GUILTY OR - Renee Sandidge, 59, Portland, 7 June 2014

[OkieGranny]

Warrants unsealed:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/07/search_warrants_unsealed_in_ca.html

Sandidge was nowhere to be found during initial searches, but they found a bloodied tarp next to the trailer on the south side of the home, what looked like her eyeglasses in one of the sheds and a large amount of blood near the stairs leading to the basement of the house, according to the affidavits.

Police also did find several surveillance cameras situated around the home, and a large TV in the living room that was being used as a monitor for the security system, an affidavit said. Detectives had forensic criminalists enter the home to disconnect the DVR-style security recording device and examine it to determine if it had captured images of Lewis' alleged fatal assault on Sandidge.

In an attic, police discovered four ballistic vets. In a backyard shed, they found ammunition, holsters and 48 pounds of silver and a half pound of gold, the affidavit said.

A ping of Sandidge's cell phone signals came back to vicinity of Lewis' home on Northeast 66th Avenue.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Murd...ibes-impact-of-crime-on-family-268053091.html

“I'm just devastated, I'm his son, but I'm - I feel worse for my sister,” says Curtis. “She saw something disturbing, too. And now she can't even talk to her dad and she doesn't know if and when she can see him again.”

Nathan Curtis believes his dad and Renee Sandidge both needed mental help.

“My dad maybe was starting to get really frustrated, and become very, you know, agitated and maybe a little bit desperate and that he thought just, I don't know, it's just crazy," he says. "You know, the whole thing is a tragedy for everybody.”

 

[jnTexas]

Sounds like this man was at his witts end. No one was helping him get her out of his property. What a sad situation.....

 

[DayLea]

Detective: Surveillance video shows Portland man dragging body of tenant he's accused of murdering
September 26, 2014 at 10:39 AM, updated September 26, 2014 at 12:29 PM
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/09/detective_surveillance_video_s.html

I can't seem to find anything more recent.

 

[perfectingpink]

It looks like Lewis has not been sentenced yet but is still in jail.

http://www.mcso.us/PAID/Home/Booking/1305261

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Backyard bunker owner admits 2014 killing

http://koin.com/2017/01/13/backyard-bunker-owner-admits-2014-killing/

A man who built a bunker in his Northeast Portland backyard admitted killing a woman who lived in the basement of his home in 2014.

Gary Lewis pleaded guilty to 1st-degree manslaughter and will get 16 years in prison when he is sentenced March 1, Deputy District Attorney Steven O’Hagen told KOIN 6 News.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Portland landlord who killed tenant with hammer, hid body in shed gets 16 years in prison

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/03/portland_landlord_who_killed_t.html

A Portland man who killed his mentally ill tenant with a hammer and hid her body in a shed in 2014 was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison.

Gary A. Lewis, 63, apologized to family members of Renee Sandidge-Crowell who sat behind him in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in a plea deal. He originally faced a murder charge.

"I'll always regret what I did," said a bearded and shackled Lewis.

Two Sandidge-Crowell family members declined to comment after the court hearing. They didn't speak during the sentencing hearing.

Judge Eric Bergstrom also ordered Lewis to pay about $2,200 in restitution, with some of the money to go toward counseling for his teenage daughter. She saw her father beating his 59-year-old tenant and dragging the body in a tarp through the backyard.

Prosecutors reached the plea deal to give Sandidge-Crowell's relatives closure and so they could "have a goodbye to their family member with privacy and dignity," said Deputy District Attorney Jenna Plank.