Woman pleads guilty in 2025 Bend murder case

One of the two people accused of killing Robert Treher at the Holiday Motel in Bend in 2025 pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday. Jessica Sanders, 32, of Clearlake, California, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the first degree, felon in possession of a firearm and conspiracy to commit murder in the second degree. Treher, 34, of Bend, was found dead on Jan. 3, 2025 by a Holiday Motel employee. Sanders was identified as a suspect the same day of Treher’s death and was arrested during a traffic stop in Redmond on an outstanding warrant from Lake County, California. Bend Police said Sanders was an acquaintance of Treher and Treher was killed in an alleged robbery gone wrong. According to court documents, Treher resisted the theft and Sanders and Jason Loun, the other suspect in the case, allegedly caused his death.

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