Tag: Seattle

For nearly a month, 17-year-old Ruth DeMerrit had been missing from her home in Kirkland, a quiet suburb of Seattle.  She had last been seen…

Chester Thompson, 19, shot and killed Judge George Meade Emory in a love-fueled altercation involving Emory’s niece, Charlotte Whittlesey.  The event happened during the summer…

The Fort Steilacoom Asylum, later known as the Western State Mental Hospital, was a place of greed, captivity, and abuse. While the old asylum is…