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Gregg Olsen
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February 7 - February 7, 2024
she seemed happy to have tossed a grenade into the circle of her family, and to have received the attention she craved because of it.
She had to go to school. Lara
Shelly in Hoodsport, Washington,
living with Lara’s parents, who quickly learned to walk on eggshells around the teenager.
She had a mean streak that was sometimes hidden by a pretense of caring about someone or something.
Lazy?
volunteered to watch them for free.
When the parents came home from a night out, they found their children in bed with clothes still on and tales of how Shelly had barricaded them in their rooms with heavy furniture.
home.” Shelly had apparently also accused Lara’s father of abuse.
Watsons’ marriage was under unbearable strain.
was mired in the quicksand of raising five children, two of her own with Les and the three from his ex-wife, Sharon.
quiet—timid, even.
Paul was a habitual liar, like his older sister. While Shelly controlled
with Shelly as their ultimate leader.
yes from St. Mary of the Valley in Beaverton,
Oregon, about forty minutes south of Battle Ground.
It might not have been as far away as Lara hoped, but it was the best of a ver...
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they could come and get Shelly for the weekend.
“The sisters didn’t want her back the next year,” Lara said. “They told me she had behavior problems.”
Shelly would often wake up in the middle of the night screaming.
she put broken glass in a classmate’s shoe.
She spent her days telling Lara how much she hated her and how she wished Lara would curl up and die.
true. Lara didn’t need to look any further than her husband to see why. He gave Shelly everything she ever wanted. Despite all she’d done to him, literally smearing his name, Les treated Shelly like a little princess.
Bad treated shells Like a princess
Katie, was the next unwitting but well-meaning person to hurl a lifeline in the direction of the Watsons.
Sister Katie Les's
Her mother was murdered. Her dad was abusive. Her stepmom was mean to her.
Shelly’s pity party was a complete success.
East Coast was Shelly’s last stop on the high school education tour that had had her moving from school to school, family member to family member.
“The problems that [Shelly] caused between Katie and Frank were so bad they ended up getting a divorce.”
Shelly caused a divorce between aunt lame and while Frank
She was not yet eighteen and she’d already met her future husband.
Randy Rivardo first laid eyes on Shelly Watson in the summer of 1971, when she was seventeen.
her aunt and uncle in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, and attending high school at Franklin Regional High.
Italian heritage.
Washington, where she took a job as a nurse’s aide at her father’s nursing home.
“My dad will put you up in a rent-free apartment,”
researching the cost of tuition at Clark College in Vancouver, Randy made up his mind. He
They wanted a husband for Shelly.
wedding plans were likely already in the works. It didn’t take long for the hook to be reeled in.
Les treated Randy like a lon...
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“They rushed this thing so much that Les picked out my best man because I didn’t have any friends or family in the area,”
Les picked Randy's best man because they wanted him to marry their daughter so body
None of Randy’s relatives or friends made it to the wedding. Later, a family member discovered the reason: Shelly never mailed them the invitations.
Olivia Hussey wore in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet.
A reception followed at the historic Summit Grove Lodge in nearby Ridgefield.
love. At least Randy thought so.
they lived rent free in a forty-foot trailer owned by the Watsons.
Lived in a trailer
severe menstrual cramping and began to miss work at the nursing home.
he fired his daughter.
Missed wor
_ K due to cramps
“She would then revert back to her dad’s nursing home,” Randy said. “Like
She was a lot like Grandma Anna that way.
she made a beeline for her daddy.
Watsons were afraid of Shelly and what she might do.
they’d immediately fork over the cash.
Pay for Shelly to do everything so the does mod
