10 Most Grisly Tri-Cities Crimes of 2016
As we wrap up 2016, let's take a look at some of the more eye-opening crime stories in Tri-Cities.
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Daniel Rowe
Daniel Rowe of Richland last August drove up to Olympia to beat up Black Lives Matter protesters disrespecting police officers. Not getting his opportunity, he chose to stab a kissing bi-racial couple instead:
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RIchard Heathman
Richard Heathman of Hermiston stabbed a woman in the neck and then tried to choke the responding officer.
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Anthony Garver
Anthony Garver escaped from Western State Hospital last spring. He was incarcerated for tying a 20-year-old woman to her bed with electrical cords, stabbing her 24 times in the chest and slashing her throat.
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Rayfield Cole
Rayfield Cole of Kennewick strangled and stabbed his girlfriend in front of her children last spring after she announced she was leaving him
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Rory Star
Rory Star arrested for threatening people with a knife last October in a Richland Starbucks shortly after being released from prison for stabbing a friend.
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Theresa Wiltse
Theresa Wiltse is accused of kidnapping and murdering a 69-year-old Kennewick woman in November
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John A. Feher and Heather Kristine Walbridge
Last March a Richland couple was arrested for trying to hire someone to kill her ex husband in Vancouver, WA.
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Casey Henderson
Last March Casey Henderson beat, choked and killed Katy Straalsund of Richland while they were at school together in Seattle.
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Nick Bryant
Nick Bryant is accused a stabbing his own girlfriend and Tri-Cities man Christopher Gilchrist Halloween night over meth. Gilchrist stumbled to a nearby home and got help from a woman handing out Halloween candy before dying.