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Suspect in East Side slaying has long, violent history
By Beth Berger and Marc Kovac
Columbus Dispatch
Archives show Pardon has a long, violent history that began in his teens and has spent much of his life incarcerated.
In March 1979, when he was 14, he was temporarily committed to the Ohio Youth Commission for raping an 8-year-old girl. In July 1979, he was made a ward of the court and temporarily committed to Franklin County Children Services. In December 1979, he was found guilty of menacing and permanently committed to the youth commission and placed in a foster home.
In February 1980, when he was 15, he was convicted of raping a 9-month-old boy, the son of his foster parents. He was babysitting when his foster mother went grocery shopping. He told Columbus police he raped the baby because he was upset after a fight with a girlfriend. A court-ordered psychiatric report stated he needed treatment and should be watched closely.
In November 1981, when Pardon was 16, he kidnapped, raped and attempted to drown the 39-year-old mother of a girlfriend who let him into her Ontario Street home to use the phone. He pulled a butcher knife on her, raped her and took $100 from her purse.
He bound her feet and hands together and gagged her before putting her in the trunk of her car. He untied her feet and threw her in Alum Creek off Sunbury Road. She was partially clothed at the time.
When Pardon saw that she was still able to keep afloat, he waded in the creek and held her head under water. Another man discovered them after he saw the woman’s car with the trunk still ajar. He took off before police arrived. The attacker, who was a student at Linden-McKinley High School at the time, took the cash he stole from the woman and purchased tennis shoes and a jogging outfit. He was on probation from the youth commission at the time.
A psychologist told the court that Pardon cannot control anti-social and aggressive behavior and has a “strong resistance to change.”
At 17, he was convicted of rape, attempted murder, and aggravated robbery in May 1982 after he was tried as an adult and served more than 24 years at Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. He was released in November 2006, a department of rehabilitation and correction spokesperson said.
He wasn’t out long.
Two years later, he was incarcerated in Georgia for two counts of failing to register as a sex offender and two counts of forgery, according to Georgia Department of Corrections records. He was in prison for more than nine years.
Pardon was released in June 2017. That same month he returned to Columbus and registered as a sexual predator with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. He registered on Sept. 22 and then again on Dec. 22. He was compliant with check-ins.
About six months after his release from prison, Columbus police say Pardon struck again, killing Anderson.
https://www.dispatch.com/news/201802...iolent-history
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