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By
RAELYNN RICARTE
News staff writer
The second
of three suspects in the death of a Marlene
Zarate, 20, has been accused by Hood River County District Attorney
John Sewell of involvement in the 2009 death of Jerry Cranmer,
proprietor of the Vagabond Lodge. She has
joined Claudia D. Escoto, 19, the first suspect to be arrested, at the
Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities in The third
suspect, Jairo A. Vincente, 23, is awaiting extradition to He has
been charged with robbery and a murder indictment could be handed down
by a grand jury within the next few weeks. Sewell has declined
to comment on the pending capital murder case. Zarate,
Escoto and Vincente all lived in White Salmon at the time of Cranmer’s
homicide. The 54-year-old man was found dead from a gunshot
wound at the Hood River
County Sheriff Detective Matt English and Oregon State Police
Detective Lori Rosebraugh traveled to She
allegedly fled to the neighboring state after being questioned by
local law enforcement officials last fall. She was later apprehended
on a robbery warrant issued by Hood River County Circuit Court Judge
Paul Crowley. Numerous
law enforcement agencies in and around the Gorge have worked with
English and Sheriff Detective Gerry Tiffany on the murder
investigation. According
to reports, Cranmer was killed at the Vagabond shortly after The
suspect(s) were gone when authorities arrived at the business a few
minutes after the fatal shooting took place. Witnesses told detectives
that an unidentified man and woman had been seen near the premises
about the same time that the homicide occurred. OSP
criminologists spent hours processing the scene Sept. 10 while police
officers and deputies searched the grounds. No weapon was found on the
property, according to reports. Cranmer
was a 1973 graduate of
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