The decision to accept the offer of a polygraph test is, was and always will be the moment when people…
Bellingham, Washington. Saturday, March 24, 1984. John Peel arrived at the Bellingham police station a little bit after three in the…
Even as Joe Weiss arrived in Bellingham on Wednesday, March 21, 1984, Stogsdill was orchestrating a media blitz in the…
In our last installment, we discussed witness Joe Weiss, who’d spoken to an Investor skiff man at the Craig Cold…
Friday Harbor is the primary population center on San Juan Island, one of multiple islands in an archipelago that stretches…
Maybe it was something in the air. Or, more likely, the slap of police shoe leather on the pavement. Whatever…
The one thing missing from early contacts with witnesses were line-up photos of John Peel. Sergeant Stogsdill was determined to…
When John Peel was at the Bellingham Police station, the troopers showed him some photographs. And asked him questions about…
As the trooper investigation moved forward, much would depend on the timing of two critical events. The first of these was…
After talking to the Coulthursts, Sergeant Stogsdill now wanted to interview John Peel. He had a boatload of questions for him — including…