The Hunt leads to long-wanted kidnapper

[waltky]

Time catches up with kidnapper...

US fugitive captured in Mexico and repatriated
Thu, Oct 01, 2015 - A fugitive wanted in the kidnapping and torture of two women in suburban Portland nearly a quarter century ago was arrested at a hotel in Mexico, where he had been working and living under an assumed name.

Paul Erven Jackson, 45, on Monday was arrested by Mexican immigration authorities in downtown Guadalajara, Deputy US Marshal Eric Wahlstrom said. He was flown to the US overnight and booked into a Los Angeles jail on Tuesday. Jackson was most recently featured on CNN’s John Walsh’s The Hunt, and was profiled several times on Walsh’s previous TV show America’s Most Wanted. A tipster who watched The Hunt told authorities to look in Guadalajara and provided a possible name. Investigators used the information to find out where Jackson was working. “We always follow up with everything we get and this one turned out to be it, so we’re very happy,” Wahlstrom said.

Jackson appears to have been living in Mexico for several years under the name Paul Bennett Hamilton, Wahlstrom said. Portland police said Jackson and his older brother, Vance Roberts, kidnapped prostitutes and drove them to Roberts’ home in Hillsboro, west of Portland. The brothers were arrested in 1990, but vanished early the following year after their mother bailed them out of jail. Roberts surrendered in September 2006 and was convicted the following year of kidnapping, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and sexual penetration with a foreign object. The 61-year-old is serving a 108-year prison sentence.

The first victim was 20 in September 1988 when she was kidnapped after agreeing to perform a US$30 sex act on Roberts in his pickup, according to details from the older brother’s trial. She said Roberts kept her in a locked closet when she was not chained to a bed. She was sexually abused for a week and forced to call him “Master X.” The second victim was pulled off the streets in June 1990, when she was 17. After a day as a sex slave, she escaped her handcuffs, jumped through a window and reported the men to police.

US fugitive captured in Mexico and repatriated - Taipei Times

 

[DarkFury]

I do hope they can put him away for life.