More than half of the state's most serious juvenile offenders will be eligible to seek parole or in some cases given conditional release under Brown's plan.
Link and Thomas remain at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Koch at the Oregon State Correctional Institution and Summers at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, the state's women's prison, Bernt said. The five fled in the victim's car but were stopped and arrested at the Canadian border. They ended up beating her over the head with champagne bottles before Koch shot her in the head with a rifle. The juveniles trashed the 52-year-old woman's home while she was at work and considered various methods of killing her, such as injecting her with bleach or electrocuting her in the bathtub. Others convicted in one of the most notorious crimes in Central Oregon history included Seth Koch, who was then 15 and shot Thomas after she was beaten Justin Link, they 17, who was outside the home but deemed the ringleader by prosecutors and the victim’s son, Adam Thomas, then 18, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Karle, then 16, and Ashley Summers, then 15, each were sentenced to 25 years in prison in the killing.
