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Detectives arrest suspects in SE beating death

12:04 PM PST on Thursday, November 16, 2006

By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com Staff

Police announced the arrest of two people for the beating death of a man in Southeast Portland.

Portland Police

According to Cathe Kent of the Portland Police Bureau, detectives and U.S. Marshalls arrested 39-year-old Charles Louis Sampson, Jr., and 47-year-old Brenda Lee Hudson on Wednesday in connection with the murder of 57-year-old Ronald Lee McClanahan.

Portland police/kgw.com

Ronald Lee McClanahan as shown in a photo with his wife, provided to the media by police.

McClanahan’s body was found in the home on SE 141st Avenue in September. A medical examiner said he died from blunt force trauma.

Kent said detectives think the victim let the two suspects into the home, they then planned to rob McClanahan.

The two suspects were charged with aggravated murder and were due in court Thursday afternoon.

So far investigators have not said how the suspects were linked to the victim.

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