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Breaking! Hayden Woman Lauds Rapist’s Conviction …

An Oregon jury deliberated for just over an hour Tuesday before convicting a man who abducted and raped Michealle Dierich two decades ago. The 39-year-old Hayden woman traveled to Hillsboro, Ore., last week to testify against Vance Roberts, who was convicted Tuesday for kidnapping Dierich and another former prostitute off the streets of Portland in the late 1980s. Both young women were held captive by Roberts and his brother, Paul Jackson, and sexually tortured. “I feel like a new woman,” said Dierich, who spent years living in fear of her attackers.

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.