Suspect In Massacre Of Five Arraigned

Brought into court in chains to face charges he slashed the throats of five members of a family he had known for years, Girley L. Crum told his own family on Friday he didn’t know what happened.

Arraigned on five counts of aggravated murder in Coos County District Court, Crum, 34, of Bandon was ordered held on $5 million bail by Judge Richard Barron.

Crum was arrested early Thursday morning just minutes after sheriff’s deputies arrived at the Beach Junction Mobile Home Park south of Bandon to find five people dead. A police dog located Crum in some brush about 150 yards from the mobile home where the killings occurred.

Ray Jacobs, 37; his wife, Kelly, 27; the couple’s daughter, Jessica, 5, and son, Christopher, 16 months; and Mrs. Jacobs’ brother, Roger Glazebrook, 38, of Spokane, died from having their throats cut, authorities said.

According to the sheriff’s department log, Kelly Jacobs had managed to call 911 before she died. Her husband staggered to the home of the trailer court manager across the gravel drive, where he died. Penny Morgan, the manager’s wife, called deputies, too.

Wearing a light green jail tunic that exposed his tattoo-covered arms and a gauze bandage on his right wrist, Crum was led by deputies to the defense table, where he sat alone awaiting the arrival of the judge.

Crum turned to the members of his family sitting in the packed courtroom and quietly said, “I don’t know what happened.”