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LORI BILLINGSLEY - 17 yo - (1982) / Charged: Neighbor Kenneth Lee Hicks - St Helen, Oregon
by twinkletoes Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:38 am
Former neighbour arrested for brutal 1982 cold case killing and sex assault of high school student ‘he was infatuated with’
By Kerry Mcdermott
PUBLISHED: 04:31 EST, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 05:02 EST, 1 March 2013
A man has been charged with the murder of his 17-year-old neighbour more
than 30 years after the high school student was found dead in a ditch.
Kenneth Lee Hicks, now 49, was a neighbour of Lori Billingsley at the time of
her death in Oregon in October 1982. The teenage girl had been beaten,
stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted.
At the time police had insufficient evidence to arrest Hicks - who was the
last person to see Miss Billingsley alive and a prime suspect in the
case - but this week saw him charged with aggravated murder following
advances in DNA technology.
Cold case: Kenneth Lee Hicks, now 49, has been arrested over the murder of
his then neighbour, high school student Lori Billingsley, in Oregon in
October 1982
Hicks, of St Helens, was 19 when Miss Billingsley's body was found in a
drainage ditch in Aloha, west of Portland. He pleaded not guilty to the
charge yesterday, according to a Fox News report.
Sergeant Bob Ray, from the Washington County Sheriff's Office, said evidence
from the case had been submitted to the Oregon St te Police Crime
laboratory in 1991 as DNA was beginning to gain recognition as an
investigative tool. But assessments yielded nothing concrete and the
murder remained unsolved.
In December 2010, retired sheriff's office detective Mike O'Connell
returned to work on a part time basis and began looking into the 1982
murder. He went on to serve a search warrant to obtain Hicks' DNA in
April last year.
This led to Hicks' arrest on Wednesday, said Sgt Ray, who added that the
work of the officer leading the investigation at the time of Miss
Billingsley's death, the late Detective Jim Welch, had been 'invaluable'
to the officers re-examining the case.
'The DNA was just the last piece of the puzzle,' he said.
District Attorney Robert Hermann is set to act as prosecutor in the case he was assigned 30 years ago.
The victim's sister Vickie Billingsley claims Hicks was 'infatuated' with her older sibling.
'...She had a big heart, was beautiful and nice,' she told SalemNews.com.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286369/Lori-Billingsley-murder-Former-neighbour-arrested-brutal-1982-cold-case-killing-sex-assault-high-school-student-infatuated-with.html#ixzz2MIFsntGe
- Lori Billingsley was found dead in a ditch in Oregon in October 1982
- The 17-year-old student had been stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted
- Neighbour Kenneth Lee Hicks, then 19, was a prime suspect at the time
- Police had insufficient evidence to arrest the teenager in 1982
- Hicks, now 49, arrested this week in light of advances in DNA technology
- New video footage contradicts police claim Mr Macia assaulted an officer
By Kerry Mcdermott
PUBLISHED: 04:31 EST, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 05:02 EST, 1 March 2013
A man has been charged with the murder of his 17-year-old neighbour more
than 30 years after the high school student was found dead in a ditch.
Kenneth Lee Hicks, now 49, was a neighbour of Lori Billingsley at the time of
her death in Oregon in October 1982. The teenage girl had been beaten,
stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted.
At the time police had insufficient evidence to arrest Hicks - who was the
last person to see Miss Billingsley alive and a prime suspect in the
case - but this week saw him charged with aggravated murder following
advances in DNA technology.
Cold case: Kenneth Lee Hicks, now 49, has been arrested over the murder of
his then neighbour, high school student Lori Billingsley, in Oregon in
October 1982
Hicks, of St Helens, was 19 when Miss Billingsley's body was found in a
drainage ditch in Aloha, west of Portland. He pleaded not guilty to the
charge yesterday, according to a Fox News report.
Sergeant Bob Ray, from the Washington County Sheriff's Office, said evidence
from the case had been submitted to the Oregon St te Police Crime
laboratory in 1991 as DNA was beginning to gain recognition as an
investigative tool. But assessments yielded nothing concrete and the
murder remained unsolved.
In December 2010, retired sheriff's office detective Mike O'Connell
returned to work on a part time basis and began looking into the 1982
murder. He went on to serve a search warrant to obtain Hicks' DNA in
April last year.
This led to Hicks' arrest on Wednesday, said Sgt Ray, who added that the
work of the officer leading the investigation at the time of Miss
Billingsley's death, the late Detective Jim Welch, had been 'invaluable'
to the officers re-examining the case.
'The DNA was just the last piece of the puzzle,' he said.
District Attorney Robert Hermann is set to act as prosecutor in the case he was assigned 30 years ago.
The victim's sister Vickie Billingsley claims Hicks was 'infatuated' with her older sibling.
'...She had a big heart, was beautiful and nice,' she told SalemNews.com.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286369/Lori-Billingsley-murder-Former-neighbour-arrested-brutal-1982-cold-case-killing-sex-assault-high-school-student-infatuated-with.html#ixzz2MIFsntGe
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Re: LORI BILLINGSLEY - 17 yo - (1982) / Charged: Neighbor Kenneth Lee Hicks - St Helen, Oregon
by mermaid55 Wed May 14, 2014 12:28 pm
Murder suspect in 1982 Aloha killing held without bail
on July 25, 2013 at 6:17 PM, updated July 25, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Kenneth Lee Hicks, arrested this year and accused of killing a 17-year-old Aloha girl in 1982, will remain in jail pending trial.
A Washington County judge on Thursday declined to set bail for Hicks, charged in the death of Lori Gale Billingsley.
Washington County Sheriff's Office investigators linked the 50-year-old St. Helens man to the crime through DNA evidence and arrested him in February on two counts of aggravated murder.
Hicks has remained in the county jail since then. At a Thursday release hearing, Circuit Judge Thomas Kohl found evident proof and a strong presumption of guilt, the findings required to keep a murder suspect in custody without bail.
Authorities say Billingsley was last seen Oct. 9, 1982, with Hicks. Her body was found in a ditch along Southwest Miller Hill Road in Aloha. She was partially clothed and had been sexually assaulted, beaten, strangled and stabbed.
read more:
http://www.oregonlive.com/aloha/index.ssf/2013/07/murder_suspect_in_1982_aloha_k.html
on July 25, 2013 at 6:17 PM, updated July 25, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Kenneth Lee Hicks, arrested this year and accused of killing a 17-year-old Aloha girl in 1982, will remain in jail pending trial.
A Washington County judge on Thursday declined to set bail for Hicks, charged in the death of Lori Gale Billingsley.
Washington County Sheriff's Office investigators linked the 50-year-old St. Helens man to the crime through DNA evidence and arrested him in February on two counts of aggravated murder.
Hicks has remained in the county jail since then. At a Thursday release hearing, Circuit Judge Thomas Kohl found evident proof and a strong presumption of guilt, the findings required to keep a murder suspect in custody without bail.
Authorities say Billingsley was last seen Oct. 9, 1982, with Hicks. Her body was found in a ditch along Southwest Miller Hill Road in Aloha. She was partially clothed and had been sexually assaulted, beaten, strangled and stabbed.
read more:
http://www.oregonlive.com/aloha/index.ssf/2013/07/murder_suspect_in_1982_aloha_k.html
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