2010
Weight:212 lbsdot clearEyes:Browndot clearEarliest Release Date:Death

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n 2004 Washington killed witness Mohamed Jabbie who testified against him after Jabbie appeared before a Multnomah County grand jury. Jabbie, 33, crossed Washington’s path after he started dating Shirleen Stafford, Washington’s longtime girlfriend, in early 2004. In July of that year, Washington broke into Stafford’s house and beat Jabbie. Jabbie testified about the assault before a Multnomah County grand jury on Sept. 23, 2004. The next night, Washington, who lived in Gresham, walked into Jabbie’s apartment near Clackamas Town Center and shot him seven times.

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Thirty years ago, Akim Jabbie befriended a North Portland family. He drove the family’s matriarch, a woman he called Mother Washington, to church, gave them furniture and his kindness.

On Monday, Jabbie sat in the front row of a Clackamas County courtroom watching as a member of that family, Mike Spencer Washington Jr., received a death sentence for murdering Jabbie’s son, Mohamed.

Mohamed Jabbie, 33, was shot to death Sept, 24, 2004, the day after he testified before a grand jury about being assaulted by Washington. Prosecutors said Washington killed Jabbie to silence him and avoid prison.

On Monday, jurors unanimously concluded that Washington poses a significant future danger to society and should be put to death. Washington will be formally sentenced May 17.

Washington, 37, of Gresham showed little emotion and did not look at the jury as the decision was read.

Prosecutors Michael Regan and Bryan Brock argued that Washington is a dangerous, unrepentant criminal who merited a death sentence. “Mike Washington is well-acquainted with death. He causes it,” Regan said. “He deserves it.”

They pointed to Washington’s 20-year criminal history, which includes convictions for rape, assault, robbery and drugs, and his status as senior member of a street gang — the Six Deuce East Coast Crips.

Some gang members, longtime friends of Washington, attended the trial. Their presence unnerved some jurors and witnesses.

The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office opened a criminal investigation into witness intimidation that may have occurred during the trial, Detective Dan Kraus said Monday.

Jurors heard powerful testimony from some of Washington’s victims: a 34-year woman who was gang raped when she was 13 by Washington and four other teenagers; a woman who was violently choked by Washington; and the boyfriend of Washington’s adult daughter, who was beaten by others while Washington held him at gunpoint.

Investigators immediately identified Washington as the prime suspect, but building the case took years. During that time, Akim Jabbie regularly called prosecutors, detectives, the sheriff, the district attorney — anyone who could pursue the case against Washington.

“He made sure no one forgot about his kid,” said Kraus, the lead investigator.

Mohamed Jabbie, a native of Sierra Leone, legally immigrated to the United States in 1996 and worked as a medical transport assistant. He started dating Shirleen Stafford, Washington’s long-time girlfriend, in early 2004. In July of that year, Washington broke into Stafford’s house and beat Jabbie.

Stafford served as the key witness against Washington. Her testimony, along with cell phone data that pinpointed the location of her and Washington, was crucial to the prosecution’s case. Stafford served as a Judas goat, helping lead Jabbie to his death. She visited him the night of the murder, stepping out of his apartment as Washington walked in and shot Jabbie seven times.

Stafford was charged with murder, but, in return for her testimony, the charge was reduced to hindering prosecution.

Defense attorneys asked jurors to be merciful and look at the full measure of Washington’s life, not just his criminal history. Consider Washington’s dangerous and chaotic childhood, and how it shaped his life, urged Benjamin Kim, one of Washington’s attorneys.

Washington was born while his mother was in prison. During his early years in south central Los Angles, he was exposed to domestic violence, gangs and his father’s drug use. His parents split up when Washington was about 5.

“The law allows for compassion and understanding,” Kim said.

Akim Jabbie did not feel compassion Monday afternoon as he watched Washington leave the courtroom in chains.

“I am a religious man,” Jabbie said. “I always tell people to forgive.”

It was advice he could not heed.

