Ex-girlfriend of 'person of interest' in Portland slayings: 'I still have his things' | Banfield

After more than a year, authorities may be closing in on a person of interest in the slayings of four Portland women, killings that terrorized the Oregon city. A person of interest in connection with the killings, Jesse Lee Calhoun, is jailed on a parole violation and could be released next month. NewsNation senior national correspondent Brian Entin spoke exclusively with Krista Sinor, Calhoun's ex-girlfriend.
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[@TheChroniclesOfYarnia]

She needs help , NOW! She is downloading trauma and needs help.

[@gretchenlukas7533]

It’s sad to see a young woman who thinks it’s ok to have those horrible words written on her because it turned him on. Graphic violence in pornography is normalizing abuse and it’s a truly tragic

[@emilylasiter9717]

He knew she was unusually willing to go along with his sick fetishes, she sadly doesn't see it for what it is, and even now she is still confused about him. I hope she wakes up soon.

[@elizabethg57]

This woman needs therapy.

[@BrandZ-xz8jt]

She was too compliant after the frightening red flags, apparently dangerously submissive.

[@curly__3]

How many serial killers have come out of the pacific nw?

[@avalondreaming1433]

That place breeds them!

[@maylynncupp6653]

Well they do call it the suicide state now serial k state.

[@WildflowerAnn]

Is it the rain?

[@maylynncupp6653]

@Darrinbewitched it is but really it's all over there's alot in the area I'm in.

[@maylynncupp6653]

@@WildflowerAnn is the rain and gloomy weather most the time it's depressing.

[@shariflaroche]

Oregon weird

[@mrs.america]

It’s really stupid of her to be doing the news interview if the guy is still alive & well…

[@Khd387]

Not stupid, brave. Im worried about her too.

[@daynasafranek7807]

@@Khd387Seeking a few minutes of fame, more likely. She still has his stuff… she’s not done with his brand of strange. Figured he did it… ok.

[@malcriadamedina5358]

He's getting out in a few weeks

[@927candace]

I know her and she is waiting and hoping he gets released. She’s a weirdo! It shows she’s still in a relationship with him in fb

[@CountryBoy2280]

@@malcriadamedina5358 no he was just charged with three counts of murder

[@shariboyle1166]

Odd behavior from her, imo.

[@WhoaBo]

Sheesh. Imagine being in her shoes and mentally battling all of this, with all of his stuff laying around in your kitchen dining room.

[@Angela410R]

Totally deflecting, simplifying to the point she makes no sense.

[@WolfRabidStudio]

Oh dear, her picker is seriously broken. I doubt her “ex” is ever getting out again. Having his things there means she’s unable to let him go energetically. That dark death 💀 energy.

[@WildflowerAnn]

Don’t say people’s “pickers are broken”. These types of perpetrators and narcissists target vulnerable people on purpose.

[@WolfRabidStudio]

That’s exactly what having a broken picker means

[@Janice-f9g]

​@@WildflowerAnnWell where I come from, Her bread ain't quite done!

[@WildflowerAnn]

@@Janice-f9g that’s a new one, lol.

[@samhanks7920]

Weirdoramma

[@audreydaleski1067]

How can she go public? Ick.

[@kayblank]

She knows something.

[@valleygirltotallyforsure]

She really doesn't... I mean, she's probably put together dates he didn't come home & that they matched approximate dates some of the girls went missing...

[@tthappyrock368]

How incredibly scary for her!

[@bc3po]

She knows more than she's letting on

[@Stormie_LV]

WOW! Great reporting, Brian. I felt like I got a little look into crazy. I hope he stays in jail if he is guilty. I heard DNA on victim. He may very well be guilty. Protect the people. Gezz craziness. 😊

[@Taureanfitness]

I feel sorry for this woman because it appears as though.She's been lied to and manipulated by an absolute psychopath. I'm guessing they've been together for a while.So her heart wasn't it?And this is very difficult for her.

[@audreydaleski1067]

Gross.

[@ChantelMariesStories]

She's brainwas by him

[@Khd387]

Was the word “volatile” a Freudian slip? Come on, you know what you need to do. Prolonging it is making it worse. Tell his family to come get his “ crap”! Save yourself and your child and your dignity! You deserve better!

[@cygnals524]

Who writes on their girl friend/wife? Who also has rules in the bedroom they make their partner adhere too? Strange!!

[@SmirkInvestigator]

He adapted makeshift self-regulation really really well. I'm very curious about his upbringing and what was the crux that made him cross the line if there was any. I think the usual human program of "do whatever I can get away with and sleep well to" is usually the code most follow.

