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Nov 30, 2008 · The following is a summary of cases in which the Kitsap County prosecutor — C. Dan Clem until 1995 and Russell Hauge thereafter — chose to seek the death penalty in the time since the law was enacted. The defendant's ages are from the time of the crime. James J. Daugherty, 33. The case: Convicted of shooting to death Vicki Perrault in ...
May 1, 2024 · Published May 1, 2024 4:42pm PDT. Bothell. FOX 13 Seattle. Ex-Bothell city councilmember arrested for murder after his ‘attorney’ calls 911. James McNeal, a 58-year-old former councilmember of the Bothell City Council, was arrested by Seattle police on suspicion of murder Tuesday night in South Seattle. SEATTLE - James McNeal, a 58-year-old ...
Mar 2, 1991 · Prosecutor Accused Of Racist Statement. Mar 2, 1991. Richard Seven. A Seattle attorney has accused Kitsap County Prosecutor C. Danny Clem of making a racist remark to him in a courtroom and is demanding that Clem's office withdraw from a capital-murder case. The defense for Jonathan Lee Gentry, will ask in a Monday hearing that Clem and his ...
- Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping, 1935
- D. B. Cooper Skyjacking, 1971
- Ted Bundy Murders, 1970s
- The Green River Killer, 1980s
- Wah Mee Massacre, 1983
- Mia Zapata Murder, 1993
- Mary Kay Letourneau, 1997
- Elf Arson, 2001
- Capitol Hill Massacre, 2006
- Teresa Butz Murder, 2009
›› On May 24, 1935,George Weyerhaeuser, nine-year-old heir to the Weyerhaeuser lumber fortune, vanished on his way home from school in Tacoma. That evening, a letter arrived at his house demanding $200,000 in unmarked bills within five days—or else. The ransom note ordered the family to communicate with the kidnappers via the personal ads in the Se...
›› On Thanksgiving Eve 1971,an unassuming-looking man in his 40s boarded a Seattle-bound Northwest Orient Airlines flight departing from Portland, Oregon. He settled into his seat and ordered a bourbon and soda. A few minutes later he handed the stewardess a note saying he had a bomb. Thus began one of the most daring crimes in Northwest history. T...
›› The epitome of the charming but cold-blooded killer,Ted Bundy murdered more than 30 women (and perhaps as many as a hundred) in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Florida. A clean-cut law student, he often lured victims by pretending to be an authority figure or faking an injury, then bludgeoned or strangled and raped them, leaving their de...
›› In the early 1980s, dozens of prostitutes and teenage runaways disappeared from the strip along Highway 99/Pacific Highway South near SeaTac. Authorities found many of their bodies floating in the Green River or dumped in forlorn areas along the freeway. Police arrested Auburn truck painter Gary Ridgway in 2001, crediting DNA advances for helpin...
›› The site of the worst mass killing in Seattle’s historylies down an alley in Chinatown, home to bakeries and gift shops, and near the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. On February 18, 1983, Kwan Fai “Willie” Mak, Benjamin Ng, and Tony Ng (no relation) burst into the historic Wah Mee gambling club, hog-tying its 14 occupants, robbing them, shooting th...
›› The death of Gits front woman Mia Zapataon July 7, 1993, left a gaping hole in Seattle’s punk music scene. The Gits, known for energetic live performances and Zapata’s passionate vocals, had just returned from a successful West Coast tour, and stardom—or at least a major record deal—seemed the next step. Those dreams, and Zapata’s life, ended wh...
›› It was hard to look awayfrom the case of the 34-year-old Burien schoolteacher caught having sex with her 12-year-old student. And the story grew only more sordid as the years went on: Mary Kay Letourneau was pregnant with a daughter by the student, Vili Fualaau, when arrested in 1997. She served three months in jail, but was caught weeks after h...
›› In the early hours of May 21, 2001, members of the Earth Liberation Front broke into the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture and stashed a homemade firebombin a filing cabinet. The resulting flames burned for over two hours, causing $7 million in damages. The ELF said it was targeting UW professor Toby Bradshaw for his work on genetically enginee...
›› The word that kept coming up was inexplicable.Why did Kyle Aaron Huff accept an invitation to a Capitol Hill rave after party on March 25, 2006, hang out and drink with the friendly group (all of them strangers), then go to his truck for a pistol-grip shotgun, a semiautomatic handgun, and 300 rounds of ammunition? One clue seemed to be the word ...
›› In the early hours of July 19, 2009,a man named Isaiah Kalebu crept through an open window in the South Park home that Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper shared. The details of the terror that unfolded would horrify the city: how Kalebu raped the couple in multiple ways and multiple times, slicing them with a knife; how he used their love for each ...
Nov 2, 2023 · A Seattle Police Department patrol vehicle blocks off a section of Northeast 55th Street in the University District while homicide detectives investigate a man’s death on Thursday, November 2, 2023.
Nov 2, 2023 · Seattle Police (SPD) are investigating after a man in his 50s was killed Thursday morning in the city’s University District. The incident happened in the 5500 block of University Way Northeast ...
Oct 12, 2021 · RELATED: Woman accused of lying in unsolved slaying of Seattle attorney pleads guilty to obstruction. The reward for information leading to the conviction of the killer has been increased from $1. ...
