Suspected Portland Serial Killer Stands Silent in Court
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Lee Calhoun has been indicted on second-degree murder, charged in the death of 24-year-old Charity Lynn Perry, 31-year-old Bridget Leann Webster, and 32-year-old Joanna Speaks.
Prosecutors say they’re still investigating the deaths of at least two additional women, Kristin Smith and Ashley Real. He’s also facing three charges of second-degree abuse of a corpse.
All three women were found dead under suspicious circumstances in wooded or secluded areas around Portland last year.
Detectives have linked the murders to a man granted early release from his sentence. Jesse Lee Calhoun, 38, was granted early release after he joined a group of inmates fighting devastating wildfires. Calhoun had been sentenced to four years in prison for felonies including burglary, unauthorized possession of a stolen vehicle, and injuring a police officer and a police dog as they attempted to arrest him.
Calhoun's clemency has been revoked, and he is back behind bars.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
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- Caryn Stark - Psychologist- Trauma and Crime Expert; Twitter: @carnpsych
- Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder; Host of new podcast, "Zone 7;" Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
- Dr. Todd M. Barr - Board-Certified Anatomic/Clinical/Forensic Pathologist (Ohio); Testified in Shawn Grate serial killer case, and featured in "Thin Places: Essays From In Between" by Jordan Kisner
- Annette Newell - KXL News, Host of "Speaking Freely with Annette Newell;" Alpha Media USA (based in Portland, Oregon); Twitter: @AnnetteNewell16
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:05.0 | A moment of truth and a court of law. |
| 0:09.0 | A suspected serial killer, |
| 0:11.0 | Jesse Lee Calhoun, comes face to face with multiple victims |
| 0:15.2 | families in court as he pleads not guilty to brutally murdering three women |
| 0:22.0 | in Oregon and Washington and I strongly suspect |
| 0:27.1 | there are other victims. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. A suspected serial killer, Jesse Lee Calhoun, seemed without emotion |
| 0:39.0 | as he comes face to face in court with the victims families. |
| 0:43.6 | Calhoun 39 is facing three counts of murder, three counts of abuse of a |
| 0:49.2 | corpse and the horrific slayings of 24-year-old Charity Lynn Perry, Bridget |
| 0:56.8 | Leanne Webster, and Joanna Speaks. |
| 1:00.1 | And he pulled a COBurger. His lawyer pleaded not guilty for him on his behalf when he Calhoun refused to speak out loud in court, oh please. |
| 1:14.5 | How did the whole thing unfold? |
| 1:17.9 | I and many others have been screaming from the get-go. |
| 1:22.2 | There is a serial killer stalking Portland. But police not only |
| 1:29.4 | deny it, they come right out and say point blank, we want to address all the quote rumors |
| 1:37.4 | that there's a serial killer. It's absolutely not true. Now we find out what they said is what's not true. |
| 1:46.0 | That's kind of an outright lie. |
| 1:48.0 | I had to put that on the Portland PD, |
| 1:51.0 | but it feels like a kick in the teeth when someone in law enforcement... the did not want to scare Portland women. How about saving Portland women from a |
| 2:07.5 | serial killer and the number one way to avoid being a victim is having knowledge. |
| 2:16.0 | Knowledge that there is a serial killer and this is his MO, |
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