The man accused of stabbing a woman to death is scheduled to appear in court today.
Lukah Chang, a Marine Corps deserter is expected to appear in Umatilla County Court today to change his pleas on charges he stabbed to death a motel mail and severely beat a woman on a jogging path, according to the Associated Press.
Chang was arrested last August after police recognized him from surveillance video from the jogging path.
According to the AP, DNA evidence from the motel room was linked to DNA from the pipe used in the beating on the jogging path.
After he was arrested, Chang told investigators he had been a Marine Corps meteorologist, and was wanted for desertion after getting on a bus at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and never going back.
The jogging victim was near death for months but is now recovering.
