Portland Has an Apparent Serial Killer. His Accomplice May Be the Governor

[PeteS in CA]

Portland Has an Apparent Serial Killer. His Accomplice May Be the Governor

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/07/18/portland-has-an-apparent-serial-killer-his-accomplice-may-be-the-governor-who-freed-him-early-from-prison-n1711354

... when she was on her way out office, (Governor Kate) Brown abolished the death penalty.
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... she failed to consult or seek the consent of the governed even though Oregonians endorsed the death penalty in the 1980s in a state-wide vote.
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But as Willamette Week reports, Brown’s act of generosity to killers and other criminals appears to have backfired on law-abiding Oregonians.
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Investigators believe that at least four, and possibly as many as six, people died at the hands of a man let out of prison by Brown.

Nearly two years later, on June 1, 2023, The Oregonian reported the discovery of the bodies of six young women: Kristin Smith, found Feb. 19 in Southeast Portland; Joanna Speaks, found April 11 in Ridgefield, Wash.; Charity Perry, found April 24 at Ainsworth State Park in east Multnomah County; an unidentified woman, also found April 24, in Lents, although the Portland Police Bureau said it did not suspect foul play; Bridget Webster, found April 30 in Polk County; and Ashley Real, found May 7 in Clackamas County.