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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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Offender Name:

Kiser, Stella Ann

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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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Conan Hale Oregon Death Row

Conan Hale was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for a triple murder. According to court documents Conan Hale would murder Kristal Bendele, 15; her boyfriend, Brandon Williams, 15; and a friend, Patrick Finley, 13, in 1995. Conan Hale would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Offender Name:

Hale, Conan Wayne

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Hale was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Kristal Bendele, 15; her boyfriend, Brandon Williams, 15; and a friend, Patrick Finley, 13, in 1995. Two passers-by found the victims. Bendele and Williams were unclothed, their bodies piled beside a gravel road. Nearby, the body of Finley was dressed in his shorts and T-shirt, Bendele’s pants and a rabbit fur coat. Police charged Hale and his friend, Jonathan Wayne Susbauer, with the killings. Hale and Susbauer blamed each other. Susbauer was sentenced to life in prison.

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In late 1995, defendant, then 19, and his friend, Jon Susbauer, then in his early twenties, began committing a series of burglaries and robberies in the Eugene area. As pertinent here, on December 14, 1995, defendant and Susbauer broke into a woman’s home, stole several thousand dollars worth of her property, and slashed a couch and a stereo speaker with a knife before leaving.

At around midnight on December 16, 1995, defendant and Susbauer drove up beside a car parked on an isolated road in a remote wooded area in Eugene. The men were in a silver, Chevrolet Suburban that Susbauer had stolen a few weeks earlier. Two teenagers, Kara Krause and Jesse Jarvis, were in the parked car. The person on the passenger side of the Suburban got out, approached the parked car, and knocked on the window. He told the couple that they were on his property but that they could stay. He then returned to the Suburban and Jarvis heard laughter. The Suburban drove off.

A few minutes later, Jarvis heard a man yelling. Jarvis got out of the parked car to investigate and, he later testified, a man “jumped out of nowhere.” The man was large and stocky. He was dressed in dark clothing and wore a long coat. His head and face were covered with some kind of mask or scarf; only his eyes were visible. He carried something that looked like a machete and was swinging it like a sword. He spoke in a low rough growl and threatened Jarvis with the machete. He ordered Krause out of the car and told them both to take off their clothes and shoes. When they had complied, the man threw the couple’s car keys, clothes, and shoes into the woods. The man forced Jarvis to lie on the ground and Krause to lie across the hood of the car. He threatened Krause with the blade of the machete and sexually assaulted her.

Jarvis later told police that he thought that the person who claimed to be the “property owner” and the rapist were different people. Weeks later, at two police lineups, Jarvis identified Susbauer as the “property owner” and defendant possibly as the rapist. Krause was not able to identify the rapist when shown the same lineups.

On December 19, 1995, defendant and Susbauer broke into another house and again stole thousands of dollars worth of property including, among other things, a rabbit-fur jacket, a .38 caliber Taurus revolver with wooden grips, and 25 rounds of ammunition for the revolver. Before they left, they again slashed the furniture with a knife.

Late in the evening on December 20, defendant and Susbauer were riding around in the stolen Suburban. Susbauer was driving. They saw defendant’s former girlfriend, Kristal Bendele,¹ 15, her current boyfriend, Brandon Williams, 15, and two other young people, Patrick Finley, 13, and Michael Black, 15. Defendant and Susbauer drove toward them and parked the Suburban. Defendant got out of the Suburban. He was wearing a black trench coat and jeans. Defendant offered the teenagers a ride, which Bendele, Williams and Finley accepted. Black declined. As Black walked away, he saw the Suburban slowly drive off in a different direction.

The next afternoon, December 21, 1995, two men found the nude bodies of Williams and Bendele at a logging landing on McGowan Creek. Bendele had been shot twice, once in the back and once in the left temple. Williams had been shot five times; three shots were to the head and face, one to the chest, and one to the back. Finley, barely alive, also was lying nearby. He, too, had been shot twice, once in the head and once in the shoulder. Among other things, he was wearing the rabbit-fur jacket that defendant and Susbauer had stolen in the earlier burglary. Finley died four days later without ever regaining consciousness.

Police visited Susbauer at his home on December 24, 1995, and seized the .38 caliber Taurus revolver stolen during the December 19 burglary. On December 26, police searched defendant’s bedroom. There, they seized a black trench coat and a machete.

The Taurus revolver later was proved to be the murder weapon; all the bullets recovered at the scene and from the bodies of the victims had been fired from that gun. Testing of the grip of the revolver revealed a mixture of DNA patterns, the most predominant of which matched that of Bendele. Semen obtained from Bendele’s mouth, vagina, and anus was identified as Susbauer’s. Semen on Bendele’s shirt and on the rabbit fur jacket that Finley was wearing was identified as defendant’s.

