"KLICKITAT COUNTY: Police find knife, seek van in triple stabbing
Sun | Local
The Associated Press — Jan 2nd, 1999
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"KLICKITAT - This county's new sheriff says he has good leads but no suspects in the New Year's Eve stabbing deaths of two men and a pregnant woman.
Klickitat County Sheriff-elect Bob Kindler said the case is being investigated as a triple homicide. He offered no possible motive.
Kindler said investigators were searching for a silver van with Oregon license plates. The sheriff added investigators don't know whether they're looking for one killer or more.
"There's no way for me to try to guess how many people were involved," he said Friday.
He also said he hoped autopsies would help his officers determine whether a knife recovered a few blocks from the homicide scene was the murder weapon.
Investigators, including a team from the Washington state crime lab, gathered evidence Friday at an upstairs apartment in the Teacher's Alley apartment building. Two victims were found in the apartment.
Dispatchers received a call shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday saying that someone had been injured in Klickitat. Deputies found the body of the first man, clad in boxer shorts, on the front steps of a vacant house. A trail of blood led to the apartment about a block away, where officers found the bodies of another man and the woman. They also found a crying 1-year-old girl locked inside.
"We are not sure exactly what happened," said Klickitat County Deputy Prosecutor Gwendolyn Grundei, who also is the county's deputy coroner.
Grundei said the killings were estimated to have occurred between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Grundei did not release the victims' names.
The building's owner, Basil Bartholomew, said he was called by deputies and asked to open the apartment.
"I didn't have a key, so they wound up kicking the door in," Bartholomew said.
"The saddest part is they killed this 1-year-old's mother right in front of her.
They brought the little girl down for me to watch for a minute," he said. "She was so much in shock she wouldn't even squeeze my finger. I put my finger out and she wouldn't even grip it."
Nathan Steindorf, a volunteer firefighter who lives in the apartment building, said shortly after 2 a.m. he heard screaming and then heard a person running down the stairs, followed 30 seconds later by the sound of another person running down the stairs.
Steindorf was one of the first firefighters on the street where the dead man was found.
"There was blood all over the place," he said. "It was a big old mess."
Bartholomew said the woman had lived in Parkdale, Ore., and White Salmon before moving to Klickitat. He said she had rented the apartment for the past two months.
"After she moved in, boyfriends started coming to the place," he said.
The boyfriends brought problems with them, Bartholomew said. A November weekend party thrown by the men while the woman was away was so loud that Bartholomew served her with eviction papers on the following Monday.
"She came to me and begged to stay another month," he said.
"That month was up today.
I guess she won't have to worry about it."
Klickitat County deputies were joined by Goldendale police, Washington State Patrol troopers and Skamania County deputies as the investigation continued.
Klickitat is a south-central Washington farming community of about 600 people. It's located about 13 miles north of the Columbia River.
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"Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West (October 6, 1924 – January 2, 1999) was an American psychiatrist whose work focused particularly on cases where subjects were "taken to the limits of human experience".
He performed a highly controversial psychiatric evaluation of Jack Ruby, and he was in charge of UCLA's department of psychiatry and the Neuropsychiatric Institute for 20 years.
West was deeply involved in Korean War-era CIA brainwashing experiments, the Agency's notorious[1] MK-Ultra mind-control program, and the use and intentional abuse of LSD (as it being administered to unwitting people, who then suffered traumatic hallucinations) – even at one point killing an elephant with it.
West was also active in studying the creation and management of cults, and anti-death penalty activism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West
"In the 1950s, West, then an Air Force doctor at Lackland Air Force Base,[5] was appointed to a panel to discover why 36 of 59 airmen captured in the Korean War had confessed or co-operated in Korean allegations of war crimes committed by the United States.
Amid speculation that the airmen had been brainwashed or drugged, West came to a simpler conclusion: "What we found enabled us to rule out drugs, hypnosis or other mysterious trickery," he said. "
It was just one device used to confuse, bewilder and torment our men until they were ready to confess to anything.
That device was prolonged, chronic loss of sleep."
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