Paul Jackson's booking photo in 1990, left, and an age-enhanced rendering.(Photo: Courtesy Hillsborough Police Department)
A man wanted for more than two decades in the kidnapping and torture of two young women in Oregon was arrested Monday in Mexico, authorities said.
Paul Erven Jackson, 45, had been at large since 1991. Mexican immigration authorities, working with the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Jackson at a hotel in Guadalajara,
The Oregonian reported.
Jackson apparently had been living in Mexico for several years under the name Paul Bennett Hamilton, U.S. Marshals spokesman Eric Wahlstrom said. The arrest took place when authorities received a tip after CNN aired an episode of
The Hunt with John Walsh<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in July that featured Jackson's case.
"It's what started this," Wahlstrom told CNN. "It was a specific tip that came in right after (the episode) aired that led authorities to him in Guadalajara."
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Wahlstrom said Jackson was arrested on his way to work at an electronics store.
Police say Jackson and his older brother, Vance Roberts, kidnapped prostitutes, drove them to Roberts' home in Hillsboro, Ore., west of Portland, and held them captive for days.
After the brothers' 1990 arrest, their mother bailed them out, and they vanished,
The Oregonian reported. Roberts surrendered in 2006 and is serving a 108-year prison sentence.
Police believe the men may have additional victims, but two of the victims, 20-year-old Michaelle Dierich, and 17-year-old Andrea Hood, were abducted in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
They told
The Oregonian last year that Jackson's disappearance still affected them.
"I've got to face that guy," Dierich said. "He's got to go to trial. He's got to be locked up."
In a phone interview Monday, Hood told
The Oregonian, "There was always that hope in the back of my mind that he'll get caught."
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