Defendant and Susbauer both were charged with aggravated murder and various other crimes in the murders of Bendele, Williams, and Finley, in the assault on Jarvis and Krause, and in the December 14 and December 19 burglaries. Susbauer agreed to cooperate and pleaded guilty to, among other things, three counts of aggravated murder. Thereafter, the district attorney decided to seek the death penalty only against defendant.

At the ensuing trial, defendant’s theory was that Susbauer was the rapist and killer and that he, defendant, merely was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Susbauer’s story was the opposite: Defendant was the director of the abuse and murderer of all the victims; Susbauer was a secondary-and, in part, unwilling-accomplice. The jury rejected defendant’s theory and convicted him of 13 counts of aggravated murder and multiple noncapital crimes arising out of the burglaries and the attack on Krause and Jarvis.

Defendant was sentenced on the noncapital crimes at the conclusion of the guilt-phase trial. The trial court then conducted a penalty-phase trial on the aggravated murder convictions. In that proceeding, the jury determined that defendant had acted deliberately in committing the murders, that he posed a continuing risk to society, and that he should receive a death sentence. The trial judge then entered a sentence of death.

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Jason Brumwell Oregon Death Row

Jason Brumwell was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for a prison murder. According to court documents Jason Brumwell who was was serving a life sentence for a robbery committed with fellow death row inmate Michael Hayward would murder a fellow inmate along with the help of Gary Haugen. Jason Brumwell and Gary Haugen would be sentenced to death.

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Offender Name:

Brumwell, Jason Van

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Jason Van Brumwell was serving a life sentence for robbery and his participation in the murder of a West Eugene convenience store clerk in April 1994. Then in 2007 Brumwell, along with fellow inmate Gary Haugen, was convicted in the killing of fellow prison inmate David Shane Polin, 31, in the activities area at the Salem prison.

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A twice-convicted killer from Eugene deserves a second chance to demonstrate to a jury that he does not belong on Oregon’s death row, a judge has ruled.

Circuit Judge Gayle Nachtigal issued a written opinion last week that could mean Jason Van Brumwell will eventually return to a Marion County courtroom for a new penalty phase in a trial related to the 2003 murder of prison inmate David Polin, who suffered a crushed skull and 84 stab wounds when Brumwell and fellow inmate Gary Haugen attacked him inside the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. Brumwell was sentenced to death for the brutal slaying.

Attorneys for the state have not yet decided if they will appeal Nachtigal’s ruling in the post-conviction relief case.

Nachtigal upheld Brumwell’s murder conviction but wrote in her opinion that his attorneys failed “to exercise professional skill and judgment” by not offering evidence that could have swayed the jury to reject the death penalty sought by prosecutors.

Had the lawyers done a better job, “there is a reasonable probability” that the jury would have sentenced Brumwell to a life sentence, the judge wrote.

At the time of the prison killing, Brumwell was already serving life behind bars for his role in the so-called “Dari Mart murder” of a store clerk in west Eugene. Brumwell nearly beat to death a second clerk during the 1994 incident.

Marion County prosecutors presented evidence from the Dari Mart case — including information regarding Brumwell’s interest in satanism and “death metal” music — to jurors who returned the death sentence.

Prosecutors in the prison murder trial also had a doctor testify that Brumwell would present a danger to other inmates were he to continue living among the penitentiary’s general population.

Brumwell’s trial lawyers, however, made “no effort … to contradict (the doctor’s) opinion or to offer a different alternative,” Nachtigal wrote. She added that, furthermore, there “does not appear to have been much, if any, effort to locate an expert to explain Mr. Brumwell to the jury,”

Asked if her agency plans to ask the state Court of Appeals to review Nachtigal’s opinion, Oregon Department of Justice spokeswoman Kristina Edmunson said attorneys involved in Brumwell’s case are “reviewing all of (their) options.”

Kathleen Correll, a Portland attorney representing Brumwell in the post-conviction relief case, declined comment.

Brumwell, 39, made headlines last year when he informed the Oregon Supreme Court that he wanted to drop his appeal and was prepared to be executed. He canceled that request several weeks later.

Since Oregon voters in 1984 reinstated capital punishment, just two inmates have died via lethal injection — one in 1996, the other a year later. Both were executed after choosing not to pursue appeals past an initial review by the state Supreme Court, which is automatically triggered every time a murderer is sentenced to death in Oregon.

