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A federal jury in Portland found Mark Leroy Dencklau and Chad Erickson guilty in the kidnapping and death of Robert Lee Huggins, whose body was found near Ridgefield, Washington, on July 1, 2015.

Huggins, 56, of Portland, Oregon, was a former member of the Portland chapter of the Gypsy Joker Outlaw Motorcycle Club. Dencklau, of Woodburn, Oregon, was president of the chapter, a position federal prosecutors said he held from 2003. Huggins had been stripped of his membership over allegations that he stole from the club. Prosecutors said he later broke into Dencklau's Woodburn home, tied up Dencklau's girlfriend and took several firearms. Dencklau then directed club members to find him.

On the evening of June 30, 2015, Huggins was taken from a residence in Northeast Portland and driven to a rural property in southwest Washington. He was beaten and tortured over several hours. His injuries included a fractured skull, lacerations to the chest and torso, and removed nipples. A medical examiner attributed his death to multiple blunt and sharp force injuries. His body was found the next day in a Clark County field near Ridgefield.

The Portland Police Bureau and the Clark County Sheriff's Office investigated with the ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, IRS Criminal Investigation, the Oregon State Police, the Washington County Sheriff's Office and the state crime labs of both states. On April 27, 2016, after about ten months of investigation, Clark County charges were announced against Dencklau, then 56; Earl Fisher, then 46; Tiler Pribbernow, then 34; and Malachi Watkins, then 32, in connection with the killing. Ronald Thompson, 51, and Kendra Castle, 43, were accused of hindering prosecution.

The case was later taken up federally. A grand jury in Portland indicted Dencklau, Fisher and Pribbernow on June 28, 2018, on murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping in aid of racketeering resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death. A superseding indictment on November 29, 2018, charged Dencklau, Fisher, Erickson, national club president Kenneth Earl Hause, Ryan Negrinelli and Joseph Folkerts with racketeering conspiracy. Fisher, Pribbernow, Negrinelli and Folkerts pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death.

The recording captures Dencklau being interviewed by investigators working the Huggins homicide. The date of the interview and the agency that conducted it are not established. It also has not been confirmed that Dencklau's girlfriend was appearing before a grand jury at the same time.

On November 30, 2021, a federal jury in Portland found Dencklau, then 61, and Erickson, then 51, of Rainier, Oregon, guilty of murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping in aid of racketeering resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping resulting in death. Dencklau was also found guilty of racketeering conspiracy. The jury acquitted Erickson and Hause of that charge. Dencklau and Erickson were sentenced to life in federal prison in April 2022, on a date reported as April 13, 2022. The kidnapping resulting in death counts carry a mandatory life term. Pribbernow was sentenced to 140 months, about 11 years and eight months. The sentences given to Fisher, Negrinelli and Folkerts, the disposition of the 2016 Clark County charges, and any appeal by Dencklau or Erickson are not established.

The video is an interview-room recording that runs about 85 minutes. It contains the police interview itself and opens with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.