ALBANY, Ore. (Court TV) — A Linn County judge set bail at $2 million for an Oregon man accused of killing his girlfriend after a contentious bond hearing that stretched across several months and featured emotional testimony from the victim’s family.
Jerod Norman sits in court during a bond hearing on Nov. 6, 2025. (Court TV)
Jerod Lloyd Norman, charged with murdering 29-year-old Mariah Ashley-Winter King, will remain in custody unless he can post the substantial bail amount set by Judge Keith B. Stein.
The case centers on King’s death on July 18, 2024, at a residence on Nandina Street in Sweet Home, Oregon, located directly across from the police department. Norman called 911 that evening, reporting he had found King hanging in a workshop on the property, but investigators grew suspicious after discovering an unfired rifle round lodged inside her body.
The night King died
Officer Cody McPherson of the Sweet Home Police Department testified he responded to a welfare check at the residence around 9:30 p.m. on July 18, approximately 90 minutes before the 911 call. The check was initiated by King’s mother, Kimberly Lapham, who had concerns after seeing her daughter at a local marijuana dispensary earlier that day…