Another man involved in the Dari Mart murder, Michael Hayward, has been on death row ever since he was found guilty in the case in 1996. The two other men who participated in the killing testified for the prosecution during trials for Brumwell and Hayward, and took plea deals. Both have since been released from prison.

Michael Hayward Oregon Death Row

Michael Hayward was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for a brutal murder committed during a robbery. Michael Hayward and three accomplices would beat to death a store clerk and severely injure another one during the course of a robbery. The three accomplices would receive lengthy prison terms Michael Hayward would be sentenced to death. Jason Van Brumwell was one of the accomplices and he would later be sentenced to death for a prison murder.

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Hayward, Michael James

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Hayward and three companions – including fellow Death Row inmate Jason Van Brumwell — were convicted of killing a convenience store clerk and severely beating another in 1994. Frances Walls died after a metal bar went through her skull. Donna Ream survived despite being hit more than 50 times with a metal bar and losing nearly half her blood. Hayward’s three companions were convicted of murder and sentenced to terms in prison. Brumwell was later convicted along with Gary Haugen in the killing of another inmate and sentenced to death.

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On April 10, 1994, four young men-Jason Brock, Daniel Rabago, Jason Brumwell, and Johl Brock-met at Brumwell’s house and discussed committing a robbery in order to get money to buy marijuana. They decided to rob the Dari Mart on Royal Avenue in Eugene. That afternoon, they went to the store to see how many people worked there and whether there were surveillance cameras. They returned to Brumwell’s house and continued to discuss the robbery. Jason Brock then went to work and played no role in the events that followed.

The other three drove to defendant’s house in Johl Brock’s car to ask defendant, Michael Hayward, if he would like to join them in robbing the Dari Mart. Defendant agreed to participate and got into Brock’s car to discuss plans for the robbery. They listened to “death metal” music ¹ while they made their plans. Rabago, Brumwell, and Brock, who considered themselves satanists, were members of a death metal band. Defendant was not a member of the band, but he enjoyed listening to death metal music. As Rabago testified, “we were all into evil and we were all pretty much deathers.” Rabago described a “deather” as “someone that has a lot of hate in them and sees * * * the morbid things in life.” During the discussions that took place in Brock’s car, the four young men decided to kill their victims. They also discussed whether they would carve satanic symbols on the victims’ bodies and whether they would leave a message written in the victims’ blood on the Dari Mart wall. During the afternoon, they drove to Rabago’s house to get weapons-a dumbbell bar, a thin metal bar about two feet long with one pointed end, a chisel-type hammer, and a knife. From Rabago’s house, the four drove to the Dari Mart. Defendant and Johl Brock went in, and defendant bought cigarettes. They left the store to wait until closer to its 11:00 p.m. closing time before committing the crimes.

Just before returning to the Dari Mart, the group listened to more death metal music to “kill time” and become motivated about the crimes they were about to commit. At about 10:35 p.m., Donna Ream, one of the two clerks on duty at the Dari Mart, saw defendant standing in front of a window outside the store. He smiled and waved at her. A few minutes before 11:00 p.m., Rabago, Brumwell, Brock, and defendant went into the Dari Mart. Each young man had an assigned “job” with respect to what transpired next.

Defendant, followed by Brock, went to the back of the store. Brumwell and Rabago remained in the front. Brumwell, holding the dumbbell bar over his head and emitting a deep growl, ran toward Ream, who was standing behind the check-out counter. Ream said the growl sounded like a growl she heard later on a death metal compact disc by a group called Cannibal Corpse. Ream jumped back in fright. Brumwell said he was just joking and asked her to give him the money in the cash register. Ream did so.²

Meanwhile, defendant and Brock encountered the second clerk, Frances Wall, stocking the cooler in the back of the store. Brock watched defendant strike Wall in the back of the head with the pointed, thin metal bar, knocking her to the ground. Wall attempted to protect her head from more blows by putting her arms in front of her face. Defendant struck her on the head with the bar five or six more times, striking her as hard as he could. The blows shattered Wall’s skull. Brock left the store, drove his car some 50 yards away and waited for the others to come out. Meanwhile, Brumwell handed Rabago the dumbbell bar and told him to watch Ream while he joined defendant in the back room. At some point, defendant shoved the pointed bar completely through Wall’s skull. She died at the scene.

