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Gregg Olsen
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February 7 - February 7, 2024
Gold bond on labia
and it died. Probably
Kaye Thomas (and coincidentally, the reason Kaye had moved her family up to South Bend in the first place).
Ron’s things, including some blankets.
Sami that Shelly was caring for an elderly man named
knew had been worried about Shane, and they said the same thing. They hadn’t heard from anyone either.
“after Sissy dies,” she went on, “Mac’s house and everything goes to me.”
she’d seemed a little lost.
she began to resent him for coming home. It seemed that her mother bottled up a lot of her anger at Ron until her father arrived to carry out whatever punishment he’d been instructed to do.
“You fucking prick! Do it!”
his face repeatedly so hard that his head jerked back with each self-inflicted blow.
His face went red and he was crying.
found that time stood still when their mother tortured her victims.
Brand prank drank his own pa
She went out to the yard to show Ron how to keep the gas-powered garden tool running.
that Mac had indeed died.
Mack died
She’d been left $5,000. There was the matter of his dog, Sissy, of course. But Sissy was old. She couldn’t live much longer, and then Shelly would inherit Mac’s house, worth more than $140,000.
Mac died as a result of acute subdural hematoma caused by a blunt impact to the head.
“He fell out of his wheelchair and bonked his head real hard. Ron just stood there and let it happen. Waited too long to call for help in time to save him. Ron’s a useless prick, Tori.
that Sissy got hit
Le about killing the dog
nine months after Lara and Nikki had first sounded the alarm about what had happened to Kathy Loreno, Lara Watson received
out what happened to Kathy Loreno. Have you talked
defended Nikki to Tori when Tori would parrot how disrespectful and rotten Nikki was, but only to a point.
Why would Nikki’s tormenter be invited?
Tori’s, and her birthstones set in a gold band, a gift Sami planned to give Shelly the next day, Mother’s Day. The ring was another small secret in a family that had kept and buried countless secrets.
been toxic, he couldn’t stop loving her.
Bunny. “I hate leaving you here. It breaks my heart so very much. I want to be close to you all the time in my life.”
survive much longer, not without a big change.
Shelly had no idea why she was being treated so
the harassment.
Michelle and her husband. One police officer even indicated to Dave that he should be careful tonight when he was driving.”
Whenever there was a knock on the door, Shelly would insist that he hide. “Don’t make a sound! They’ll take you and put you away for good!”
Sandra Broderick saw her old friend Ron Woodworth was over a meal at Slater’s Diner in Raymond in the summer of 2002.
He indicated, for the first and only time, that there were some things going on with Shelly that were bothering him.
might have seen what Shelly was able to hide.
Nikki saw her mother was at the Olive Garden in Olympia in 2002, the year Mac died.
- Nikki Last saw Shelly at Olive Garden in 2002
someone else was suffering. There had to be a word for a person who found joy in another’s pain. Whatever it was eluded her. To smile when someone screamed? To revel in the agony of a cut, a burn?
Jim Bergstrom attempted to serve a restraining order against Ron,
the spring of 2003.
though he was pretty sure someone was home.
Kathy Loreno. He told her Kathy’s family was still worried that she’d just disappeared with that trucker boyfriend. He told Shelly that one of Kathy’s brothers had tried to find his sister with a private investigator and her mom had run a missing person ad in the paper.
Shelly told Sami that she’d run into Kathy’s mother, Kaye, at a grocery store.
Sami was tentative. “Rocky?”
wouldn’t—couldn’t—have prepared Shelly for what happened next as the heat on the burner went from medium to high.
Olympia on April 18, 2003.
Shelly got a type where letter
my life,” Tori recalled years later. “It was like the smell of bleach and decomposing flesh, like it was burning his skin off. And it just was terrible. He smelled like he was rotting, literally the smell of dying flesh. He smelled like that for a month. Up until the very end.”
later, when Dave Knotek was told that bleach actually damages human skin, he seemed genuinely surprised.
calling. Shelly called Dave at his job in the summer of 2003 to say she was worried. She might have been a little panicked too. She tried to make arrangements to drop Ron off at a homeless shelter in Aberdeen. Ron wouldn’t hear of it. He flatly refused. It was like she was stuck with him. She wanted him gone.
