Corrections officers: Gillmore may kill next time

DA, victim vow lawsuit if state board grants rapist’s parole

By Mara Stine

The Gresham Outlook, Jul 3, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (3 Reader comments)

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“I think he’ll do more than rape,” one woman said. “I think he’ll kill.” She’s seen his face contort, his stance tense up when given a direct order. “You can just feel it … it totally pisses him off,” she said. “… he doesn’t like women. He doesn’t even like men telling him what to do. But if a woman does it. ….”

As for whether Gillmore is dangerous, the woman said “extremely. He’s one of the ones you wouldn’t turn your back on.”

Although Gillmore has undergone just about every form of therapy and counseling offered behind bars, the woman doubts they’ve had any real effect on him.

“He’ll go through the programs, but he hasn’t grown with them,” she said. “He hasn’t absorbed it.”

In fact, she thinks Gillmore has become even more dangerous while incarcerated.

“He’s gotten smarter, uh, he’s gotten harder and harder to catch, uh, more devious, and in my opinion, and strictly in my opinion, uh, I don’t think you’re going to have live victims next time,” she said. “He’s gonna kill them so they can’t testify against him. That’s just me, and, and a lot of the other staff feel the same way.”

The second corrections officer agreed with her co-worker that if released, saying Gillmore will rape again and his behavior could escalate to include murder.

“I don’t want to say that, but, yeah, I do,” she told Ratto. She also said Gillmore will be “predatory out on the street, most definitely,” and that in her opinion Gillmore is not treatable.

When granting Gillmore’s parole last fall, the board considered a psychological report from Dr. Frank Colistro stating that Gillmore had a 75 percent chance of re-offending within 10 years and was not “amenable to community-based treatment or supervision.” The doctor also stated Gillmore had an even higher sexual violence risk potential than when he evaluated Gillmore in 2001.

However, the parole board found that although Gillmore remains a danger to the community, he could be “adequately controlled with supervision and mental health treatment available in the community.”

Two recent psychological evaluations by Dr. F. Robert Stuckey and Dr. Gary McGuffin also found Gillmore is still dangerous, likely to re-offend and a poor-risk parole.

“The only thing more appalling than trusting Mr. Gillmore over Dr. Colistro is trusting Mr. Gillmore over the combination of Dr. Colistro, Dr. Stuckey and Dr. McGuffin,” Ratto wrote in his rebuttal. “Yet if the board decides — for a third time — to release Mr. Gillmore, that is precisely what it will be doing.”

Ratto also reiterated that Gillmore reluctantly admitted during last week’s hearing to committing more sex crimes, including voyeurism. “How many additional sex crimes had he failed to report?” Ratto asked.

Over the phone this week Ratto said, “It’s clear he’s not the person he claims to be. If he gets out, he’ll do it again, and we’re going to do everything in our power to stop it.”

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