Brumwell and defendant returned to the front of the store. Defendant, Brumwell, and Rabago then led Ream to the back room. Defendant told the others to hit her. Defendant told Brumwell that he had “killed his” and wanted to know why Brumwell could not kill Ream. Despite Ream’s efforts to defend herself, defendant and Brumwell hit her with the dumbbell bar and the bar that defendant had used to kill Wall. They struck her more than 50 times on her head and on her arms, which she had raised to try to shield herself from the blows. They also kicked her and stabbed her with the knife. She ran into the Dari Mart’s bathroom and tried to shut the door, but was unable to, because both of her arms had been broken in several places. Defendant and Brumwell followed her into the bathroom, where they continued to beat her. At one point Brumwell paused and asked her, “Why won’t you just die, bitch?” Both men yelled profanities at Ream while they beat her. At one point, Brumwell shoved the dumbbell bar into Ream’s mouth, knocking out two of her teeth.

Sometime during the attack on Ream, the young men heard the bell that rings in the back room when someone comes in the front door. They stopped beating Ream and left the store. Ream threw herself against the bathroom door to close it. When she heard a boy’s voice in the front of the store, she called out to him to call the police. Then Ream ran from the store to a house across the street and collapsed on the floor when the residents let her in. A large portion of her scalp was torn off by the blows to her head, a disk in her neck was herniated, she lost almost half of the blood in her body, and she suffered permanent damage to her arms and hands. Nonetheless, Ream never lost consciousness, and some months later she was able to identify photographs of her attackers, including defendant.

Several months after the Dari Mart crimes, Rabago, Brumwell, and defendant camped in the woods outside the town of Curtin for an extended period of time. While there, they discussed committing another crime, and possibly another murder, after the 1994 Labor Day weekend. They were arrested at the camp just before Labor Day. Soon after his arrest, defendant told police that he was not a satanist, but that he believed that “God is weak and Satan is strong.” During his initial police interview, he showed no remorse for Wall’s murder or the assault on Ream. He declared that Wall’s was just another death, that “life ain’t worth shit,” and that Wall would have died anyway. Defendant seemed amused about the crimes and the fact that he had been arrested.

Rabago pleaded guilty to felony murder, attempted aggravated murder, first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and first-degree kidnapping for the Dari Mart crimes. Pursuant to a plea agreement, if Rabago testified truthfully for the state at defendant’s trial, he would be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Johl Brock pleaded guilty to felony murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery, and first-degree burglary. His plea agreement provided that if he testified truthfully for the state at defendant’s trial, he would receive a sentence of 9 to 11 years. A jury convicted Brumwell of aggravated murder, intentional murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder, first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree burglary. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Rabago, Johl Brock, Jason Brock, and Donna Ream testified for the state at defendant’s trial. As noted at the outset, defendant was convicted of three counts of aggravated murder and many other crimes. During the penalty phase, defendant testified that he read the bible in prison, that he now believes in God, and that he cares about the victims’ families. The jury voted unanimously to impose the death penalty.

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Matthew Thompson Oregon Death Row

Matthew Thompson was sentenced to death by the State of Oregon for a double murder. According to court documents Matthew Thompson was kicked out of a tavern and would return later armed with a knife. Matthew Thompson would stab to death Andrew J. McDonald and would injure Deborah Oyamada Matthew Thompson would also stab to death Paul Whitcher later that night. Matthew Thompson was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Thompson, Matthew Dwight

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bout 10:30 p.m. on November 18, 1994, Andrew McDonald and his wife, Debra Oyamada, were at the Driftwood Tavern in Portland. Defendant and his companion, Paul Whitcher, entered the tavern and ordered a pitcher of beer. Oyamada was sitting at a video poker machine and McDonald was sitting at the bar. Defendant was wearing a plaid shirt. Defendant and Whitcher approached Oyamada. Defendant asked Oyamada if she was from “the ‘samurai family’ ” or “from samurai blood.” She responded, “As a matter of fact, yes, I am.” Defendant continued, but Oyamada said she did not want to talk. Oyamada turned her back to defendant because she thought those were “weird questions” and that defendant was “overbearing.” Defendant persisted, saying, “I need to know about it. I’m a warrior and I want to know about this.” Oyamada replied that she did not want to talk about it. Defendant then sat next to Oyamada. She said, “You’re sitting in someone else’s seat.” After that, defendant got up from the seat and started to walk toward the door. As they walked, McDonald approached defendant and Whitcher and said, “Please leave her alone, she doesn’t want to talk about it.” Pat Disciascio, the bartender, became concerned, and he directed defendant and Whitcher to leave the tavern. When defendant and Whitcher did not leave immediately, Disciascio said “Good night, you guys,” and pointed toward the door. As defendant and Whitcher left the tavern, one of the two men said, “I feel like killing somebody tonight.” Defendant and Whitcher then stood outside, where defendant said to Whitcher, “I’m going to go back in there and kick that guy’s ass.” Defendant stated to Whitcher, “If we do this, you know, we’re going to jail.”