[@RyanneW-t5i]

I think she needs to clarify just a little bit on something I don’t think anyone else noticed yet. She said that she thought he had something to do with it from the get-go and she hugged him before confronting him and asked him if he had anything he wanted to tell her. (See video⬆️). The problem is that he was arrested for a parole violation on June 6, 2023, and then police searched her apartment. He wasn’t named as a person of interest in the case until July 17, 2023, publicly, and obviously he was in jail from his arrest June 6, 2023 to then, actually he was transported to the Snake River Correctional Facility, one of Oregon’s prisons between those dates. So how is it she confronted him and hugged him “outside here” (I’m assuming that meant their apartment). And worse, why would she make up such a story that is easily fact checked? I’ve been following the case extensively and the more I see about her, read her statements, watch her in interviews, the more things get really questionable at least on her end. It just doesn’t make sense that she seems to be playing both sides of the fence a little bit. And sometimes she seems to act like a somewhat timid victim and sometimes she’s full force confident throwing him way too far under the bus, in my opinion, almost putting too much information out there. Idk, it all just seems really suspicious to me and she’s definitely not doing herself any favors and definitely not the accused any favors either way you look at it. I’m not exactly sure who would really be dumb enough to comment to the media on something of this proportion when it’s a complicated case that’s still under police investigation. In fact, like 5 different jurisdictions law enforcement Investigations. And thanks to her and her need for her 5 seconds of fame or whatever her real underlying motive is for giving these interviews, that Jesse Calhoun has already been deemed guilty and condemned by the public way before the public even knows or has any information of concrete evidence to absolutely 100% prove his guilt. There has been absolutely no evidence either reported to the public from investigators or even leaked. All there is is speculation based on the accused having relations with 2 of the women, and even that came from this girlfriend. And I actually the more she talks, especially about things like the sex life between the 2 of them (which should have stayed between the 2 of them) the more I have to question her motives about why she is being overly generous with their personal and private information. I have personally believed for months now after doing my own extensive research and talking to a lot of people, both homeless individuals on the street and even law enforcement,that Jesse Calhoun is not a murderer. I honestly don’t feel that the cases are necessarily even connected. And death under “suspicious circumstances” doesn’t prove murder or that someone should even be charged with murder. Law enforcement investigators are going to have to come up with something way better than that , at least in my eyes, to prove that someone committed the act of murder. And then there’s Jesse Calhoun’s criminal history. So what. It’s not fair to assume that someone is actually a murderer based on their past crimes or their lack of respect for law enforcement authority. I feel that the city of Portland has an even bigger problem going on than what one man is capable of and that not enough is being done to investigate other leads, other people or even other groups of people.

[@GreatEncounter-sk6lv]

She has zero boundaries, that much is obvious, did she know all along what he was doing?

[@Flucked]

THIS WOMAN IS AS SICK AS HE IS !!

[@thesholovepodcast]

Wow

[@deniseblackburn33]

No words

[@allisonm.8497]

I think that most of these comments are very rude and way too judgmental on this woman. Sure, she definitely should have kept quiet as this is an ongoing investigation, for one thing, but for another, your sex life should be kept private and it’s not for anyone to air their ex’s dirty laundry for the world to hear. I’m not sure why anyone would do that, although, I’m assuming that she is a little upset about her ex, Jesse Calhoun, cheating on her with 2 of the women who were trading sex for drugs. And although she seems a little nervous she either talked way too much because of being nervous and of course being honest with the police or she knew EXACTLY what she was doing by telling the things that she shouldn’t or taking about their sex life, or the other things she let slip. I’m not sure what to make of it, but the last thing on my mind is condemning her for any of her actions in her relationship with Jesse Calhoun. However, I for one, live in Portland, and the more I look into this case and the more I talk with members of the homeless and/or drug addicted community here, the more I believe that Jesse Calhoun was a targeted and easy scapegoat for the police. I don’t feel he’s guilty of murdering any of those women. For one thing, so far they can only conclude that one only one, was actually a homicide because she died of “blunt force trauma to the head and neck”. That is the case of Joanna Speaks, who both the investigators and her own family don’t know and have no information that she had any ties to Jesse Calhoun. The other deaths are currently classified as being “under suspicious circumstances”. Now, body moved or not, that doesn’t necessarily mean or imply that they were murdered. Also, where the bodies were found especially one in a culvert in the Gorge, I’m wondering how one person places a body there or even the other semi-remote and even shrub overgrown locations where the other 2 were found AND NOT BE SEEN BY ANY ONE. It just doesn’t make sense and neither does the other fact that homeless and drug addicted young people, mostly women are disappearing every day and even still being found and that information is not being released to the public because officials cant until a body is identified and/or the relatives are notified. But we're talking about a certain vulnerable population that its normal for families to not here from their homeless or drug addicted loved ones for months at a time so they dont have any idea. The women found dead in this story were all reported missing and then unfortunately, their bodies were found, so it's front page news now for almost a year. And so then the police have no real choice but to hurry and find someone to blame so the public can relax again and supposedly feel safe again and Mr. Calhoun, as knowing and having a relationship with 2 of the women, along with having a prior criminal record and a lack of respect for law enforcement's authority, was the perfect person for both law enforcement to mold and the media to slander and condemn, which would definitely take the attention off the more important facts of the cases (or lack of, actually), preventing people from asking the more appropriate questions and also to blind the oublic about a much bigger, much more serious and dangerous problem we have here, the kidnapping, of young people mostly women, human trafficking, drugs, prostitution, violence against women, of and a slew of other crimes AS WELL AS more bodies being found WITH Jesse Calhoun in jail , hes been indicted, he was indicted only about 10 days before he was scheduled to be released. The latest young woman's body being found under suspicious circumstances on 06-16-2024. So now theres even way more questions and possibilities than already incarcarated suspects. So what will happen next, who knows but i for one, dont feel any safer in this city and infact, feel very let down and disappointed in the way these 'murder' cases have been handled because it should be about seeking true justice for these women , if the rest of them were actually truly murdered. AND about keeping more people safe and alive

