A Benton County judge sentenced a man to life in prison for killing his Russian fiancée in the woods near Alsea on Easter in 2017. It was a bloody end to a love triangle in which a popular Corvallis bar served as a backdrop.
It’s the second time William Chase Hargrove, now 35, was convicted in the gruesome execution-style murder of then-27-year-old Anna Alekseyevna Repkina and issued a life sentence.
Hargrove successfully appealed the first murder conviction in 2023, sending him back to court. The first jury also found Hargrove guilty of identity theft and theft for using Repkina’s bank card to get money just hours after her death. He was not granted appeal on those convictions…