Posted on 01/13/2005 4:57:37 PM PST by Ellesu
Ernest Everett Ayers, convicted in two 1980 abductions, has a record of three previous escapes:::
HILLSBORO -- A 52-year-old rapist who has spent most of his adult life locked up is on the loose after walking away from the Washington County Community Corrections Center a second time.
The parole and probation department announced Wednesday it is looking for Ernest Everett Ayers, who was convicted in the knifepoint rape and sodomy of two Washington County women in 1980 and has previously escaped from correctional institutions three times.
Bob Severe, a parole supervisor, said the Washington County Corrections Department announced Ayers's escape "in the interest of public safety." He said Ayers, who escaped Sunday from the center at 260 S.W. Adams St., is considered a predatory sex offender.
"These were just out and out violent crimes," said Washington County District Attorney Bob Hermann, who prosecuted Ayers for the sexual assaults. "These were complete strangers, abducted from the heart of community locations."
Hermann said such crimes are still rare today, 25 years later. "I would think he would definitely be a public safety risk."
Hermann said Ayers kidnapped an 18-year-old Hillsboro woman as she walked to her car in a downtown parking lot, forced her into her car at knifepoint and raped her after making her drive to an isolated area.
He did the same with a 22-year-old flight attendant he grabbed in a hospital parking lot, Hermann said.
During Ayers' trial, Hermann said, Ayers shocked jurors by saying he wouldn't leave a live victim next time. Guards had to tackle him when he made a scene in the courtroom and as he was leaving his sentencing, Ayers screamed that he would kill Hermann, then-Judge Hollie Pihl and Steven Verhulst, his defense attorney.
Ayers served 10 years of the 105-year sentence Pihl gave him. Then Oregon sent him back to North Carolina, where he had escaped from a prison work crew in 1979. He came back to Oregon to finish his postprison supervision on the sex and escape convictions.
Currently, his parole is supposed to end in 2052.
Severe said Ayers probably was suffering from culture shock after his escape and was more intimidated by the outside world than a risk to the public. "I think he's just trying to find something to eat and a dry place to sleep," Severe said.
On the other hand, Severe said, Ayers left before he could be evaluated to see whether he needed mental health and sex offender treatment.
"We just don't know what we have here," Severe said.
The last time Ayers walked away from the county's Community Corrections Center, in December 2002, he was found about a week later in Portland. He was shipped back to the Oregon state prison system for two more years and was returned to Hillsboro on Dec. 6.
Ayers' criminal history dates to 1970, when he was convicted of grand theft and burglary.
While serving a 20-year sentence for armed robbery, Ayers escaped from a North Carolina prison road gang. He ended up in Oregon, where he lived with a sister in Banks. Before long, he was arrested on the Washington County sex charges.
Before his trial, Ayers escaped from the Washington County Jail with two other inmates by prying open an air vent, crawling along a catwalk and dropping two stories out a window. A police dog found the escapees a day later hiding in some brush near downtown Hillsboro.
People with any information about Ayers' whereabouts are encouraged to call police or his parole officer at 503-846-3974.
Ohhhhh, NOW you are in trouble.... Big Trouble.... you come back here RIGHT now ... don't you turn your back on me, Mister .........
Bang, Bang, Bang .... problem solved.
Exactly, this is his 4th escape.
One would think they could hold onto this guy. But that may be asking to much or possibly he is getting some help from the wrong people.
Great! LOL!
Shot dead while trying to escape on his 5th try should be the moral to this story ...
Beat me to it
Amazing how often guys like that die of multiple self-inflicted stab wounds to the heart. Someone ought to do a study.
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