Monday, July 23, 2012

UPDATE: Jeffrey Cutlip Confesses to Murders

From the editor:  Mean Mister Brownsville reported the story May 22, 2012 of Jeffrey Cutlip's arrest in Brownsville as a non-reporting sex offender.  Since he had violated almost every aspect of his parole, including geographical limitations on his travel, no interaction with young people and, of course, reporting as a sex offender, I was very surprised to spot him at a bus stop on Central Blvd. in mid-June.  I called 911 three times while watching Cutlip move to another bus stop after seeing me.  Eventually, Cutlip vanished.  On my third call, dispatch told me that Cutlip was "alright" according to a detective, but they appreciated my call.  



 San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2012


Jeffrey Cutlip
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 63-year-old man with a long criminal record has been arrested in Texas after police said he confessed to two Oregon homicides committed in the 1970s.
Portland detectives arrested Jeffrey Paul Cutlip over the weekend in Brownsville, Texas, police said Monday.
Authorities said he admitted his involvement in two slayings — one in 1975, the other in 1977. However, authorities haven't released the names of the victims or other information about the crimes.
Cutlip is being held in jail in Cameron County, Texas, awaiting extradition to Portland.
"It's always good to close a cold case, make an arrest, give closure to people's families," said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland police spokesman.
Oregon Department of Corrections records show Cutlip has spent most of the past three decades behind bars, in and out of prison for crimes including sodomy, burglary and robbery. He was required to register as a sex offender following a 1982 sodomy conviction. State sex offender records label him a "predator" and say he targets adult female strangers using threats and weapons to gain compliance.

Cutlip was initially charged with several offenses in 1982 and ended up pleading guilty to burglary and sodomy for crimes committed in 1978 and 1982, respectively.

In the 1982 case, a lawyer for Cutlip wrote that Cutlip had a history of mental problems and was admitted to a mental hospital several times since the 1960s, according to Multnomah County court records. The lawyer wrote that Cutlip was taking medication for manic depression.

Cutlip at Brownsville Cheezmeh/Brownsville Loving Valentine's Day Event
Brownsville police spokesman Billy Killebrew said Cutlip called police Saturday and later came in to speak with investigators. Portland detectives flew in Sunday to check out his stories.
Brownsville authorities said he confessed to killing four people. Simpson declined to release any information about what Cutlip has told detectives, including any motive for coming forward or whether he is being investigated for other crimes. He also did not explain why Cutlip was arrested for two crimes rather than four. Simpson said he wasn't sure whether victims' families had been notified of Cutlip's arrest.

Brownsville police arrested Cutlip in April for failing to register as a sex offender, Killebrew said. He told police he'd lived in the area for about a year.

10 comments:

  1. If anything, this again proves that you can hide in a poor town like Brownsville. There have to be others living here who are running from the law. But how to differentiate them from our own criminals - men who run from paying child support and that army of drunks that moves up and down 14th Street on any given Saturday night? It's a curse of the border, lads. That goofy-looking dude who moves in next door may be a Ted Bundy disciple. How many local women did this guy romance. That's the rub: women here are easy and guys on the lam from elsewhere quickly learn that they may not get a job here, but they will get women. It's a sad, sad indictment on the local societal stage, a venue where anything from up north is quickly valued, old guys like this one included. How easy it was for him to melt-in with the night scene. I recall Jim Barton posted a variety of photos of this old man back when the city was pushing that fake "Blues scene." What do you say now, Barton?

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    1. Dear Mr. Files,

      Respect for those from "up north" disappeared sometime 'tween the 70's and the Clinton administration. Wallet size matters to women here just like Austinburg. As for Cutlip, he was a con artist extraordinaire. He fooled almost everyone except my wife Nena who took a strong, immediate dislike.

      No, the conjunto/blues "scene" hasn't expired. It's just in hybernation, like Wightman-Cervantes.

      J

      ps: Please say "hi" to Tad for me.

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    2. Tad Hasse has lost every election he's been in. What a clown. This Cutlip cat looks sorta like Tad. Maybe they are relatives. Just saying.

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    3. Ah, now it's "conjunto/blues scene." Ha ha ha. Try as you may, it won't sell, JimmyBoy. That ridiculous stab at owning the blues you and Jerry "La Piruja" McHale took earlier this year sucked and you know it. Why did you stop pushing it? Cause it never existed!

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    4. You mad bro?

      Ref: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/30403-u-mad

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  2. Parece al Duardo Paz Martinez ese bato.

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  3. Barton earlier identified him as being Junior Bonner.

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  4. Brownsville Cheezmeh/Brownsville Loving Valentine's Day Event - what a joke

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    1. From the pictures at the time, it was attended mostly by middle-aged women without dates. The sexual predator/murderer was available if necessary.

      J

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  5. Tell us the truth Bartron,....did you buy this murderer a drink? Come on Jim....

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