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Gregg Olsen
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February 7 - February 7, 2024
In some ways, that made a little sense to Dave. Kids did need a firm hand. He
river landing.
end what was happening to Kathy.
When Shelly blamed Shane for the cognitive issues Kathy was having, Dave didn’t call her out.
Tupperware container of feces on the kitchen floor. Shelly ran to the kitchen
Shelly was immediately on top of her, lashing her with the cord. Kathy started crying and begging Shelly to stop hurting her, but she wouldn’t let up.
The fact that Shelly had revoked Kathy’s bathroom privileges made no difference.
He liked Kathy. They all did. Yes, she’d misbehaved, but he didn’t want to beat her, kick her. It was pointless and—though
“Waterboard her.”
Water board?
“Won’t anyone help
he lowered Kathy’s face and head into the bucket of water.
Maybe ten minutes or so. Long enough to freeze the image of Kathy, naked, duct-taped, and screaming for help, in Nikki’s memory forever.
Seattle-area home while her children played outside, and she took herself back to that time when she was a teenager in Raymond.
Shelly seemed to treat her like a sadist’s worst pet.
She always had a reason for all the shit she did to us and Kathy.”
After that was done, Shelly gave Kathy some pills and told her to take those too. Then they locked the door and left.
Salt and pills
about the horses being neglected, nothing was ever reported. Even after the kids on the bus saw a naked woman running in the yard, Shelly’s
Every mark told a story of how Kathy had made Shelly angry.
loss. She’d lost more than a hundred pounds since she’d moved in with the Knoteks.
bleach straight
Glittery pieces of tempered glass scattered. Kathy was crying, and Sami tried to keep her from getting hurt, but she’d rolled around into the glass and cut her abdomen and legs.
She was just a big, giant bruise.” Sami felt the vibe in the room shift. By then Nikki had joined the three of them.
full well there was no turning back. Kathy needed to go to the hospital, though Shelly insisted that she could help her.
Tori’s cartoons
“Kathy is lazy, and she needs to get stronger. You’re enabling her, Sami. We want Kathy better, right? She needs to get better on her own.”
July 1994 Kathy
And Kathy.
July 1994,
“She’s not breathing, Shane!”
Kathy wasn't breathing
Kathy Loreno was dead.
Kathy died
The girls remembered Shelly looked white when she came back to the car.
“She’s gone,” he told Shelly when the kids left the room.
Although Shane knew what was going on,
“Yeah, she’s dead,” he said. “She’s really dead. Holy fuck.”
Shelly packed up the girls for a motel near Westport.
he and Shelly were normal people caught up in a tragedy that would
He was going to have to get rid of her body.
that he burned Kathy Loreno’s body during “graveyard hours,” without seeming to grasp the irony of his own statement.
Burned her body
Burning there wasn’t unusual. It’s where they burned the trash.
It took more than five hours to make Kathy vanish by the faint light of daybreak.
he loaded up some Home Depot buckets and drove out to Washaway Beach, where he carried Kathy’s remains to the ocean.
Put her in the ocular.
He returned to Washaway three more times. He also took some of the ashes and dirt from the firepit to Long Beach and disposed of them there.
when he saw Kathy’s mom, Kaye, around town.
Kaye
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doubted it. No one takes a five-year route to kill herself.
S years
She led the pair outside to the pole building and handed them a Home Depot bucket.
“Yeah,” she said, feeling sick inside. “It’s part of Kathy.” Shane found quite a few pieces of what they both knew were fragments of bone, not insulation.
Bone not insulation
She made Shane look in the burn pile a second and third time over the next few days.
Rocky. I introduced them and the two of them hit it off.
