In 1994, 17-year-old Kyle Hedquist was worried that Nikki Thrasher would turn him into the police over burglaries he had committed. Months prior, Hedquist had robbed Bryan Thouvenel at gunpoint while Thouvenel worked at Pizza Hut. Thrasher apparently know about the robbery, and to stop her from reporting the crimes to police, Hedquist tricked Thrasher into driving him to a remote area of Douglas County before shooting her in the back of the head and dumping her body on the side of the road.
Thrasher was 19 years old.
“She was probably the kindest heart that you’d ever want to meet,” Thouvenel said of Thrasher. “She’d give you the shirt off her back. She was so incredibly sweet, nice, funny.”
Hedquist was arrested and later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But in 2022, Governor Kate Brown granted Hedquist clemency. In a statement, Brown said, “Kyle Hedquist was in high school when he committed this crime, and was 18 years old when he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole––a sentence far stricter than an 18-year-old would likely receive today. Over the next 28 years, he worked to rehabilitate himself, and exemplifies the type of personal transformation we should all hope to see from people incarcerated in our criminal justice system.”
Now Hedquist is getting another chance, this time as part of the Salem, Oregon Police Review Board, a move that has critics questioning why a guy with his criminal record would get such a position.
Crazy isn’t it, the stupidity of today’ so called leaders and tax payers are funding this crap.
where is/was the girl’s father? if it was my daughter this pos wouldnt be around!