“Right now, I would not be able to. I’d be lying to myself,” Jabbie said. “Maybe down the road.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2010/05/gresham_man_gets_death_penalty.html

Ricardo Serrano Oregon Death Row

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Ricardo Serrano was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for the murders of a woman and her two children. According to court documents Ricardo Serrano found out that the victim’s husband and father had an affair with his wife so he decided to get his revenge by killing Melody Dang, 37, and sons Steven, 15, and Jimmy, 12. Ricardo Serrano would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Offender Name:Serrano, Ricardo
Age:45dot clearDOB:04/1975dot clearLocation:Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:Maledot clearRace:Hispanic Or Latin Americandot clearStatus:AIC
Height:5′ 11”dot clearHair:Blackdot clearField Admission Date:03/16/2010
Weight:160 lbsdot clearEyes:Browndot clearEarliest Release Date:Death

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A Washington County jury sentenced Serrano to death for the 2006 shooting of Melody Dang, 37, and sons Steven, 15, and Jimmy, 12. Prosecutors said Serrano was seeking revenge against Mike Nguyen, Dang’s partner. Nguyen had an affair with Serrano’s wife, Melinda, and got her pregnant.

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Defendant was married to Melinda. After she discovered that defendant was having an affair with another woman, Melinda decided to end their marriage. Around that time, Melinda became romantically involved with a coworker, Nguyen, who lived with Melody Dang and her two sons, Steven and Jimmy. Melody was aware of Nguyen’s relationship with Melinda.

During their relationship, Nguyen taught Melinda various phrases in Vietnamese, which Melinda wrote down in a check register. Melinda kept the check register in her vehicle, to which defendant did not have a key. In July 2006, Melinda discovered that she was pregnant. She believed that Nguyen was the father. In September, Melinda left defendant and moved into her sister’s apartment. When that living arrangement failed to work out, Melinda moved back in with defendant.

As those events were unfolding, defendant became acquainted with two sisters, Madriz–Mendoza and Miranda–Mendoza. Miranda–Mendoza worked with Melinda and Nguyen, but she did not know that Melinda was married to defendant. Defendant asked Miranda–Mendoza questions about her coworkers, including what they looked like, whether any of the women were pregnant, and whether she knew a curly-haired man named “Mike.” On one occasion, as Melinda was leaving work, she stopped to talk with a group of fellow workers—including Nguyen, who was the only person in the group with curly hair. Defendant drove up and angrily told Melinda that she was disrespecting him by talking to the group.

On the evening of November 2, 2006, Melody, Steven, and Jimmy were at Nguyen’s house. Nguyen was at work, as was Melinda. Melody and Nguyen had a phone conversation at about 8:30 p.m. Melody sometimes visited Vietnamese-language internet chat-rooms and often had phone conversations with men whom she had met in those chat-rooms. At about 9:00 p.m., Melody called Tran, a Florida resident whom she had met online. As they were talking, Tran heard dogs barking in the background and heard Melody yell, “Oh my God, Oh my God.” Then the call was disconnected. When Tran called back, there was no answer; he then sent text messages to Melody, but there was no reply.

The next morning, Nguyen returned home from work. The lights were on, and his dogs were barking. Nguyen entered the house through the garage and saw that the house was messy. Then he saw Melody’s body in the hallway. Steven was lying next to her. Their bodies were cold. Nguyen then called 9–1–1. The police arrived within minutes. They observed Melody and Steven lying in the hallway, and they found Jimmy inside a bathroom off the hallway. All three victims had been shot to death.

Three additional noteworthy discoveries were made at the scene. First, when he looked around the living room, Nguyen noticed that a laptop computer was missing. Second, the investigating officers recovered two spent .380 caliber shell casings near the victims’ bodies, along with a live .380 caliber cartridge. Third, there was blood on the hallway floor where the victims were found. Using a chemical test, the officers found shoe impressions in the blood.

Melinda returned to defendant’s house that same morning after her work shift. Defendant was not home and his vehicle was gone. Later that same day, Melinda saw defendant’s vehicle parked down the street. Defendant returned home at 4:00 p.m. He told Melinda that he had not gone to work that day, but he did not appear to be ill.

