Empty Promises

Prosecutors Hank Corscadden, Kristin Richardson and Marilyn Brenneman. (Leslie Rule)

Ann Rule talking to Redmond Detective Greg Mains during a break when the State’s case was going well toward the end of the trial. (Leslie Rule)

The stairs to the front door of Steve and Jami’s house on Education Hill. Redmond investigators suspect that Steve hit Jami at the top of these stairs, and she plunged down. (Police photo)

Steve Sherer hears the jury’s verdict
on the afternoon of June 8, 2000. After the jury was excused, Steve turned toward Judy Hagel, Jami’s mother, his face contorted with rage, and roared a four-letter obscenity at her. Corrections officers escorted him out of the courtroom. (Leslie Rule)

BITTER LAKE

    Police had questions for Patrick Lehn when they learned that Kathi Jones had been trying to break off a relationship with him. (Police photo)

Seattle Detective Mike Tando checks for further evidence at the attack scene. (Police photo)

Seattle Detective John Boatman supervises the processing of the victim’s sports car at the police garage. (Police photo)

LOVE AND INSURANCE

    Lorraine Lacey hurried to the spot on Hippie Hill where she’d seen
the gun flash and found a man on the ground, his body pelted by rain, bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth. She found a broken black umbrella and propped it over his face to keep the rain off him until police came. (Police photo)

Gareth Leifbach was convicted of the murder of Larry Duerksen and is currently asking for parole. (Police photo)

Detective Mike Tando worked the baffling case. (Ann Rule)

Sergeant Don Cameron headed the probe into Larry Duerksen’s murder. (Ann Rule)

THE GENTLER SEX

    Carol Hargis being led from the court by an unidentified court officer. Carol plotted ineptly with her girlfriend Teri Depew to kill her husband, David.

Sandra Treadway enjoyed a successful “open” marriage with her husband–;until he asked for a divorce. (Police photo)

Detectives Walt Stout and Terry Murphy teamed up to obtain incriminating statements from the key witness. (Police photo)

THE CONJUGAL VISIT

    Carl Cletus Bowles with an unidentified FBI agent. He already had a long string of felonies on his record and was in prison when he was allowed a conjugal visit at a Motel 6. He managed to dupe his guard and escape. His murderous path of destruction had only begun.

Lane County Deputy Carlton E. Smith lies alongside the road where he was ruthlessly shot dead after he stopped a car for a routine traffic check.

KILLERS ON THE ROAD

    Pretty, trusting Deanna Buse vanished after work and was found days later on a lonely road that ended in a thick forest.

In the foreground of these photos, Thomas Braun (left) and Leonard Maine (right) proved key suspects. (Police photo)

A DANGEROUS MIND

    The braided, tasseled rope that Arnold Brown described as the murder weapon. Police found the hemp rope lying against the fence on the east side of the backyard of a quiet family home. The medical examiner said it fit exactly into the indentations on Jannie’s neck. (Police photo)

Arnold Brown was doted on by his family, and they always protected him from punishment. His sexual aberrations were deadly and bizarre and in the end, he alone decreed what his punishment would be. (Police photo)

Seattle Police Sergeant Don Cameron, “Mr. Homicide” of the Seattle Police Department, directed the probe into the bizarre death of little Jannie Reilly in her own home. (Ann Rule)

Detective John Nordlund looked at Arnold and said quietly, “I think you are a sick person, and that you killed Jannie. You probably belong in a mental hospital.” The suspect replied, “I probably do.” (Ann Rule)

TO KILL AND KILL AGAIN

    Pretty Carole Adele often took a shortcut through a weedy lot coming home from the library. One night, she took her customary path and was viciously assaulted and stabbed to death.

Joann Zulauf’s sweet smile lingers only in this photo. Like Carol Adele, she was attacked on a lonely path so sheltered by trees that no one could help her.

Court deputy John DeMattea (left) and defense attorney C.N. “Nick” Marshall (center) escort Gary Gene Grant from the King County courtroom. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree on four counts. Gary Grant seemed harmless and somewhat shy to those who thought they knew him.

THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

    Investigators found the body of the victim where it had rolled down an embankment with a helping push