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March 27,2002
II P olice / V ancouver
Northeast Murder Unsolved
After Two Years of Investigation
Portland Police Bureau Homi
cide Investigators, in cooperation
with Crime Stoppers, are asking
for your help in solving a two year
old murder.
On M arch 2,2000, ju st before
9 p.m ., the body o f H enry J.
Johnson was found near N orth
e a s t R o d n e y a n d S h a v e r.
Johnson, who was alm ost 24
years o f age at the tim e, had
been shot m ultiple tim es.
According to investigators,
approximately 30 minutes before
Johnson’s body was discovered,
there had been a report of “shots
fired,” in the area of Rodney and
Failing, but responding officers
found nothing.
I n v e s tig a to r s
b e lie v e
Johnson may have been w alk
ing dow n the street with an
other individual who has not
been identified at this time. In
vestigators have yet to estab
lish a m otive for the murder.
Crime Stoppers is offering a
cash reward o f up to $1,000 for
information, reported to Crime
Stoppers, which leads to an arrest
in this case, or any unsolved
felony crime, and you need not
give your name. Call Crime Stop
pers at (503) 823-HELP.
Henry Johnson died in a
shooting two years ago.
$50,000 O ffered
in K idnapping Case
Oregon City Police Chief
Gordon Huiras and Charles
Mathews. Special Agent in
Charge o f the FBI in Oregon,
speak to reporters last
week to announce a new
$50,000 reward for
information in the
disappearance o f two
teenage girls. Authorities
believe Ashley Pond and
Miranda Gaddis have been
kidnapped. Anyone with
information is asked to call
the tip line at 1-800822-
0962. (AP Photo)
Lawsuit Claims Mentally 111 Languish in Jails
(AP) — Mentally ill inmates
who are unfit to stand trial too
often languish in county jails be
fore they are accepted for treat
ment at the Oregon State Hospi
tal, advocates claim in a lawsuit.
State law requires that suspects
found mentally incompetent to
stand trial be treated at the state
hospital. But officials say the 400-
bed hospital has a backlog.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday
in U.S. District Court in Portland
after negotiations between mental
health advocates and the Depart
ment of Human Services, which
oversees the hospital, broke down.
Kathleen Wilde, an attorney
for the Oregon Advocacy Center,
said mentally ill suspects’ consti
tutional right to due process is
violated when they await trial with
out getting treatment and medica
tion so they can become compe
tent to assist in their defense.
“ You can’t be held in a punitive
setting, you’ve got to get the treat
ment,” she said.
The lawsuit also is intended to
push the federal court to deter
mine how long somebody can stay
in jail until they are given restor
ative treatment.
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Jury finds husband-and-wife lawyers responsible for woman’s death
(A P ) — A w om an
The prosecution brought
in more than 30 witnesses
w hose tw o huge dogs
mauled a neighbor to death
who said they had been
terrorized by the dogs,
in a San Francisco apart
Bane and Hera.
ment building was con
victed of murder and man
The gruesome case was
slaughter Thursday. Her
a sensation in San Fran
husband was found guilty
cisco: Whipple, a success
o f manslaughter.
ful member of the city’s
Marjorie Knoller, 46,
gay community, was sav
could get 15 years to life in
agely killed outside her
prison for the second-de
door in exclusive Pacific
Marjorie Knoller (right) listens as her attorney,
gree murder conviction in
Heights, her throat ripped
Nedra Ruiz, gives closing arguments. (AP)
the death of 33-year-old
open by an exotic breed of
dogs known for its ferocity.
Diane Whipple. She looked stricken upon hearing
the verdict, taking several deep breaths.
Soon word spread that the owners were lawyers
who specialized in lawsuits on behalf of inmates.
Her 60-year-old husband, Robert Noel, showed
no reaction. Both were also convicted of involuntary
They were also in the process o f adopting an inmate
manslaughter and having a mischievous dog that
white-supremacist gang member Paul Schneider, who
officials said was trying to run a business raising
killed someone.
Sentencing will take place in May.
Presa Canarios for use as guard dogs.
The prosecutors said the 110-pound college la
Murder charges are rare in dog mauling cases, but
crosse coach had been bitten everywhere except the
prosecutors said the husband-and-wife lawyers knew
top of her head and the soles o f her feet.
their two powerful Presa Canarios were “time bombs.”
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