On November 27, police officers searched defendant’s brother’s house. The officers found two handguns, one a .380 caliber pistol. They also found several magazines for a .380 caliber pistol, along with boxes of .380–caliber ammunition. The .380 pistol was later tested by an Oregon State Police firearms examiner. It appeared to have been recently cleaned. The examiner test-fired the pistol and compared the markings on the test bullets to the markings on the bullets recovered from the crime scene. The markings matched. The examiner concluded that the pistol seized from defendant’s brother’s house had fired the bullets found at the crime scene.

On November 28, police officers executed a search warrant at defendant’s residence. Among other items, they found defendant’s shoes and, in the back of his vehicle, a partially-full bottle of bleach. The shoes were later tested for blood. None was found, but the shoes appeared to have been recently washed. The officers also found Melinda’s check register with the Vietnamese phrases written inside, and they found a key that fit the ignition of Melinda’s vehicle. Defendant was arrested the same day. Later, prior to trial, the state compared the shoe impressions found at the crime scene to the tread of defendant’s shoes. The impressions matched defendant’s right shoe.

Melinda moved out of defendant’s house after the search and his arrest. From time to time, she returned to retrieve belongings but, in the meantime, she left the house unlocked. On January 3, 2007, an employee of a property management company cleaned the garage. Underneath a couch, the cleaner found a laptop computer wrapped in a towel inside a garbage bag. When the computer was shown to him, Nguyen recognized that it was similar to the computer that was missing from his living room.

Defendant was indicted on ten counts of aggravated murder. In Counts 1, 2, and 7, which charged defendant with the murder of Melody Dang, the indictment alleged that defendant had murdered her in the course of the same criminal episode that resulted in the death of Steven (count 1); that he had murdered her in the course of the same criminal episode that resulted in the death of Jimmy (count 2); and that he had murdered her in the course of and in furtherance of his commission of first-degree burglary (count 7), ORS 163.095(2)(d); ORS 163.115(1)(b). The counts pertaining to Steven Dang (counts 3, 4, and 8) and Jimmy Dang (counts 5, 6, 9, and 10) were charged in the same manner, except for count 10, which alleged that defendant had murdered Jimmy, who was a person under the age of 14. ORS 163.095(1)(f). A jury found defendant guilty on all counts. In a separate proceeding, the jury answered the relevant death penalty questions, ORS 163.150, in the affirmative. The trial court merged the convictions into three and sentenced defendant to death.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/or-supreme-court/1664190.html

Jesse Johnson Oregon Death Row

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Jesse Johnson was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for the murder of a woman. According to court documents Jesse Johnson would stab to death Harriet “Sunny” Thompson before robbing her home. Jesse Johnson was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Offender Name:Johnson, Jesse Lee
Age:60dot clearDOB:02/1961dot clearLocation:Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:Maledot clearRace:Black Or African Americandot clearStatus:AIC
Height:6′ 00”dot clearHair:Browndot clearField Admission Date:03/31/2004
Weight:150 lbsdot clearEyes:Blackdot clearEarliest Release Date:Death

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Jesse Johnson was convicted of fatally stabbed Harriet Lavern “Sunny” Thompson, 28, in her Salem house in 1998. Her landlord found her body.

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A Marion County Circuit Judge on Monday denied a death row inmate’s request to order new DNA testing in the 1998 fatal stabbing of a Salem woman.

Judge Channing Bennett wrote in an opinion letter that Jesse L. Johnson’s motion for more testing doesn’t show a clear defense theory that could lead to a finding that he is actually innocent in the killing of 28-year-old Harriet “Sunny” Thompson.

Johnson, now 57, asked to test 37 pieces of evidence, including some for the second time. His attorney argued the tests could open new investigative avenues and possibly lead to new suspects.

But that “chain of ‘ifs'” is too weak to constitute a defense, Bennett wrote. Jurors considered the evidence presented during his trial, including his denial, and found him guilty, the judge said.

“Nothing in the defendant’s argument demonstrates that a jury would more likely than not find him not guilty,” the judge wrote.Read the judge’s opinion.

Thompson was found dead from several stab wounds in her apartment in March 1998. Johnson was later found by police selling some of her jewelry.

