
Colby Avenue in Everett, Washington, 1930s. From http://www.pstos.org.
Yesterday the Everett Herald published a story titled “The secret of the Halloween murder: For 75 years, a murder victim’s daughter didn’t know who shattered her family.”
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20101031/NEWS01/708269848/1122
Eric Stevick has written a fantastic piece detailing the 1934 murder of an Everett, Washington bakery owner by a cold, calculating criminal. William Buehrig was shot dead by Henry Young– as Stevick points out, a very different Henry Young than the one that appeared in the 1995 “biopic” Murder in the First. (more…)