{"id":45759,"date":"2025-08-06T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45759"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:36:13","slug":"oregon-man-accused-of-killing-3-women-and-dumping-their-bodies-is-indicted-on-fourth-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45759","title":{"rendered":"Oregon man accused of killing 3 women and dumping their bodies is indicted on fourth murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 A man accused of killing three women<\/a> in the Portland area and dumping their bodies has been indicted on a fourth murder charge, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grand jury has indicted Jesse Lee Calhoun in the November 2022 death of 22-year-old Kristin Smith, Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez said during a news conference. The new indictment, which comes roughly 2 1\/2 years after Smith\u2019s remains were found, adds one count each of second-degree murder and abuse of a corpse to Calhoun\u2019s case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calhoun was indicted last year in the deaths of Charity Perry, 24; Bridget Webster, 31; and Joanna Speaks, 32. He pleaded not guilty to the three counts each of second-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the initial indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He remains in custody in Multnomah County\u2019s Inverness Jail, and his trial is expected to be held in 2027, authorities said. His defense attorney, Cameron Taylor, declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Smith, Kristin Smith\u2019s mother, said she was \u201coverwhelmed with emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always stayed hopeful that I would get justice for Kristin,\u201d she said at the news conference. \u201cI thank every single person who didn\u2019t give up on this case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry, Webster and Smith were found in Oregon, while Speaks was found in an abandoned barn in southwestern Washington. Their bodies were found<\/a> over several months starting in early 2023 \u2014 in wooded areas, in a culvert and under a bridge \u2014 in a roughly 100-mile (160-kilometer) radius, sparking concern that a serial killer might be targeting young women in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police and prosecutors have shared little information in the case. The death of another woman during that time period is still being investigated, Vasquez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calhoun was arrested in June 2023 on unrelated parole warrants and indicted in May 2024 in the women\u2019s deaths. The indictment came weeks before Calhoun was due to be released from state prison, where he was returned in 2023 to finish serving a four-year term for assaulting a police officer, trying to strangle a police dog, burglary and other charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was initially released in 2021, a year early, because he helped fight wildfires in 2020 under a prison firefighting program. Gov. Tina Kotek revoked the commutation<\/a> in 2023 when police began investigating him in the deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 A man accused of killing three women in the Portland area and dumping their bodies has been indicted on a fourth murder charge, authorities said Tuesday. A grand jury has indicted Jesse Lee Calhoun in the November 2022 death of 22-year-old Kristin Smith, Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez said during a news conference. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[34250,1884,1350,1584,34249],"class_list":["post-45759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-dumped-bodies","tag-killed","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-three-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45761,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759\/revisions\/45761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}