A Marion County jury found Johnson guilty of aggravated murder in March 2004 and sentenced him to death that same month. The Oregon Supreme Court in 2007 upheld his conviction and death sentence on appeal. Another conviction challenge was struck down in 2015.

In 2016, attorneys with the Oregon Innocence Project were appointed as his lawyers and they filed a motion in Marion County Circuit Court for new DNA testing. They argued that advances in forensic science and updated techniques could lead to Johnson’s exoneration. They noted DNA analysis and other tests of at least 11 items in the case found no ties to Johnson.

Prosecutors asked the court to the deny the motion last year. Both sides argued their points before Bennett in October.

“The defendant’s inability to articulate a recognized theory of defense that DNA testing would support is fatal to the instant motion,” the judge said.

Johnson knew before his 2004 trial that all of the collected evidence had not been analyzed for DNA, but didn’t request the testing before his trial or during his appeal, Bennett wrote. Johnson also didn’t identify any DNA evidence that was improperly presented to the jury, according to the judge. Jurors also knew that some of the evidence tested, such as the object likely used to kill Thompson, didn’t have Johnson’s DNA.

Steve Wax, Johnson’s attorney and the Oregon Innocence Project’s legal director, said Tuesday that the judge’s ruling was disappointing. Johnson is asking for his claim of innocence to be investigated completely while he is still alive, Wax said

“In our view, the State and the court have misinterpreted the standard the law requires in order to grant DNA testing,” Wax said in a statement. “We believe that this decision is legally wrong and unfair to our client and that there are strong grounds for appeal.”

Johnson remains held at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He is one of 33 Oregon inmates on death row.

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2018/02/judge_denies_oregon_death_row.html

Christian Longo Oregon Death Row

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Christian Longo was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for the murders of his wife and three children. According to court documents Christian Longo would murder his wife and three daughters before dumping their bodies into the Pacific Ocean. Christian Longo would flee and would be featured on the FBI Most Wanted List before being arrested in Mexico. Christian Longo would be convicted of all four murders and be sentenced to death.

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Age:47dot clearDOB:01/1974dot clearLocation:Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:Maledot clearRace:White Or European Origindot clearStatus:AIC
Height:6′ 01”dot clearHair:Blonddot clearField Admission Date:04/18/2003
Weight:200 lbsdot clearEyes:Greendot clearEarliest Release Date:Death

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Christian Longo was convicted of killing his wife and three children on the Oregon Coast. The bodies of the four were recovered from two coastal inlets around Christmas 2001. Longo went on the lam. He landed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list before he was captured in Mexico posing as a travel writer.

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The first hints of the events that would unfold in Oregon came roughly 18 months before the crimes, while defendant was living with his family in Michigan.   On May 26, 2000, Mary Jane Longo called her sister;  she was very upset.   Mary Jane told her sister that she had discovered emails from defendant to another woman;  that she had confronted defendant with those emails;  and that defendant had told her that he did not love her anymore, that she spent too much time and attention on the children, and that she was no fun since they had had children.

In early 2001, because of various financial and legal problems, defendant and the family moved to Ohio and lived for a time in a warehouse.   After defendant became a suspect in the murders, police searched that warehouse.   There they discovered items that had been left behind by the Longos, including Mary Jane’s wedding dress and wedding photos of defendant and Mary Jane. There were also two books:  one was a Spanish phrasebook, and the other was a book entitled The Modern Identity Changer.

Defendant and his family soon left Ohio, arriving on the Oregon coast in early September 2001.   They settled in the Newport area.   Defendant was hired as a part-time employee in the Starbucks coffee outlet located in the local Fred Meyer department store.

Defendant and his family moved into the Newport Motor Inn around the first of November 2001.   Defendant told the manager that he had been sent down from Portland to help set up the Starbucks outlet.

On November 19, 2001, defendant printed off from the Internet the obituaries for four young adult men from the area.   Those printed obituaries would later be found in defendant’s locker at work.   Handwritten on three of the printed obituaries were social security numbers.   When police later captured defendant, he had in his possession one of the four names.

On November 20, 2001, defendant stole a credit card receipt from a customer making a purchase at Starbucks.   After the murders, defendant used that credit card information to buy a plane ticket to Texas.

