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Police have arrested three people believed to be involved in the brutal beating to death<\/a> of a homeless man found in a vacant home in Klamath Falls, Oregon.<\/p>\n The Klamath Falls Police Department said in a statement that officers found Kolton Esparza just before 11 a.m. on Feb. 26 while performing a welfare call.<\/p>\n ‘I beat Kolton with a rock and stomped him out with my shoes.’<\/p>\n The homeless man was found naked, bound with rope, and beaten very badly. Police reported that he had signs of torture as well.<\/p>\n He was transported to a hospital, where he died a day later from his injuries.<\/p>\n After an investigation, police arrested two men and a woman for their involvement in his death.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say 49-year-old Jamie S. Harrington drove Esparza to the Eulalona Trailhead in Klamath Falls along with her brother, 34-year-old Reggie L. Townsend Jr., and a 39-year-old man named Wesley J. Powless, according to a probable cause affidavit.<\/p>\n Esparza was allegedly beaten by the men before he was able to run away, with them chasing after him.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say the men caught up to him near the vacant home and beat him with a brick or rock while kicking him. Powless and Townsend allegedly cleaned up the scene and left with evidence in a black garbage bag.<\/p>\n A medical examiner found that the man’s cause of death was “severe head trauma.”<\/p>\n Investigators claimed<\/a> to have obtained a confession letter from Townsend to his girlfriend that read, “I beat Kolton with a rock and stomped him out with my shoes.”<\/p>\n KDRV-TV also reported that Townsend had been released only three months prior after serving a sentence for manslaughter.<\/p>\n RELATED: <\/strong>Elderly man confesses to killing his daughter and wife with an ax to avoid homelessness after losing his job, police say<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n