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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Deborah Lee Atrops ' Murderer Finally On Trial Decades After Tragic Death

The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno

Fox News

True Crime

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:33.3

Decades after she was strangled to death,

0:35.2

the trial for the accused killer of Deborah Lee Aetrops got underway in Washington County, Oregon. Her husband, Robert Atropes, was indicted by a grand

0:42.8

jury in 2023 for second-degree murder after the county's newly formed cold case unit,

0:47.7

re-examine forensic evidence, and witness testimony. The case had gone cold since Deborah was

0:52.2

killed in late November of 1988.

0:58.1

She was found strangled and stuffed in the trunk of her car. She was 30 years old.

1:01.5

From early on, police focused on her husband, Robert, as the primary suspect.

1:07.5

The couple had recently married but were quickly estranged with Deborah having a relationship with a coworker named James Pearson.

1:11.0

Pearson worked with police early on, but committed suicide the week before Robert Atrop's trial was originally set to begin in October of 2024. Pearson was supposed to testify.

1:17.0

The defense team questions the significance of a husband's DNA on his wife's clothing and says

1:21.1

law enforcement failed to consider Pearson as a suspect. There's more on the story at foxnews.com

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