Ruth Neslund sits with her attorney, Fred Weedon, at her trial. He was very supportive of her, and did his best to see her acquitted, but would eventually speak of his own doubts. (Seattle Times)
IT (AIN’T) HARD OUT THERE FOR THE PIMPS
Had Arden Lee known about this man’s long, long rap sheet for crimes, including sexual assault, she might never have accepted his invitation to have a drink at his house. In reality, he had no house, and his job as the bouncer at the Exotica “Dance Studio” didn’t pay much. His confession was full of lies and cruelty. He was sentenced to forty years in prison. (Seattle PD photo)
The victim of a savage attack had to crawl naked up these marble steps of a once-grand apartment to cry for help. Shockingly, a number of passersby ignored her pleas. (Seattle PD crime scene photo)
Handsome and wealthy through the efforts of the desperate women who worked for him, this man gave up the name of Arden Lee’s rapist, but he had secrets of his own. When he forced one of his “dancers” to sleep between him and his teenaged bride to keep her from escaping, she grabbed a knife and stabbed him while he slept.
Sergeant Beryl Thompson had many years of experience in the Sex Crimes Unit of the Seattle Police Department, but she had never seen anyone as badly injured as the naked girl discovered near the Melrose apartments.
Seattle PD’s Sex Crimes Unit detectives John Nordlund, left, and Pat Lamphere haunted the Exotica, a “dancing lesson” storefront business, and eventually tracked the suspect in Arden Lee’s near-fatal sexual assault all the way to Houston before they solved the case. Their unwelcome surprise visits to the Exotica soon forced it out of business.
A good samaritan rushed to help the terribly injured rape victim, and soon the neighborhood of 1920s apartments was alive with police vehicles. Paramedics from the Seattle Fire Department’s top-rated Medic One unit weren’t sure, however, if they could save her life. Seattle police investigators wondered if she would ever be able to name her attacker. (Seattle PD crime scene photo)
THE RUNAWAY AND THE SOLDIER
Teresa Sterling, who looked a great deal like actress Jodie Foster, was only sixteen when she ran away from home in Georgia to return to a more exciting life on the West Coast. She believed she was fully capable of taking care of herself, and depended on “the kindness of strangers.” But then she vanished completely. (Police evidence photo)
Jealousy sent this man into a rage, and tragedy ensued in the woods. He changed his life and tried to forget what he had done.
Detective Roy Gleason of the Bellevue Police Department was in charge of solving a long-undiscovered murder, identifying the victim, and finding whoever killed her. (Bellevue PD crime scene photo)
Although the body in the woods was in skeleton form, its position showed a bizarre and grotesque sexual attack had taken place. Working under high-powered lights, a Bellevue investigator shovels very, very carefully to find any evidence that might exist. (Bellevue PD crime scene photo)
Dr. John Eisele, left, of the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, came to the site of the skeletonized body and worked by flashlight as the December sunset plunged the woods into darkness. The investigators did not know cause of death or even if the victim was male or female. (Bellevue PD crime scene photo)
Bellevue investigators gather on a narrow road that ran close to the lonely woods where a strolling couple came across a skeleton. (Bellevue PD crime scene photo)
THE TRAGIC ENDING OF A BANK ROBBER’S FANTASY
Sam Jesse was a very tall and gawky young man, intelligent, but a “preacher’s kid” who sought a life of adventure and high living. His plans ended in disaster.
A hidden camera in the Prudential Bank catches the image of the tall bank robber just as Jill Mobley hands him the dye-pack of bills. He was so covered up that only a bit of his nose showed. But someone would recognize him. (Police photo)
A robber bought this Volkswagen “bug” with the profits from an earlier crime. He parked it far away from the bank, drove a stolen vehicle, and yet had the bad fortune to have a witness who memorized everything about it because she was a “bug fancier.” (Police file collection)
Sam Jesse put the stolen bills inside concrete blocks that held up his mattress. For a tragic reason, he never did come back to get them. (Police file photo)
When Seattle detectives searched Sam Jesse’s apartment, they found a plethora of physical evidence. Here, George Marberg holds the gun that was used in the fatal bank robbery. (Seattle PD crime scene photo)
Sam Jesse couldn’t spend the money he stole. An orange dye-pack set to go off as he got into his car stained every bill. Detectives found he had put the bills on every page of a book. Perhaps he hoped to find a way to remove the dye? (Seattle PD photo file)
Seattle Homicide Detective George Marberg followed the trail of a bank robber who thought he had planned the perfect scenario that would take away his money worries forever.
A VERY BAD CHRISTMAS
Just before Christmas, Portland, Oregon, newspapers printed these photographs. There seemed no other way to identify the young woman and the small girl who were found dead on Sauvie Island. Within a short time, two witnesses came forward after they recognized dear friends. They were even more shocked when they learned who their killer was.
Oregon State Police drag the river off Sauvie Island, looking for evidence connected to a discovery on the shore just before Christmas.
Multnomah County, Oregon, veteran Homicide Detective Darril MacNeel, who, with his long-time partner, “Blackie” Yazzolino, elicited a bizarre confession from the most unlikely suspect they had ever encountered.
TO SAVE THEIR SOULS
Christine Jonsen at her trial. From the judge to the jury to the gallery, and probably to the prosecutor, no one believed she should be there. But the law said differently.
. . . OR WE’LL KILL YOU
Kari Lindholm was in her twenties and working as a counselor in a crisis center when she was kidnapped by two very dangerous men. Her chances of survival were almost nil.
* Some names have been changed. The first time such names appear, they are marked with an asterisk.
* Booth Gardner, then Washington’s governor.
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