Who was Osa Marie Beck Gordon, Jim Gordon’s mother?
Sarah Richards
Published Jan 01, 2026
Osa Marie Beck Gordon’s child, Jim Gordan, who was sentenced for her homicide died on Monday at the California Clinical Office in Vacaville. He was 77 and died of schizophrenia.
His death was affirmed by a marketing expert, Bounce Merlis, who told Gordon died of regular causes “after a long imprisonment and deep rooted fight with psychological maladjustment.”
Who was Osa Marie Beck Gordon? Osa Marie Beck Gordon was 72 years of age when her child, Jim Gordan, who was a drummer gone after her on June 3, 1983. He went after her with a sledge before lethally wounding her with a butcher blade. He later guaranteed that a voice advised him to kill her.
He was captured and after a legitimate finding, he was affirmed experiencing schizophrenia. At the point when his preliminaries started, the court acknowledged that he had intense schizophrenia, yet wasn’t permitted to get a craziness safeguard on account of changes to California regulation because of the Madness Guard Change Act.
Jim Gordon, Eric Clapton drummer and convicted murderer, dead at 77
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The drummer was condemned to 16 years to life in jail on July 10, 1984. Being qualified for parole in 1991, he pursued for something similar however was denied on numerous occasions since he never went to the conference. He was denied parole until 2018 when he denied going to his hearing in 2014.
The Los Angeles representative lead prosecutor that Gordon was still “genuinely mentally weakened” and “a peril when he isn’t taking his prescription.” He was again determined to have schizophrenia in November 2017. His parole was denied for the 10th time in Walk 2018 and was assessed to become qualified in Walk 2021.
He was carrying out his punishment at the California Clinical Office for killing his mom, Osa Marie Beck Gordon when he died on Walk 13, 2023.