The 37-year-old will serve the rest of his life in prison after brutally beaten and strangled his pregnant girlfriend in Kennevik’s apartment and then throw his body into the river.
While Judge Joe Burrouz condemned Richard Jacobson to life on Monday without the possibility of conditional release, he added that if any case required a longer plan, it was the case.
“The court found that the crimes were not only intentional and deliberate, but were committed with a level of cruelty, which shocked the conscience of a normal person,” Burrose said.
Jacobson said nothing during the hearing.
Richard Jacobson, 37, enters the High Court of Benton County for his sentence for the murder of Brandi Ebanez in 2022.
The jury only took 45 minutes on June 18 to find Jacobson guilty of a first-degree aggravated murder of 34-year-old Brandi Ebanez. Their decision followed six days of testimony by 28 witnesses.
According to the Washington State Act, this crime bears a mandatory life sentence without a conditional release.
“It is necessary not only as a punishment, but also as a measure of deterrent and statement of the commitment of the Law on Protection of Vulnerable,” Burrose said. “While this sentence is legally managed … If there was even more, which the court can give, this case is this case.”
Ebanez, who was four or five months pregnant during the murder, was the goal of years of abuse by Jacobson, said Deputy Prosecutor Julie Long during a hearing on Monday morning.
Proponents of the victim of the murder Brandi Ebanes and other members of the Community attend the sentence for Richard Jacobson at the Center for Justice of Benton County in Kennevik.
Her mother tried to make her leave the man, but Ebanes said he loved him.
“She just refused to leave it despite the command without contact and the ongoing abuse,” Long said. “This love for this defendant was eventually fatal to her.”
Police investigators stand outside the apartment on the second floor of 3703 W. Kennewick Ave during the search for clues for the death of Brandi Ebanez in September 2022.
He was recently released from prison on charges of breaking the order without contact when he moved back with her and her two daughters to their apartment Kennewick. In September 2022, a dispute became violent, and Jacobson won and strangled her.
He hid her body under the bed in their bedroom while buying plastic bags, cleaning supplies, a hand truck and two landscaping bricks. He sank her weighted body into the Colombia River, but it was spotted by a police officer at Kenwick, who at that time hunted.
Brandi Ebanes’ body was found to sail in the Colombia River down on the Cable Bridge on the Kenvik side on the coastline in September 2022.
On Monday, prosecutors also asked the judge to issue an order for no life -free contact to stop Jacobson from contacting his two daughters. The girls were in the apartment when their mother was killed and faced a lifetime trauma, Long said.
Jacobson will still be responsible for nearly $ 11,000 for restitution for their consulting bills.
The biggest daughter of the couple, who was 12 years old during the murder, told interviewers that she saw Jacobson hit her mother at least 100 times.
“He will hit her and hit her and pull her and spit on her,” Long said. The daughter eventually had to take care of her sister during these attacks.
“Obviously, there is an impact on life on both girls. They are without their mother and know that this happened while they were in the House,” Long said. “You heard that the eldest daughter talks about how he should live with this decision and that is too much burden to carry for this young girl. She was only 12 years old. She was not her responsibility not her responsibility to try to take care of her mother.”
A memorial with flowers, candles and a large banner honors the victim of the murder Brandi Ebanez of Kenwick in the Colombia River.
Defense defender Michael Vander Sis presented Jacobson’s news to appeal the sentence.
He claims that Jacobson should not be banned forever to contact his daughters. He noted that alternative options because of the protection that parents have under the state constitution must be taken into account.
Burrowes approved the order without contact and said that Jacobson’s daughters can decide if they seek contact with him someday.