Facts of the Crime:
Sentenced to death for the August 27, 1996 abduction and murder of Susi Larsen, 34, a Tualatin graphic artist. Willford Johnston III and Oatney tied up the victim and took her to a bedroom. They cut off her clothes with scissors and both of them raped and sodomized her. After forcing her to give them the personal identification number to her bank card, Oatney sent Johnston out to get some money from an ATM using the victim's card. When Johnston returned, he saw that the victim had blood on her face and was not moving. Johnston testified that defendant had told him that defendant had hit and choked the victim because she "just wouldn't [have sex with] me." Defendant said that he had tried to kill her, but "the [victim] just won't die." Defendant and Johnston then held a plastic bag over the victim's head until she stopped breathing.
Johnston was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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