A teenager convicted in the brutal rape and beating of a Eugene
woman near Autzen Stadium is now accused in the killing less
than a month earlier of a woman at a Cedar Mill apartment
complex, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
Jaime Tinoco, 17, faces charges of aggravated murder and
unlawful use of a weapon in the Aug. 19 stabbing death of 29-
year-old Nicole Laube, who lived in Forest Grove and worked at
the Commons at Timber Creek Apartments complex, said Sgt. Bob
Ray, a sheriff's office spokesman. Tinoco and Laube did not know
each other, but Tinoco lived with his parents across Northwest
Barnes Road from the place where Laube was killed. Investigators
think Tinoco attacked Laube with a plan to sexually assault her.
Tinoco was indicted on the murder charge late Tuesday afternoon
and will be arraigned Thursday in Washington County Circuit
Court. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Salem, where he is
serving a 14-year prison sentence for the Eugene rape. He was
then booked at Washington County Jail.
Four days after his Eugene arrest, Washington County detectives
questioned him about Laube's killing, Ray said.
Tinoco admitted last month to beating and raping the Eugene
woman after an Oregon Ducks football game. At his sentencing,
the teen struggled to hide a smile as his 39-year-old victim
recounted being sexually assaulted and repeatedly punched in the
face. At the time of the Sept. 13 attack, Tinoco was on
probation in Washington County. He broke away from a supervised
outing to a University of Oregon football game to commit the
crime.
After Tinoco was sentenced, a Eugene detective again questioned
Tinoco about Laube's death. The investigator received
"significant information" and he notified Washington County
detectives right away, Ray said.
"The detectives worked together to obtain information that led
them to believe that Jaime Tinoco murdered Nicole Laube," Ray
wrote in a news release.
Laube was killed 25 days before the rape.
About 5:10 p.m. on Aug. 19, sheriff's deputies received a 911
call from a resident reporting a stabbing at the Commons at
Timber Creek Apartments in Washington County's Cedar Mill area.
Laube was fatally stabbed in the chest while she was hanging
lease renewal flyers near a parking lot. Wounded in the attack,
she staggered to an apartment resident and described her
attacker, Ray said. She said he was wearing a dark hooded
sweatshirt and camouflage pants.
Laube died at the scene.
A witness also described seeing a man dressed in a dark-colored
hoodie at the apartments when the stabbing occurred. The case
started as a whodunit, Ray said.
Deputies searched the area but did not find her killer.
Investigators did find items nearby, believed to be possibly
related to her killing. Investigators, Ray said, are still
awaiting results from the crime lab's forensic analysis.
Based on witness accounts, investigators drafted a composite
sketch of a suspect and released it Sept. 15. Dozens of tips
poured in, Ray said, but no arrests were made.
On Sept. 13, Tinoco was arrested in Eugene. In that case, Tinoco
followed his victim, knocked her out from behind and dragged her
to bushes near Autzen Stadium at about 8 p.m. -- six hours after
the game let out. He continued punching her and raped her.
Eugene Police found Tinoco at a nearby footbridge and detained
him, the prosecutor said. He had blood on his clothes and shoes.
Tinoco pleaded guilty in March to first-degree rape, first-
degree sex abuse, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree
assault. The following week, a Lane County Circuit Court judge
sentenced him to 14 years in prison. His apparent lack of
remorse warranted the long sentence, she said. And the
community, the judge said, needed to be protected from a
"dangerous man."
The prosecutor said in court that the level of rage Tinoco
exhibited toward the woman was disturbing. Tinoco's attorney
said her client started smoking marijuana at 12 years old and
later moved on to methamphetamine -- going on benders that
lasted seven to 10 days. The drug use likely affected his brain,
she said.
He's the oldest of three children, and his parents tried to help
him, his attorney described. But they couldn't get through to
him by the time he started using meth. At the time of the
attack, he wasn't working or going to school, according to the
juvenile department. Ninth grade was the last he attended.
The rape occurred during a field trip that was part of a
Washington County program to help teens in lieu of jail time.
Tinoco was sentenced last July to supervised probation for
burglary, meth possession and harassment.
The juvenile department has changed its policies following an
administrative review of what happened.
Everton Bailey Jr. of The Oregonian staff contributed to this
report.