About November 30, 2001, defendant and his family moved into a condominium.   Defendant told the condominium manager and the front desk person that defendant worked as a subcontractor for Qwest surveying the coast for DSL (a type of high-speed Internet service).   Defendant claimed to both that he had only two children, not three.   Defendant also claimed that his family lived out of town, but he said that they would visit some weekends.2

Defendant had one vehicle, a maroon minivan with an out-of-state license plate reading “KID VAN.” 3 On  December 9, 2001, defendant and his family looked at a green Dodge Durango at the Town and Country Dodge dealership in Wilsonville.

On December 15, 2001, a Saturday, defendant did not work.   That night, Denise Thompson, a coworker of defendant’s, babysat the children so that defendant and Mary Jane could go to dinner and a movie.   Defendant and his wife returned about 10:30 p.m. As far as can be determined, that was the last time anyone other than defendant saw Mary Jane Longo or the children alive.

It is not clear exactly when defendant committed the crimes.   At 2:00 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, December 16, a couple staying in the room directly above the Longos, Mr. and Mrs. Crabb, were awakened by dragging noises that continued for five to 15 minutes.   Mrs. Crabb believed that the noises were coming from downstairs.   Mr. Crabb thought that the noises came from next door;  he called the apartments on either side, but no one answered.   The next morning, the Crabbs complained at the front desk.   They were told that no one had been in the rooms on either side of them.

Defendant’s recorded interview with police suggested that the murders took place in the early morning hours of Monday, December 17. Defendant implied that he killed his family after returning home from work at 11:00 p.m. He indicated that it was either Sunday or Monday, but he could not remember which.   Defendant’s work records show that he did not work on Saturday;  he did work until 11:00 p.m. on both Sunday and Monday, December 16 and 17.

In his recorded statement, defendant said that, when he got home after 11:00 p.m., everyone was asleep.   He had some wine and cheese, went onto the deck to think about his financial problems, then came back in and lay down in bed next to Mary Jane. Madison, the youngest child, was sleeping on the floor of the bedroom on a comforter.   Zachery and Sadie slept in the living room on the couch.   Defendant lay awake for a couple of hours, worrying about his financial problems.   In his recorded statements to police, defendant did not further describe the crime, but he did say that he had “been reliving it [those events] every night.” 4

 Mary Jane was manually strangled.   Her nude body was put into a suitcase and dumped off the dock at the Embarcadero Marina.   Madison, the two-year-old, also was strangled;  her body was put into a different suitcase and dumped off the same dock.   Zachery and Sadie (ages four and three, respectively) both died of asphyxiation, but the medical examiner could not be more specific.   The body of Sadie Longo was tied to a rock and dropped off a bridge on Highway 34 near Waldport.   The body of Zachery Longo was found floating near the same bridge.   Near where Sadie’s body was later found, divers located a large rock inside a child’s pillowcase that had been twisted shut.

At about 4:30 a.m. on Monday morning, December 17, a construction worker was driving on Highway 34 near Waldport.   He found a red minivan stopped in the middle of a bridge.   The worker stopped and asked the driver, a man, whether he needed any help.   The driver said that he did not;  he had pulled over because his “check engine” light had come on.

Later the same morning, at about 8:00 a.m., the harbor master at the Embarcadero Marina noticed a broken pipe under a ramp at the marina.   Divers later discovered the suitcases containing the bodies of Mary Jane and Madison in the water just beneath where the pipe had been broken.

Defendant worked on Monday, December 17, from 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Defendant did not work Tuesday, December 18.   That day, the housekeeping staff at the Newport Motor Inn discovered that someone had put in their trash dumpster children’s clothes, baby books, and a wallet containing Mary Jane’s driver license.

That afternoon, someone stole a green Dodge Durango from the Town and Country Dodge dealership in  Wilsonville and left behind a maroon minivan.   Although the license plate had been removed from the minivan, the foam underneath showed the impression of the letters “KID VAN.” Inside the minivan were two other different license plates.

Late in the afternoon on December 18, defendant spoke with the manager at the condominium.   Defendant told the manager that he had taken his wife and children to the airport, and that he and Mary Jane were having marital problems.

