Fugitive who allegedly sexually tortured girls in '80s caught in Mexico
Postmedia Network and The Associated Press
First posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 02:25 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 02:42 PM EDT
This 1990 booking photo provided by the Hillsboro, Ore., Police Department, shows Paul Erven Jackson. (Hillsboro Police Department via AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. — A man wanted for kidnapping and torturing women in suburban Portland in the late '80s has been arrested in Mexico after being on the run for nearly 25 years.
Paul Erven Jackson, 45, was arrested Monday by Mexican immigration authorities at a hotel in downtown Guadalajara.
Local authorities are now processing his extradition back to Oregon, where he'll likely face trial.
Police said Jackson and his older brother, Vance Roberts, kidnapped prostitutes and drove them to Roberts' home, 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 kidnap, 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 years old in September 1988 when she was kidnapped after agreeing to perform a $30 sex act on Roberts in his pickup.
Instead, she was raped and driven to a soundproof room in Roberts' house where she was repeatedly assaulted, kept locked in a closet or chained to a bed. She was sexually abused for a week by both brothers, according to the facts at the older brother's trial, and forced to call Roberts "Master X."
She was eventually fitted with a hood, given a bouquet of flowers and pushed out of a car at the same place she was taken.
The second victim was pulled off the streets in June 1990, when she was 17, and taken to the same home.
"It was like a house of horrors, like a dungeon," she told the older brother's trial.
After three days as a sex slave, she slipped out of handcuffs, jumped through a window and reported the men to police.
Jackson appears to have been living in Mexico for several years under the name Paul Bennett Hamilton, Deputy U.S. Marshal Eric Wahlstrom said.
He was most recently featured on CNN's John Walsh's The Hunt, and was profiled several times on America's Most Wanted.
