UNUSUAL JEWELRY FROM SCENE. AERIALS OF COAST. HEATHER FRASER. FRASER MOM, RHONDA. FILE: COLUMBIA RIVER AT ASTORIA WHERE BODY WAS FOUND. PREVIOUS MARTY ALLAN JOHNSON. Martin Allen Johnson has been on Oregon’s death row since 2001. The 59-year-old Aloha man was convicted of eight counts of aggravated murder for drugging, raping and strangling Heather Fraser at his home in 1998. In an opinion released Wednesday, March 30, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled for the second time that Johnson should be given a new trial, claiming that his defense attorneys should have done a better job presenting his case to jurors. The court ruled similarly in 2013, claiming that Johnson didn’t receive a proper defense when he was tried and convicted, but that decision was appealed by Jeff Premo, the superintendent of Oregon State Penitentiary.

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