Defendant attended a Christmas party for Starbucks employees the same night.   He was driving a green Dodge Durango.   Defendant told Denise Thompson and another coworker that he had taken his wife and children to the airport.   The party involved a gift exchange, and defendant gave the recipient of his gift a bottle of perfume.   The bottle was not new;  it had belonged to Mary Jane.

On Wednesday, December 19, defendant worked from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. That day, defendant told Thompson and another coworker that his wife was having an affair, and that she had left him for the other man.5  He named the man supposedly involved.   Defendant claimed to Thompson that he was not sure whether Madison was his own child.

In the same conversation, defendant told Thompson that he had put the minivan in storage in Portland.   Defendant also told Thompson that he wanted to install a CD player in the Durango.   Thompson made arrangements for her and her husband to accompany defendant on Saturday to buy a CD player that Thompson’s husband would install.

That afternoon, defendant rented a movie.

The same day, December 19, police discovered Zachery’s body.

On Thursday, December 20, defendant again worked from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. He later played volleyball with a coworker.

 Thompson tentatively identified Zachery’s body on December 21.

On December 21, defendant fled the state and headed for San Francisco.   After he arrived, he applied for a job at a local Starbucks.   Then, however, defendant decided to flee to Mexico.   On December 26, defendant purchased a plane ticket using the information from the stolen credit card receipt.   He left the green Dodge Durango in the parking lot at San Francisco International Airport.   In the Durango, police later found the license plate “KID VAN,” as well as defendant’s checkbook, marriage license, and diploma.

Police captured defendant on January 13, 2002, less than one month after the murders.   At the time, defendant was staying at a campground near Cancun, Mexico.   At the campground, defendant had told other people he was a writer for the New York Times.   He had been touring local ruins and other sights.   At the time of his capture, defendant was sharing a cabana with a woman, and he admitted that he had been sexually intimate with her.

While defendant was being returned to the United States, the FBI agent accompanying defendant asked him about the murders.   Defendant replied, “I sent them to a better place.”

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/or-supreme-court/1410613.html

Eric Running Oregon Death Row

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Eric Running was sentenced to death by the State of Kentucky for the murders of two women. According to court documents Eric Running would enter Ambassador Restaurant and Lounge where he would murder Jacqueline J. Andersonand Barbara J. Gilpin. Eric Running was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Age:70dot clearDOB:01/1951dot clearLocation:Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:Maledot clearRace:White Or European Origindot clearStatus:AIC
Height:5′ 08”dot clearHair:Greydot clearField Admission Date:08/11/2000
Weight:170 lbsdot clearEyes:Browndot clearEarliest Release Date:Death

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Running was convicted in 2000 of the love-triangle shotgun slayings of Jacqueline J. Anderson, whom he had dated, and Barbara J. Gilpin, her sometime lover, in the Ambassador Restaurant and Lounge on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. At trial, Running’s attorneys argued that he killed the two women during a psychotic breakdown fueled by alcohol abuse and feelings of abandonment stemming from his adoption.

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an convicted of killing lesbian couple PORTLAND (AP) – A fit of jealous rage led a Portland man to gun down a lesbian couple in a bar in 1998, a Multnomah County jury decided Wednesday.

Jurors rejected the insanity defense of Eric Walter Running, 49, charged in the Feb. 24, 1998 killings of Jacqueline Anderson – his former girlfriend – and her lover, Barbara Gilpin.

After deliberating for just an hour, the jury unanimously convicted Running of aggravated murder. They will meet July 17 to decide whether he should be executed or face life in prison.

Running and Anderson, who was also known as “Octavia,” had been in a relationship for about two years before the murders. Prosecutors had said the couple fought at the bar and Running stormed off, returning to find Anderson, 29, joined by Gilpin, 44, an off-and-on live-in lover.

A waitress who was working at the Ambassador Restaurant and Lounge in 1998, said Running told Anderson “To come outside or I’ll kill you.” The waitress testified that Running returned with the gun sometime later and shot the two women.

Jurors on Wednesday determined that Running knew exactly what he was doing when he killed the women in front of almost 20 witnesses at the karaoke lounge

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