-- Rebecca Woolington
rwool...@oregonian.com
503-294-4049; @rwoolington
Comments:
shonzberries 1 minute ago
He is a budding serial killer and should be confined for life.
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Brenda
Brenda 2 minutes ago
release him into the wild and let hunters do the rest.
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Burdenedbylogic
Burdenedbylogic just now
@Brenda
Bad idea. Fewer than 6% of Americans now hunt for sport. He'd
get away easily.
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GameOn56
GameOn56 5 minutes ago
Sounds like there will be changes like greater supervision on
"team outings". Social experiment that went horribly wrong.
This guy needs to be locked away. He has taken one life,
shattered another and countless others affected by his heinous
crimes.
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nevetando
nevetando 7 minutes ago
if you are doing this at 17, you are broken... and lets face it,
there is really no level of rehabilitation for a person this
broken, this early.
I am a pretty open-minded liberal guy, but i also have two
daughters of my own. I believe sometimes you gotta cull the herd.
In other words, if this was Sparta, we should kick him down the
well...
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IamObservin
IamObservin 6 minutes ago
@nevetando Yeah, we should do more "culling"........'cause we
never get it wrong, do we?
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Kevin Monnix
Kevin Monnix 5 minutes ago
@IamObservin @nevetando
You think this guy is innocent? That is funny
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IamObservin
IamObservin 4 minutes ago
@Kevin Monnix Where have I said that? Be careful when you leap
to conclusions, lest you trip over your own judgments.....
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Kevin Monnix
Kevin Monnix 4 minutes ago
@IamObservin @Kevin Monnix
Oh my mistake. So what did you mean when you stated "'cause we
never get it wrong, do we?"
Remember that?
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REALIST503
REALIST503 3 minutes ago
@IamObservin @nevetando to call this POS a cull... is an insult
to culls... he doesn't need death... he needs worse
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REALIST503
REALIST503 8 minutes ago
I can only hope that they don't kill him... but rather issue him
a skirt and heels... he's going to make a real nice girlfriend
for someone...
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Burdenedbylogic
Burdenedbylogic 4 minutes ago
@REALIST503
I was wondering when we'd see the first prison rape fantasy
post. Every story about a creepy criminal.....it never fails.
I don't get the obsession with prison rape. Why is that the
first place many people's minds go to when reading these stories?
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REALIST503
REALIST503 just now
@Burdenedbylogic @REALIST503 because free room and board is not
enough... people like... I mean animals like this are not
candidates for rehab... just to be treated like those who
suffered by their hands
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Brenda
Brenda just now
@Burdenedbylogic
Because you dick heads cry when we mention the death penalty.
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Tactical Bacon
Tactical Bacon 9 minutes ago
"Laube was a mother to two children, overcame Kawasaki Disease
and was a cancer survivor."
"Her goal was to make sure she left this world a better place,"
her husband, Chris, said at a memorial service last year.
"Nicole was a beautiful woman, a loving wife, an amazing mother,
and a friend to all. She was not afraid to share her faith or
opinion with anyone.""
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Hutchy
Hutchy 14 minutes ago
Washington County, a bastion of law enforcement (sarcasm). I
have spent a lifetime watching the misapplication of justice in
that place starting from when I lived there as a boy. Over and
over, they will over-enforce and push for excessive sentences
for relatively light offenses, then when someone like this
psycho comes along they get all kinds of second chances.
I shudder every time I cross into that county.
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pingjockey
pingjockey 14 minutes ago
needle time
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Unintended Consequences
Unintended Consequences 14 minutes ago
How clueless are juvenile officials to take this cretin on an
'outing?' Sounds like pot was his gateway to rape and murder. I
guess everyone doesn't get mellow after using this recreational
product although I'll bet lots of commenters will stand up for
increased drug use based on their own addiction.
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OreOre
OreOre 12 minutes ago
@Unintended Consequences Meth... not supposed to calm anyone
down..
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teater
teater 19 minutes ago
ok, I started smoking weed when I was 12 (over 40 years ago).
Apparently that has something to do with anything, so I thought
I'd let it be known.
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IamObservin
IamObservin 17 minutes ago
@teater Addiction is addiction.
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teater
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