A Portland woman who turned on her accomplice gets a 10 year sentence for a robbery that left her 85-year-old neighbor dead. The woman, with another accomplice, planned out how to steal cash from her neighbor. The sentence of 10 years in state prison was given after her friend allegedly beat and killed an elderly man. The mother of 10 gave herself up to the police for the crime.
It seems to be a bit of luck for the police that they caught the suspect. Marin was arrested on March 4, 2019, on unrelated identity theft charges in Clackamas County and later told detectives the alleged accomplice gave her $500 as her cut from a robbery. Amanda M. Marin pleaded guilty last week to first-degree manslaughter, robbery and burglary for her role in the scheme that left Eugene C. Gora dead. He was found in a pool of his blood inside his home on May 10, 2018.
Judge Christopher Marshall of the Multinomah County Circuit handed down the 10-year sentence, with credit for time served. Marin, now 41, was living at the McCoy Village affordable housing complex on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when she befriended Mr. Gora.
Marin began offering rides to Gora, who didn’t like banks and once produced $5,000 from a couch cushion, according to the records. A friend then suggested that he and Marin rob Gora, according to Marin’s defense attorney.
The two accomplices plotted how they could lure Gora into a back room and unlock a side door so the accomplice could enter unobserved, a memo alleges. The accomplice hasn’t been arrested or charged with a crime. Gora’s body was discovered by a caregiver later that day, police said, with the cause of death determined to be blunt force trauma.
