Double murder case puts state system for criminally insane in question


Anthony Montwheeler leaves a Malheur County Circuit Court hearing in Vale. (Malheur Enterprise/Pat Caldwell)
At a hearing before the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board two years ago, Anthony Montwheeler explained why he should be set free despite 50 years to go under state control for kidnapping his first wife and their son.
He said he had calculated how to make himself seem insane.
“Either I can go to prison or I could … go to…





