Teen rapist arrested in last year’s death of Oregon woman

Three weeks before a 17-year-old raped a woman during a juvenile detention field trip to an Oregon Ducks game in Eugene last year, he allegedly stabbed his neighbor to death, local reports said.
The case’s prosecutor had suspected Jaimie Tinoco’s rape and kidnapping of the 39-year-old woman on the University of Oregon campus followed other serious crimes, but until this week it wasn’t clear what.
The teen reportedly confessed to Nicole Laube’s death shortly after a judge sentenced the teen to 14 years behind bars in a hearing where Tinoco struggled to conceal a smirk throughout the victim’s testimony.
Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Tinoco on Wednesday morning at the facility where he’s serving his sentence after pleading guilty.
The husband of a woman killed outside a Cedar Mill apartment complex said he will not give the 17-year-old murder suspect the satisfaction of seeing the pain he has caused.
Instead, Chris Laube said he will stay strong for everyone who loved his wife, Nicole Laube.
Jaime Tinoco was indicted and arrested for Nicole Laube's murder Wednesday.
Tinoco, 17, is the same teen convicted of brutally beating and raping a mother of two outside of Autzen Stadium last fall.
For more than seven months, deputies have searched all over the region for Nicole Laube's killer. Turns out, Tinoco lived with his family in an apartment right across the street from where she was killed.
Deputies say Nicole Laube was working at the Commons at Timber Creek Apartment complex in Cedar Mill when she was stabbed to death on Aug. 19th of last year.
Deputies say it appears she was killed in a completely random act of violence.

News of Tinoco's arrest is still sinking in for Chris Laube. He once feared detectives would never make an arrest in this case at all.
“It's mixed emotions you know, you want to jump up and scream out of excitement, and then there's shock,” said Chris Laube. “It took me a day of pinching myself trying to figure out if I was awake. You wonder if it's real, so much so you almost want to call the detectives back and say, ‘did you really call me?'”
“He was on a path, something must have happened for him to go from minor things one day, to murder, that's some rage,” added Chris Laube.
Weeks after Nicole Laube's murder, Tinoco attacked a woman in Eugene.
The teen, who was in juvenile detention months before this, was at an Oregon Ducks football game with a group of several other youth offenders when it happened.
He was supposed to be under the supervision of Washington County, but prosecutors say he escaped from the group.
Prosecutors say he followed a woman along MLK Boulevard and attacked her from behind. He dragged her into some bushes and used a rock wall as a barrier while he violently punched her some 20 times in the face and then raped her.
Soon after the rape, he was arrested.
Tinoco pleaded guilty in that case last week and was sentenced to more than 14 years behind bars.
Throughout the victim's testimony in that sentencing, Tinoco was caught trying to hold back a smile. When a judge asked him why he was smiling, Tinoco told the judge he did not know.
The Lane County district attorney says it was the most heinous and brutal sexual assault without a weapon he's ever prosecuted.
“He's off the street for a long time, and I'm thankful for that,” said Chris Laube. “We don't have to hear another story about this happening to someone else, I just can't imagine that. If he would have gotten away, this would happen again in another week, or two weeks, another woman would be harmed by him.”
Multiple sources close to the investigation confirm that right after his sentencing in the Eugene case, Tinoco confessed to Nicole Laube's murder. He admitted to things only the killer would know.
Soon after he confessed, Washington County detectives arrested Tinoco.
Chris Laube says he's now preparing for the day he will face him in court.
“You know what, I'm going to be strong, that's the one commitment I've had. I'm not going to give him the privilege to smile and laugh, I'm not going to give him that same privilege to know he hurt me, he took a wife, a daughter, a mother a sister, a friend to a lot of people, he took that away,” said Chris Laube. “But, in the end, I'm not going to give him that satisfaction to see that hurt and pain. I will stay strong for the kids, for the family, for the community, he doesn't deserve that satisfaction.”

“He was on a path, something must have happened for him to go from minor things one day, to murder. That’s some rage,” the dead victim’s husband, Chris Laube said.
Tinoco is now charged with aggravated murder and unlawful use of a weapon in connection to Laube’s death.
The 29-year-old was found dead on Aug. 19 across the road from where Tinoco's family lived at a Beaverton apartment complex.
Detectives questioned Tinoco within days of his August arrest on Laube’s death, but were unable to develop enough evidence to connect him until after his sentencing.
It’s believed Tinoco planned to sexually assault her like he did with the second victim.