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Men use drain grate to try
to shatter window
By Kyle Spurr
EO Media Group
A Seaside man accused
of attempted murder in a
hammer attack and another
inmate attempted to escape
from Clatsop County Jail
early Sunday morning, July
12.
Kevin Michael Burnham
and Anthony Craig Osborne
broke off a shower drain
grate, tied it to a bedsheet
and swung it against a win-
dow until the window shat-
tered.
7he inmates then Àooded
a toilet in the cellblock and
added soap to make the Àoor
slippery for any responding
corrections of¿cers.
Their plan was foiled
once a corrections of¿cer
started hearing the mufÀed
thumping sound of the grate
hitting the window.
“They put soapy water
all over the Àoor,´ Clatsop
County Sheriff Tom Ber-
gin said. “Had the correc-
tions of¿cers gone in they
KEVIN MICHAEL BURNHAM
ANTHONY CRAIG OSBORNE
could have slipped and fell.
Our corrections of¿cers are
smart enough not to rush
into something like that.´
The of¿cers detained
Burnham and Osborne at
about 1 a.m. Sunday and
placed them back into a dif-
ferent part of the jail. They
are both being charged with
¿rst-degree attempted es-
cape and ¿rst-degree crim-
inal mischief.
Burnham, 25, of Seaside,
is in custody for attempted
murder after allegedly as-
saulting another man with a
hammer in February. His de-
fense attorney and the pros-
ecution are trying to reach a
plea deal on the case.
Prosecutor Dawn Buz-
zard said she is not budging
from her offer of 70 months,
or about six years, in prison
for Burnham to plead to a
lesser charge of second-de-
gree robbery.
Burnham reportedly told
of¿cers the reason he tried
to escape was because the
District Attorney¶s Of¿ce
gave him such a bad deal on
the attempted murder case.
Osborne, 24, of Seaside,
is in custody on theft, bur-
glary and drug charges.
The new charges could
add about 30 months, or
more than two years, to
their sentences.
“They conceived a
scheme to break out and
fortunately the staff was far
too attentive for that to oc-
cur,´ Bergin said.
The two inmates shared
a cellblock with 13 other
inmates when they made
the attempted escape. The
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A shattered window is shown from the outside of Clatsop County Jail. Kevin Michael Burnham
and Anthony Craig Osborne attempted to escape from Clatsop County Jail around 1 a.m. Sun-
day, July 12, by swinging a shower drain grate tied to a bedsheet against the window.
other inmates had to be re-
moved from the cellblock
and held in a library space,
while maintenance crews
temporarily ¿xed the bro-
ken window shortly after 2
a.m. Sunday.
Burnham and Osborne
took about 20 swings
against the window. A cou-
ple of more swings and they
could have broken through
the window, which is large
enough for them to get
through.
The estimated damage
could cost between $4,000
and $5,000 to ¿x, according
to the jail.
“They were actually able
to shatter the window,´ Ber-
gin said. “,t was de¿nitely
weakened enough it was
getting close.´
Escape attempts are rare
at the jail, Bergin said. The
last one he remembers is be-
fore his time as sheriff, when
an inmate jumped from the
roof of a recreation area, and
was caught a day later.
Burnham and Osborne
are scheduled to appear
in Clatsop County Circuit
Court next week for arraign-
ment on the new charges.
Judge grants request for separate trials for accused toddler killers
By Kyle Spurr
EO Media Group
The Seaside mother and
live-in boyfriend accused
of murdering the woman’s
2-year-old daughter last
December will be tried at
separate trials next year.
Dorothy Ann Wing, 25,
and Randy Lee Roden, 27,
were co-defendants set to
face trial next April.
After a hearing in ear-
ly July in Clatsop County
Circuit Court, Judge Paula
Brownhill granted a request
from the couple’s defense
lawyers to sever the cases.
Wing is now scheduled
for trial in March, one
month before Roden, whose
trial remains in April.
Clatsop County Chief
Deputy District Attorney
Ron Brown said an obsta-
cle to keeping the couple as
co-defendants was the fact
that Wing and Roden have
different charges. Roden’s
charges have the possibility
of the death penalty, while
Wing’s charges do not. Two
different juries would have
been needed, one for the
death-penalty case and one
for Wing’s case.
“Since we were not able
to ¿gure out a way to have
two juries at the same time
at the same courtroom, we
need to reset one of these
cases,´ Judge Brownhill
said.
Roden was indicted on
15 counts. The charges in-
clude four counts of aggra-
vated murder, two counts
of murder by abuse, fel-
ony murder, ¿rst-degree
unlawful sexual penetra-
tion, ¿rst-degree sex abuse,
three counts of ¿rst-degree
assault and three counts of
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criminal mistreatment. The
sex-abuse charges relate to
Roden allegedly subjecting
the girl to sexual contact
by touching. Wing was in-
dicted on counts of mur-
der by abuse from neglect
and maltreatment, ¿rst-de-
gree manslaughter and six
counts of criminal mistreat-
ment.
The alleged crimes oc-
curred Oct. 31 to Dec. 20
of last year. An autopsy
found Wing’s daughter,
Evangelina Wing, was the
victim of homicide and
apparently died from blunt
force trauma. She would
have turned 3 on Jan. 22.
In their motions to sever,
Roden’s defense lawyer,
Conor Huseby, and Wing’s
defense lawyer, John Gut-
bezahl, argue the couple
made incriminating state-
ments about the events and
both implicate the other.
The couple told investiga-
tors about incidents where
the 2-year-old girl fell com-
ing from a bus stop, fell off
of a toilet and got in tussles
with Wing’s two sons, ages
5 and 2, who were found in-
jured the same day Wing’s
daughter was found dead.
The boys were hospitalized
and placed in state protec-
tive custody. Wing remains
in custody without the pos-
sibility of bail.
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