Inset, left to right: Jamon Peter Fritsch (Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office) and Kara Taylor (Oregon City Police). Background: The home where Fritsch killed and dismembered Taylor (KATU).
A 48-year-old man in Oregon will spend the remainder of his days behind bars after admitting to killing his 49-year-old roommate, dismembering her with a table saw, and dumping her remains across several different landfills. Clackamas County Circuit Judge Michael C. Wetzel on Wednesday ordered Jamon Peter Fritsch to serve a life sentence in a state correctional facility for the 2023 slaying of Kara Taylor, authorities announced.
Fritsch reached a deal with prosecutors last week and pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree abuse of a corpse in Taylor’s death.
As Law&Crime previouslyreported, Fritsch and Taylor were both respiratory therapists and knew each other through work.
The sentencing hearing
During Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, Kara Taylor’s family members addressed the court, with some speaking directly to Fritsch.
Dennis Taylor, the victim’s husband, had some particularly harsh words for his wife’s killer.
“You are a narcissistic bastard who has destroyed so many lives,” he said, according to a courtroom report from Portland, Oregon ABC affiliate KATU. “You are the epitome of evil. For that, I know you will spend eternity in hell, and deservedly so. But before that, you have one more stop, and that is in the Oregon Department of Corrections.”
In the weeks before her murder, Kara Taylor and her disabled adult daughter moved in with Fritsch because of marital issues.
