Police name victims in 1970s Portland cold cases
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Two of the killing victims of a 63-year-old man who has come forward after more than three decades were a 44-year-old woman and a teenage girl, Portland police say.
Police in Texas said that Jeffrey Paul Cutlip called them over the weekend and has confessed to four killings.
In Portland on Tuesday, the Police Bureau released the names of two victims and a few details of the crimes. It had no word on other killings but said its investigation isn't done.
Police say one victim was Marlene Claire Carlson, 44, who was found strangled in her apartment in August 1975.
She was found on her bed, with her hands bound and a belt around her neck, The Oregonian reported. She had last been seen a week earlier.
The second victim was 15-year-old Julie Marie Bennett. She was found face down in Johnson Creek in April 1977, two days after she disappeared.
The Oregonian reported on accounts from the time, saying Bennett encountered Cutlip at a park and left a friend to go with him to buy beer and cigarettes. The friend reported her missing when she didn't return.
A Brownsville, Texas, officer, Billy Killebrew, said Cutlip told police there that his conscience was bothering him and that he was "having a hard time dealing with what he'd done."
Cutlip has a long criminal history and was required to register as a sex offender in Oregon after he was charged in 1982 with burglary and sodomy in attacks on two other women. He was convicted in one case and pleaded guilty in a second. The state lists him as a predatory sex offender, using threats of violence and weapons against women.
He was released from prison in 1993 but returned seven times for parole violations. He had been in Brownsville for more than a year and was wanted on a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender. He wasn't given permission to leave Oregon, parole officials said.
Cutlip made an initial appearance Tuesday in Texas, Portland police said, and an extradition hearing is scheduled on Wednesday.
Police in Texas said that Jeffrey Paul Cutlip called them over the weekend and has confessed to four killings.
In Portland on Tuesday, the Police Bureau released the names of two victims and a few details of the crimes. It had no word on other killings but said its investigation isn't done.
Police say one victim was Marlene Claire Carlson, 44, who was found strangled in her apartment in August 1975.
She was found on her bed, with her hands bound and a belt around her neck, The Oregonian reported. She had last been seen a week earlier.
The second victim was 15-year-old Julie Marie Bennett. She was found face down in Johnson Creek in April 1977, two days after she disappeared.
The Oregonian reported on accounts from the time, saying Bennett encountered Cutlip at a park and left a friend to go with him to buy beer and cigarettes. The friend reported her missing when she didn't return.
A Brownsville, Texas, officer, Billy Killebrew, said Cutlip told police there that his conscience was bothering him and that he was "having a hard time dealing with what he'd done."
Cutlip has a long criminal history and was required to register as a sex offender in Oregon after he was charged in 1982 with burglary and sodomy in attacks on two other women. He was convicted in one case and pleaded guilty in a second. The state lists him as a predatory sex offender, using threats of violence and weapons against women.
He was released from prison in 1993 but returned seven times for parole violations. He had been in Brownsville for more than a year and was wanted on a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender. He wasn't given permission to leave Oregon, parole officials said.
Cutlip made an initial appearance Tuesday in Texas, Portland police said, and an extradition hearing is scheduled on Wednesday.
He just wants a warm place to live. I say Kill him.
I'm all for execution without trial. He says himself that he's guilty so........hang him. I don't understand why we protect the guilty. There are people who like to going prison. 3 meals a day, no taxes, no bills, medical care, warm bed, school, church. Sound like he just wants to get into one of our exclusive maximum security retirement homes.
If this creep truly had a conscience, then he wouldn't have committed these crimes in the first place. Make me wonder what the real reason for him coming forward is. My condolences to the victims' loved ones. I'm sure this turn of events is opening some wounds.
In his case, beauty (or ugly) is skin deep..... what an evil SOB.
Could Hollywood cast a better serial killer than this guy?
man, look at that guy, seriously. Definitely no day at the beach to look at
@northwestsurfer What scares me is that he looks very much like my ex-brother-in-law!
What a handsome fella.
Elaine2 I think you might be on to something there. Plus he is tired of living on the street needs heath care 4 hots and cot. thank you taxpayer. :>)
Time to retire, probably tired of doing whatever he does to get money. @BocaBob
Where was this piece of crap's conscience when he was performing these heinous crimes? Guess he must be near death and wondering what's next? I think it might be hell.