William Chase Hargrove, of Corvallis, was renting a room from Michelle Chavez, a woman in a loveless marriage, when he first came across Anna Repkina on an online dating site in 2016. Subsequently, on one side, while he was wooing Anna and forming a relationship with her, on the other, he was involved in an affair with Michelle. Even after he proposed to Anna over Christmas, William continued his connection with both women, so when Anna moved from Moscow to Oregon to be with him, Michelle was furious. By that time, the latter had decided that she’d leave her husband for him, and wanting him to only be with her as well, she started pressuring him into leaving his fiancée. After that, within days, Anna wound up dead.

William Hargrove went on trial for murder in October of 2019. There, his defense team cross-questioned his other lover, Michelle Chavez, claiming that it was her who had pulled the trigger and that the Oregonian bouncer was innocent, having no hand in Anna’s slaying whatsoever. They even went as far as to claim that she had threatened him with her family’s connections to an outlaw motorcycle gang to scare him into keeping silent. The prosecutors, on the other hand, focused primarily on William and his actions succeeding Anna’s death, describing his frantic nature and how he had even met up with Michelle that same night for sex. They also detailed William’s relationship with both women in full.

In the end, in January of 2020, the jury found William Hargrove guilty of second-degree murder and identity theft in connection with Anna Repkina’s death, sentencing him to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. This came after the prosecutors made it clear that the murder weapon was recovered from William’s car and that his cell phone records put him at the crime scene when it happened. Therefore, William, at the age of 30, is currently incarcerated at the Snake River Correctional Institution, a medium-level security prison in eastern Oregon, about five miles northwest from the city of Ontario. Because of his conviction, his earliest release date is mentioned as “life” in state records.

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