Prosecutor in a Beaverton cold case murder contradicted DNA experts in closing argument

Prosecutor in a Beaverton cold case murder contradicted DNA experts in closing argument

A Washington County judge on Tuesday will sentence Robert Atrops for the three-decades-old murder of his wife, a crime that comes with a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Atrops was convicted in April, after a nearly three-week trial in which jurors heard evidence they found compelling enough to vote to convict the 70-year-old after just six hours of deliberations. Much of the evidence they heard is considered circumstantial — there were no …