Summary of Ann Rule's Without Pity

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#1 The town of Chelan is forty miles north of Wenatchee, and it exists mostly because of Lake Chelan, the second largest inland lake in America. Tourists flock to Lake Chelan, where deep blue water cuts through dry hills for a hundred miles or more, ending at the isolated hamlet of Stehekin.

#2 In 1975, two young pickers came across a shed that had been attacked, and they reported it to the police. The deputy went to the scene and found two girls who had been raped.

#3 The three men waited for help to arrive, and when it did, they lifted the bodies of the two girls, who had been camping near the Columbia River, into the light. They were badly bruised and bloodied, and had been dead for days.

#4 The bodies of the girls were transported to Wenatchee, where they would be postmortem examined. The dog guarding the bodies was protective, but also silent. It would be difficult to get positive identification from the dog.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822524705

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The town of Chelan is forty miles north of Wenatchee, and it exists mostly because of Lake Chelan, the second largest inland lake in America. Tourists flock to Lake Chelan, where deep blue water cuts through dry hills for a hundred miles or more, ending at the isolated hamlet of Stehekin.

#2

In 1975, two young pickers came across a shed that had been attacked, and they reported it to the police. The deputy went to the scene and found two girls who had been raped.

#3

The three men waited for help to arrive, and when it did, they lifted the bodies of the two girls, who had been camping near the Columbia River, into the light. They were badly bruised and bloodied, and had been dead for days.

#4

The bodies of the girls were transported to Wenatchee, where they would be postmortem examined. The dog guarding the bodies was protective, but also silent. It would be difficult to get positive identification from the dog.

#5

The police received a lot of tips after the murders, but none that could lead them to the killer. The only witness was the dog, who was in the county jail eating food like he were starving.

#6

The victims’ friends from Oregon identified Beverly Johnson’s purse and said that they had knives with them, to use in camping out. They recognized the one knife in evidence, but the other knife was missing.

#7

The investigation took an odd turn when Brad King’s alibi was verified. He had been in Chelan County Jail in Washington for being drunk and disorderly. It was impossible for him to be in both Chelan and Lincoln City on the Sunday that detectives believed the women died.

#8

Someone had seen Beverly and Patty on Friday, September 26, in Wenatchee. They had been hitchhiking, and the girls had two dogs with them. The witness said the girls had reddish dogs with them.

#9

The case seemed to have reached a brick wall, but then information came from an unexpected source. On October 7, Detective Jerry Monroe took a phone call from Constable Keith Johnson of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Johnson said his department had a man in custody who had been talking about murdering two girls near Wenatchee.

#10

The detectives suspected that Stolle was probably confabulating, taking things that were true and mixing them up with some other time in his life or in his imagination. They needed to get him back into