[@Khd387]

Is that why he was killing women because they messed things up in bed and they didn’t let him cool off long enough? Good grief what are you thinking?

[@lightandtheweight]

I guess some people really do need to learn Shame the hard way

[@valleygirltotallyforsure]

I thought he was innocent at first because I know some other guys that knew two or more of those girls and I know for sure that they didn't kill them. However his sketchy hideout in the woods, mixed with his poor coping skills around anger and sex addiction are very suspect...

[@daynasafranek7807]

I would say how bizarre this is, but it’s Portland, so it’s not exactly surprising. 😂

[@daheikkinen]

🤮

[@eden_aumakua]

Hopefully she won't write the word HOARDER on herself.

[@monicamelanienel7900]

OMG! She did not approach a suspected serial killer and say sweetly, "is there something you want to tell me? Hows your mental health honey! " If you thought for sure your boyfriend killed 3 woman you wouldbe terrified. Such a wierd interview!!!

[@Azazel2024]

God this is dark. Oregon is so fucked up

[@PagingDrMakeUp]

Huh?

[@scottkraft1062]

This is why most women love watching the movie Faces of Death

[@Janice-f9g]

That woman is weird, very weird. Just writing bad names on me or even wanting to would have sent him packing, immediately. Shes STILL communicating with him! I think she believes she's special to him since he didnt kill her! Probably visits him. I 🙏 she doesn't have kids!

[@Tipperary757]

Online dating strikes again.

[@annina_pure_creativity]

Well she needs someone on her side with wisdom, he is out - she is right with him on his side. She lives a dangerous life.

[@lindseyhavniear4548]

She’s very weird to stay with this persob

[@danielflores7724]

This is Satan's world

[@TaunaWestCoast]

The plaid pantry meeting?

[@ScottShedd123]

Plaid Pantry is a convenience store chain in Oregon, sounds like she met him there to talk.

[@Ish4MyIggans]

She helped for sure

[@alllifematters]

Hopefully shes in therapy .. oregon is such a horribly judgemental uptight rigid place. Its a difficult place to heal but i hope she finds healing

[@slconley]

Uptight and rigid?

[@alllifematters]

@@slconley yes uptight and rigid ... Often times the more rigid thinkers will polarize and tend to create what they hate, so they polarize with anything different from themselves and that's why there's this huge drug population in Oregon... But of course these people can't stay in the places that created them, they have to go to places that are more accepting. And then those places become overwhelmed and overrun, while the conservatives tighten up their belts and continue to destroy lives and souls without consequence and blame those who are compassionate

[@alllifematters]

They destroy what they fear because they are a state full of communities of people who have lived very sheltered lives for generations. They fear creativity in any form and will ostracize it... Hence why these people tend to take up drug use

[@alllifematters]

Outside of Eugene and Portland you won't find any real creativity in Oregon. The people all want to look, act the same

[@3smithey]

Up tight and rigid are NOT the words I word use for our city and state. Try LIBERAL, non judgemental, open.. Absolutely Democratic to its core!

[@ronnie32567]

Ole gal this old and still having pink hair just might be a tad squirrelly