Insane Killer On The Loose In Spokane,Wa
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I am so buzzed right now, I can't even read all of this shit right now. I can't even function right on my own Seahawks board right now. I'll have to read all of this shit tomarrow or something. But from what the titles reads, sounds like a pretty good article....I'll get back on this when I'm sober 100% LOL
^props for prop'n me LOL
but i've said so much stupid shit while drunk on here, it's not even funny. but i trust everyone on here can tell when im drunk or sober. I make more sense when im sober than drunk LOL well i hope so at least.
Sometimes I dont even want to read anything I've posted the night before, I fear I might have made an ass of my self, so I just avoide the thread and move on LOL
but i've said so much stupid shit while drunk on here, it's not even funny. but i trust everyone on here can tell when im drunk or sober. I make more sense when im sober than drunk LOL well i hope so at least.
Sometimes I dont even want to read anything I've posted the night before, I fear I might have made an ass of my self, so I just avoide the thread and move on LOL
SEATTLE – An insane killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution on a field trip Thursday to the Spokane County Interstate Fair was recaptured Sunday without injury more than 180 miles away in south-central Washington state.
With a helicopter overhead and dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officers swarming around Goldendale, Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, seemed ready to surrender when he walked out to the Goldendale-Bickleton road about 22 miles east of town shortly after 4 p.m., just as search personnel arrived at the scene, Klickitat County Sheriff Rick McComas told The Associated Press.
"He came out of the brush, onto the roadway, as law enforcement officers were going by," McComas said. "His intent was to voluntarily give himself up because he knew we were going to find him."
But Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie D. Knezovich said Paul had just tried to thumb a ride from an area resident who alerted authorities. Knezovich said the fugitive seemed to be trying to remain on the loose.
Still, he said, Paul was arrested without incident: "As far as I know, he was cooperative."
Based on information from a confidential informant, investigators believe Paul hitched a ride from Spokane to the Goldendale area, Knezovich said. The focus of the search shifted Sunday when authorities learned precisely where he got out of the car, he said. He wouldn't comment further on the ride or why Paul wound up in Klickitat County.
Knezovich said one of those involved in the arrest, Spokane County sheriff's Detective Roger W. Knight, also nabbed Paul after he gave Eastern State Hospital personnel the slip in 1991 during a field trip in Medical Lake, where the mental institution is located.
Following that arrest, Paul knocked Knight unconscious in the jail booking area, separating his shoulder, and was convicted of first-degree escape and second-degree assault.
Paul was committed after he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and acquitted by reason of insanity in the slaying of an elderly woman in Sunnyside in 1987. He soaked her body in gasoline to throw off search dogs.
McComas said Paul would be taken to Yakima following a brief checkup by medics in Goldendale. He is expected to appear in Yakima County Superior Court on a warrant stemming from the initial murder case before being returned to Eastern State.
"This has been one of the largest manhunts in this region for many years," Knezovich said. "A great deal of teamwork went into the capture of Mr. Paul."
Knezovich said he met with Spokane-area residents Saturday to hear their concerns about the case.
"There was a lot of fear in the community, people locking their windows," he said. "I want people in Spokane County to know that tonight they can sleep in peace.
Susan N. Dreyfus, secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, issued a statement praising those involved in the recapture.
"We are committed to finding out how and why this happened, why there was an unacceptable (two-hour) delay in notifying local law enforcement of his escape, and how potentially dangerous patients were brought to such a public venue with the reported staffing ratios," Dreyfus added
With a helicopter overhead and dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officers swarming around Goldendale, Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, seemed ready to surrender when he walked out to the Goldendale-Bickleton road about 22 miles east of town shortly after 4 p.m., just as search personnel arrived at the scene, Klickitat County Sheriff Rick McComas told The Associated Press.
"He came out of the brush, onto the roadway, as law enforcement officers were going by," McComas said. "His intent was to voluntarily give himself up because he knew we were going to find him."
But Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie D. Knezovich said Paul had just tried to thumb a ride from an area resident who alerted authorities. Knezovich said the fugitive seemed to be trying to remain on the loose.
Still, he said, Paul was arrested without incident: "As far as I know, he was cooperative."
Based on information from a confidential informant, investigators believe Paul hitched a ride from Spokane to the Goldendale area, Knezovich said. The focus of the search shifted Sunday when authorities learned precisely where he got out of the car, he said. He wouldn't comment further on the ride or why Paul wound up in Klickitat County.
Knezovich said one of those involved in the arrest, Spokane County sheriff's Detective Roger W. Knight, also nabbed Paul after he gave Eastern State Hospital personnel the slip in 1991 during a field trip in Medical Lake, where the mental institution is located.
Following that arrest, Paul knocked Knight unconscious in the jail booking area, separating his shoulder, and was convicted of first-degree escape and second-degree assault.
Paul was committed after he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and acquitted by reason of insanity in the slaying of an elderly woman in Sunnyside in 1987. He soaked her body in gasoline to throw off search dogs.
McComas said Paul would be taken to Yakima following a brief checkup by medics in Goldendale. He is expected to appear in Yakima County Superior Court on a warrant stemming from the initial murder case before being returned to Eastern State.
"This has been one of the largest manhunts in this region for many years," Knezovich said. "A great deal of teamwork went into the capture of Mr. Paul."
Knezovich said he met with Spokane-area residents Saturday to hear their concerns about the case.
"There was a lot of fear in the community, people locking their windows," he said. "I want people in Spokane County to know that tonight they can sleep in peace.
Susan N. Dreyfus, secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, issued a statement praising those involved in the recapture.
"We are committed to finding out how and why this happened, why there was an unacceptable (two-hour) delay in notifying local law enforcement of his escape, and how potentially dangerous patients were brought to such a public venue with the reported staffing ratios," Dreyfus added
