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September 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm #639268
BonnieParticipantDid Gary Ridgeway have ties to West Seattle? I didn’t realize that. I used to work with him at Kenworth. Kind of freaky that we were in the same building or waiting in line at the cafeteria and he could have been right next to me.
September 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm #639269
mellaw6565MemberJenV – there’s a great expose about the ship captain on A&E’s Investigative Reports show. I had no idea about any of it until I watched. Really twisted story.
September 17, 2008 at 6:35 pm #639270
rs261MemberGary Ridgway lived with his second wife in west seattle
http://www.metrokc.gov/kcsc/docs/Ridg_Summary.pdf is some of the court documents. Feel free to search for west seattle. I dont know if he picked up any victims or dumped them here though…depends on what part of the green river is considered west seattle, if any, and where he got his victims from.
September 17, 2008 at 7:05 pm #639271
WSratsinacageMemberWow Bonnie, that is amazing! I read Ann Rule’s book and Dave Reichert’s too, a couple of years ago.
JenV, have you read Ann Rule’s story about Neslund? It’s pretty good.
September 17, 2008 at 7:32 pm #639272
marianneParticipantStacey Sparks, a girl that I had gone to Madison and WSHS with, went missing in the early 80’s when the green river killings were occuring. Flyers were up everywhere about her disappearance. She was last seen at the Raintree over in Bellevue and just vanished. Years and years passed. When road crews began work on the I-90 bridge to remove the “bulge” from the floating bridge, Stacey’s remains were found in her car at the bottom of Lake Washington. Apparently, while driving back to West Seattle from Bellevue late at night, her car hit the “bulge”, flipped and went over the side. No other cars were around to see it happpen.
September 17, 2008 at 7:35 pm #639273
WSratsinacageMemberI read her (Stacey Sparks) story in one of Ann’s books too. Very tragic.
September 17, 2008 at 9:55 pm #639274
WSratsinacageMembermellaw6565, any more info on the music teacher?
September 17, 2008 at 10:17 pm #639275
MrJTMemberWSrats/mellaw – If I remember correctly, the music teacher was killed by friends of his wife/girlfriends kids. They were caught soon after down on 1st Avenue in the SODO. Didn’t hear much about it after that.
September 17, 2008 at 10:24 pm #639276
WSratsinacageMemberWhat year did this happen?
September 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm #639277
MrJTMemberWSRats, It was probably 1999-2000.
September 17, 2008 at 11:21 pm #639278
CaitParticipantI think the thing with the music teacher happened sometime after 2000, but shortly after. Pretty brutal, it still creeps me out to walk past that house. Not a good neighborhood for music teachers – at least two of them have died strangely in that neighborhood since I’ve lived there.
September 17, 2008 at 11:23 pm #639279
CaitParticipantBTW – any ideas about the Rite Aide haunting and the Herfy’s parking lot thing being connected? They’re fairly close to one another…
September 17, 2008 at 11:57 pm #639280
MrJTMemberCait, you may be right, I remember it was shortly after I moved into the neighborhood. The nicest family lives in that house now. I always wonder if they know they history of the house.
September 18, 2008 at 12:16 am #639281
WSratsinacageMemberCould you give me a general idea of where the house is? I live in this area. Thanks.
September 18, 2008 at 12:33 am #639282
CaitParticipantIt’s on Charlestown about a half block east of the water tower.
September 18, 2008 at 12:40 am #639283
MrJTMemberWSrats, e-mail me mrjt2226@gmail.com
September 18, 2008 at 3:06 am #639284
pamMemberI loved Stacey (spacey stacey) – she was the sweetest girl. We all thought Bundy or someone similar may have gotten her with such a sudden disappearance. So sad…. There was a young girl killed in Schmitz Park, may have been one of the girls mentioned above from Madison.
I think it might be better to focus on more positive hocus pocus haunted houses then such sad stories about young lives being taken…. imho
September 18, 2008 at 3:51 am #639285
GinaParticipantStacey Sparks was indeed one of the nicest people–from Lafayette on through West Seattle High.
September 18, 2008 at 3:53 am #639286
OlMomParticipantI worked at US Bank when it was on Calf and Alaska (now Super Supplements) and I was told it used to be the West Seattle hospital. The upper floor had a weird vibe.
September 18, 2008 at 4:38 am #639287
MagpieParticipantI’m trying to remember some of the names here..Penny Haddenham was the girl from Madison walking home from the fabric store. Her body wasn’t found for some time. There was also a girl who had gone to Sealth (Vonnie Stuth nee Van Driel) who was murdered by a guy who had escaped from Western State. George Jugum was the guy who stomped the teenager to death at Herfy’s (his dad was a big wig in the longshore union and he was kind of a known thug at WSH). He did his time, though.
There is a condo at the corner of Yancy and Avalon that was an empty lot when they found the one girl who I can’t remember her name. I remember walking home past there before Genesee was a through street to see the crime tape. I’ve never read Ann Rule, but have a good memory and either knew or had some connection to many of these folks. Denise Naslund of course had gone to Sealth also and would have been in the same class as Vonnie. The early/mid 70’s had some crazy things happening to West Seattle.
September 18, 2008 at 4:47 am #639288
GinaParticipantChecking in West Side Story for all the locations of hospitals in West Seattle. Pages 244-251
1912: 4530 42nd Ave SW
1916: 1924 California Ave SW
1911: NW corner of California and Morgan
1927: hospital was moved to the back of the lot on the NW corner of California and Morgan
1929: 6506 Fauntleroy Ave
Laurel Beach Sanatorium: 10203 47th Ave SW
Shadel Hospital: 7106 35th Ave SW
1938: 2nd floor of People’s Bank, SE corner of California and Alaska. West Seattle General Hospital moved out of the building in November of 1961.
The J.F. Henry building housed an undertaker at one time.
At one time there may have been more morgues in West Seattle than nail salons in modern times!
September 18, 2008 at 2:40 pm #639289
WSratsinacageMemberI hope I am not causing anyone any pain by contributing. Thank you for your stories, please keep them coming. I appreciate all the history of WS, good and bad.
September 19, 2008 at 6:44 pm #639290
scooby-snaxMemberjerald- that stomping at herfy’s was commited by george juggum(sp?) don’t know the stomp-ee.far as i know george is still in prison.
September 19, 2008 at 6:52 pm #639291
JenVMemberI remember when Herfy’s in the Admiral was the place to buy…um….certain illegal substances out the back door… :)
September 19, 2008 at 9:00 pm #639292
JanSParticipantscooby…ya gotta read all the comments…this link about George Jugum was in #21
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