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February 7 - February 7, 2024
he owned and told him that he’d be sleeping on the floor of the computer room. For some reason, Ron didn’t resist anything
restricting access to the bathroom. Shelly said Ron needed her permission to use the bathroom.
Restricting access to the bathroom '
Tori
Tori did the same thing.
so she peed into a container too. She’d dump hers out her window in the morning.
Ron and Tori pee in ne comarmos
She’d told one client that she didn’t need to take her medication, which led some staff members to worry that Shelly’s interference with doctors’ orders could lead to tragic and irrevocable outcomes.
lying directly to her coworkers.
office messages from home and deleting them without relaying the information to the respective parties.
of the feelings of a coworker. “[She] is unable to trust Michelle.
Ron Woodworth wrote a letter to Shelly’s director,
June 19, 2001, Olympic Area Agency on Aging cut her a severance check for $4,849
Sandra Broderick, moved from the Tacoma area to Copalis Beach on the Washington Coast, a little more than an hour from Raymond. She wanted to reconnect with Ron, who was living with the
Ron’s world was now a black hole of money trouble, legal trouble, and family trouble. And Shelly was right there, stirring the pot, making things worse and worse.
notably the infestation of fleas that she’d told a reporting agency had been the by-product of Ron’s cats. “I
okay. They’re with me. I’m watching them.”
Sandy, Oregon,
July 2001 when Nikki called to say she was thinking of heading down to Oregon also to see about finding a new job.
Nikki was the baby she had nurtured years ago when Shelly had abandoned her.
“I have something to tell you,” she began. Lara could tell she’d been up all night. Nikki’s eyes were wet and red. She’d obviously been crying.
Louderback
Jim Bergstrom
said later.
[a] lot of white foaming stuff was coming out of Kathy’s mouth. I think Mom poisoned her. Or caused Kathy so much brain damage from hitting her in the head. But Kathy wasn’t moving. I think she was dead.
“Mom’s going to do something really bad if she knows I told. Or she’s going to blame Dad. I hope Dad doesn’t commit suicide because of me.”
“Look,” he said, “either you tell the police, or I will.”
Shelly was going to pay for what she’d done to Kathy.
“I’m planning a trip to Disneyland,” Shelly announced, completely
think Mom had Shane killed.”
Nikki told Sami mom had shame filed killed
Pacific County sheriff’s deputy Jim Bergstrom what she knew about Kathy. Bergstrom
declined to call him back.
Shelly occasionally withheld food from Tori.
was out in the yard, naked, doing jumping jacks or running in place in the living room while her mother sat on the sofa.
“Two hours later you love her again because she’d be holding you and saying, I’m sorry, I love you.”
Watch ton Tori put stunner roots boots
“I want you to put it in your boots!” It didn’t make any
She was only ten or eleven at the time, yet she knew this was bizarre.
thought Shelly was at her wit’s end too. He made a note of it:
“It’s papers for Ron. It’s nothing, I tell you. Not about Kathy.”
She said that Kathy’s death had taken a terrible toll on her too. She
Shelly took away his clothes and, as was her MO, made him work outside only in his underwear.
don’t love you anymore, Tori,” he finally said.
Shelly resented the two of them having any kind of relationship.
Sami was in the middle. She was the golden child.
But could her mom really be doing to Ron what she had done to Kathy?
“He’s really good with Tori.
crap, Nikki thought before trying to put it out of her mind. Something is happening.
“Put this down your pants.”
“I don’t want to see that axe out of your pants until everything is done. Do you understand?”
lumpy and Tori pulled back the covers, exposing the family’s kitchen and bathroom trash. She knew her mother had put it there, and she knew why.
Tori shook her panties and white dust fell to the floor. It was the Gold Bond that her mother routinely sprinkled inside. Sometimes when Tori was around
