Without Pity
Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers
Chapter One
The Tumbledown Shack
After writing more than a
thousand articles about homicide
cases, I suppose it's natural that
some of them blur slightly in my
memory. However, there are those
that I recall vividly, and I even
remember my own life at the time
I first researched their tragic
details. The story that follows
brings back gloomy recollections
of four days when I was trapped
by a blizzard in Wenatchee,
Washington. The sheriff of
adjoining Okanogan County had
given me a ride from Seattle over
the Cascade Mountains on
November 16, 1978, and I planned
to take the bus back after I'd
talked to Chelan County homicide
detectives. But a huge snowstorm
clogged the mountain passes and
no car, bus, train, or plane could
get through. That meant I couldn't
get home until the road thawed.
All the sidewalks in Wenatchee
were covered with four or five
inches of ice that weekend and
many stores had closed. Stuck in a
little motel, all I had to read was
the police file of this horrifying
case. I found no diversion from
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