Murder in Pullman

The day started off with me going to the command post to report for duty. The plan was to look at the scene and photo it. Then come back after the crime lab is done doing their initial stuff and then go back and do what we had to do. Then the crime lab with finish up what they had to do.

That changed as the day went on. The place where these murders took place was the same place where a lady was murdered nine years ago. That also happened to be the last murder in Pullman.

We waited around for nearly an hour and a half before getting inside. It was getting cold, finally they let us in. We went around the house and looked at items and then finally to the room where the bodies were. It was not as bad as the suicide was from the other day that I looked at. It was not nearly as bad. In fact, I think that really prepared me for violent things like this.

After doing some initial crime scene photos we went to the living room and talked with and got more information from the police for the next few hours. We were getting hungry so we went to get some lunch. We were in our coroners office stuff so we got some looks for sure. I told Pete it was because they were so impressed with our new clothing items.

We got back to the scene and the crime scene investigators left for lunch. We stayed and got some more information. They came back and it was time for us to do our thing. We went back and examined the bodies and photoed the scene some more. Then we called the funeral home for removal. There had been media all day long outside the apartment. They had been snapping photos and gathering video. They also taped us removing the bodies.

We left the scene and went to the funeral home to do our final examination and make plans for autopsies. Once the plan was set into action I left to go home. I was still planning on heading back to Seattle today. Patti also went home.

On my way to Colfax I heard the Colfax EMT’s get called to a possible unattended death. So I knew we were going to get called to that. Patti and I met up at the scene. It was a guy who went to bed and did not wake up. It was a pretty straight forward case. We were only there for about forty minutes investigating the scene and then after the funeral home removed the body Patti went there to further examine the body. I went home and watched my Sunday night TV shows. I decided to not head back to Seattle tonight. I was really tired from working and staying up so many hours this weekend.

I decided to go to bed around nine because Family Guy was a rerun.