William Hargrove Wiki, Biography
In April 2017, William Hargrove fatally shot his 26-year-old Russian girlfriend Anna Repkina near a logging road near Alsea in Oregon. Repkina’s body was discovered by two caretakers in the rubbish.
Anna, who had moved from Russia to the US to be with Hargrove, became entangled in a love triangle between him and his other girlfriend, Michelle Chavez. While Chavez was initially okay with Hargrove and Anna’s relationship, he soon gave him an ultimatum to end things with Anna. However, what he did not anticipate was that Hargrove would kill the latter.
He borrowed his friend’s shotgun, and just a month after she moved to the US to be with him, Hargrove shot and killed Anna.
In January 2020, Hargrove was found guilty of second-degree murder and identity theft and sentenced to life in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon.
The intricate history of the love triangle was explored in Investigation Discovery’s true crime series Calls From the Inside. The episode, titled An Inconvenient Romance, aired on January 31, 2023, and its synopsis read:
“William Hargrove loves both Anna and Michelle: when Michelle tells him he has to choose between them, he chooses her, and Anna ends up dead”
Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of murder. Discretion Advised.
Chávez gave William an ultimatum that led him to kill Anna
William had already been dating Michelle Chavez when he met Anna Repkina on an online dating site. Meanwhile, Michelle was already married and her husband was okay with her dating another man. Hargrove soon began renting a room in the same apartment where Michelle, her husband, and two of her children lived.
Michelle had met William at a bar, where he worked as a bouncer.
Chávez made peace with Anna
When Hargrove met Anna online, they seemed to have a connection and soon began dating online. During the first few months of her relationship, Michelle didn’t seem to have a problem with her boyfriend dating another woman.
However, at one point, she decided to leave her husband and start a life with Hargrove. At that time, the latter had promised his two girlfriends that he would split his time between the two of them.
The problems in the love triangle escalated when Anna posted a photo on Facebook announcing her relationship with Hargrove. She also shared a photo of a ring given to her by Hargrove. However, it was the same ring that Chavez gave Hargrove as a promise ring.
This angered Chavez, and he confronted her boyfriend, asking her to choose between her and Anna. She told him that she would have to leave the latter if he wanted her in her life.
William borrowed his friend’s shotgun to kill Anna.
Every Friday, William would get together with his friends and it was during one of them that he asked his friend Kevin Thomas to lend him a shotgun because he wanted to “let off steam”.
He used the gun to kill Anna and dump her body in the trash, where two caretakers found it. Although they quickly zeroed in on Kevin when they found a bill with her name on it in the trash, he told investigators that he had met Hargrove at a nearby fast-food restaurant on what was later discovered to be the day of the murder.
Hargrove began withdrawing cash from Anna’s bank account. After killing Anna, the doorman began taking cash from his bank account and used it to buy her own things.
The doorman reportedly even regretted killing Anna and would often talk to his friends about going back in time to help someone right a “horrible mistake.” Three years after killing Anna, Hargrove was sentenced to life in prison, which is where he currently stands.
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