Dale Rost III was a father of five from Oregon when he went out to walk his dog just before Christmas in 2005 and encountered a couple of meth-fueled thugs who forced him to strip naked and tied him up.
They ransacked his house, took his wallet, and shot him through the eye at point-blank with a .22 rifle.
His now-adult children say they are appalled that Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is considering clemency for one of the suspects in the heartless murder of their father two days before Christmas 17 years ago.
Lynley Janet Rayburn and her then-boyfriend Gerard “AJ” Smith went out on the early morning of Dec. 23, 2005 – armed with the rifle and high on meth, according to court documents. Both were convicted of robbery and murder after killing Dale Rost III. (Yamhill County Correctional Facility)
Yamhill District Attorney Bradley Berry, who prosecuted Rayburn back in 2006, did not immediately return calls seeking comment. But he sent a letter of his own to the governor, urging her to deny the clemency request – which he said “stunned” him.
“The minimization of her role in this murder by the authors of the application…shows she has taken little, if any, responsibility for her actions on that day that she and Smith robbed, humiliated and murdered Dale Rost in cold blood,” he wrote.
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf contributed to this report.
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