A convicted felon now accused of killing multiple women in the Pacific Northwest was released from an Oregon prison nearly a year early after assisting with the state’s devastating 2020 wildfires, according to court records and state officials.
Prosecutors say 41-year-old Jesse Lee Calhoun is charged with murdering five women in Oregon and Washington in cases that unfolded over several months beginning in 2022.
Authorities allege the victims, sometimes referred to as the “Portland Five,” were attacked and their bodies later found in rural or semi-rural locations around the Portland metropolitan area, though Calhoun has entered not-guilty pleas to the charges…