Between five and ten minutes after leaving, defendant ran into the tavern alone, grabbed McDonald from behind, began striking him, and dragged him outside. Oyamada tried to pry defendant off of McDonald. Defendant then turned on Oyamada, hitting her in the head, throwing her to the ground, and stabbing her in the head and neck. Bill Jones, another tavern patron, grabbed defendant. Defendant stabbed Jones six times. Defendant then ran away. Ambulances took McDonald, Oyamada, and Jones to the hospital. McDonald died as a result of his wounds.

Defendant and Whitcher went to defendant’s grandmother’s home, where defendant lived. Defendant introduced Whitcher to his grandmother, then she went to her room to sleep. About 1:30 a.m. that night, defendant’s grandmother awoke and went downstairs because she heard a lot of noise. She saw Whitcher cleaning up broken glass and defendant cleaning grape juice off the rug. She asked Whitcher to leave. Defendant said that he was going to see that Whitcher got home safely, and the two men left the house. When defendant returned shortly, his grandmother was still cleaning grape juice. Defendant said he would clean the grape juice and told his grandmother to go to bed, which she did. Before she fell asleep, she heard the washing machine running.

About 1:30 a.m. that night, Sally Woolley called “911” to report that she heard loud, angry, male voices outside her home. Woolley reported that a man was lying face down in the street. Another man, wearing a plaid shirt, was kneeling over him and rolled him partially onto his side. The man in the plaid shirt rummaged through the other man’s pockets, then ran away.

The police arrived. The man on the street was identified as Whitcher. He had been stabbed sixteen to twenty times and was dead. One pocket had been turned inside out.

About 2:00 a.m. that night, the police found defendant walking nearby. He smelled of alcohol and was nervous and evasive. His shoes were untied and, although it was a cold night, he was sockless. One eye was swollen. The police thought that defendant might have witnessed Whitcher’s stabbing and questioned him. After denying that the had been in an altercation, defendant stated that he lived nearby with his grandmother, but gave the police his mother’s address. He denied ever having been arrested or being on probation. After a record check indicated that he had been arrested and that currently he was on probation, defendant was taken into custody.

The police first contacted defendant’s mother, who stated that defendant did not live with her. She gave the police defendant’s grandmother’s address. The police contacted defendant’s grandmother at her home. She invited the officers into her home and gave them permission to look around. Defendant’s grandmother then led them to the washing machine in the basement and opened the lid. Blood was smeared on the outside of the machine. The washed clothing in the machine had stains consistent with blood. The grandmother told police that the clothing in the machine was defendant’s. The state’s criminologist concluded that the DNA recovered from the top of the washing machine, and from jeans, a shoelace, and a sock found in the washing machine, was consistent with Whitcher’s.

At 12:30 p.m. on November 19, 1994, detectives returned to defendant’s grandmother’s home with a search warrant. After finding no weapons, the police left. The returned around 5:00 p.m. that day. With defendant’s grandmother’s consent, the detectives searched her basement. A detective found a bloody knife on a cross-beam and a blood-smeared wallet inside a wood stove. The knife was consistent with defendant’s grandmother’s description of a knife defendant owned. The state’s criminalist concluded that the blood on the knife and wallet matched Whitcher’s blood type.

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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

Age:	45	DOB:	12/1975	Location:	Two Rivers Correctional Institution
Gender:	Male	Race:	White Or European Origin	Status:	AIC
Height:	5′ 08”	Hair:	Brown	Field Admission Date:	05/28/1998
Weight:	244 lbs	Eyes:	Brown	Earliest Release Date:	Death

Age:	45	DOB:	09/1975	Location:	Snake River Correctional Institution
Gender:	Male	Race:	White Or European Origin	Status:	AIC
Height:	5′ 10”	Hair:	Brown	Field Admission Date:	01/30/1996
Weight:	205 lbs	Eyes:	Hazel	Earliest Release Date:	Death

Age:	45	DOB:	06/1975	Location:	Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:	Male	Race:	White Or European Origin	Status:	AIC
Height:	5′ 11”	Hair:	Blond	Field Admission Date:	03/04/1996
Weight:	185 lbs	Eyes:	Blue	Earliest Release Date:	Death

Age:	50	DOB:	11/1970	Location:	Oregon State Penitentiary
Gender:	Male	Race:	White Or European Origin	Status:	AIC
Height:	5′ 10”	Hair:	Brown	Field Admission Date:	07/15/1992
Weight:	155 lbs	Eyes:	Green	Earliest Release Date:	Death