Man who killed Oregon couple in 1987 dies in prison at 67 – KTVZ

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A person who has been serving a life sentence for the homicide of an Oregon couple many years in the past died Friday in jail, officers mentioned.

The Oregon Division of Corrections mentioned in a information launch that Michael Robert Tucker, 67, died on the state penitentiary within the infirmary whereas on hospice care, the Statesman Journal reported.

Tucker entered Division of Corrections custody in 1995, from Polk County. Statesman Journal archives present he was convicted of the October 1987 capturing deaths of Barbara Farmer, 71, and her husband Robert, 70, of their cell house west of Salem in Rickreall.

Tucker and an confederate deliberate to rob the couple with assist from the confederate’s spouse, who as soon as labored for the Farmers, in keeping with Statesman Journal protection.

Tucker admitted he killed the Farmers, every dying from a gunshot to the top.

A 12 months later, a Polk County Circuit Court docket jury discovered Tucker responsible of 10 counts of aggravated homicide, two counts of first-degree theft and one depend of first-degree housebreaking. The aggravated homicide costs, 5 for every sufferer, have been introduced below totally different sections of the regulation associated to a number of killings.

The identical jury sentenced Tucker in 1988 to loss of life by deadly injection.

The Oregon Supreme Court docket, the place loss of life penalty instances are routinely appealed, upheld Tucker’s convictions in 1993 however overturned the loss of life sentence, returning the case to Polk County for a brand new jury to resolve sentencing. He was sentenced to life in jail in 1995.