Prison kidnap sentence pleases local woman

A Coeur d’Alene woman was in an Oregon courtroom this week for the sentencing of a man who kidnapped, raped and tortured her in the 1980s and spent over two decades as a fugitive. “I think it sends a good message to survivors everywhere to come forward. That’s my mission,” said Michaelle Dierich, who first told her story to The Spokesman-Review in 2007 . Paul Erven Jackson, 46, pleaded guilty last week to a long list of charges in the 1988 abduction of Dierich and a similar assault on another woman. He committed the crimes with his half-brother Vance Roberts, who has been in prison the past 10 years. Jackson will spend 18 years in prison/Scott Maben, SR. More here.