Solved case · 2017
Also known as Anna Repkina · Anna Alekseyevna Repkina
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Anna Repkina was killed near Alsea, Oregon, on April 16, 2017; William Hargrove was convicted, won reversal of his first murder judgment, and was convicted again at a 2025 retrial.
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Anna Repkina, 27, was killed on April 16, 2017, on a remote logging road outside Alsea, Oregon. A caretaker found her body the following day. Investigators used physical evidence, financial records, cellphone data, and witness accounts to focus on her fiancé, William Hargrove, who was arrested two days after the discovery.
Repkina was a Russian national who had met Hargrove online. She visited Oregon in December 2016, became engaged, and returned in March 2017 intending to marry him. That relocation is background to the case rather than the incident date.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Hargrove had access to the weapon, was near the scene, and withdrew money from Repkina's accounts after her death. A jury convicted him in 2019 of second-degree murder, identity theft, and two counts of second-degree theft. In January 2020, the court sentenced him to life with parole eligibility after 25 years.
On August 16, 2023, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the murder conviction because a digital-device warrant was insufficiently particular and evidence obtained through it should not have been admitted. The court left the theft convictions in place. The reversal removed the first murder judgment and led to a new trial; it was not an acquittal.
A second Benton County jury convicted Hargrove of murder in 2025, and the court again imposed life with parole eligibility after 25 years. No uncharged private person is identified or presented as responsible. The solved status rests on the second conviction, subject to any later appellate change shown by the Oregon docket.
Anna Repkina was killed on a remote logging road outside Alsea, Oregon.
A caretaker found Repkina's body; William Hargrove was arrested two days later.
Hargrove was indicted.
A jury convicted Hargrove of second-degree murder, identity theft, and two counts of second-degree theft.
Hargrove was sentenced to life with parole eligibility after 25 years.
The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the murder conviction over an insufficiently particular digital-device warrant while affirming the theft convictions.
A second jury convicted Hargrove of murder, and the court again imposed life with parole eligibility after 25 years.
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