The Bremerton Party Massacre

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Performing Arts, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Six Dead At Erland’s Point

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Episode 139 is the gruesome story of a home invasion, circa 1934, a case that seemed so random that it took over a year to crack one of the most brutal mass murders witnessed by the Pacific Northwest. The small-town police are at first presented as in over their heads, but they remained dogged in their pursuit, and justice will be served. Eventually.

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0:00.0	Popular.com
0:08.0	The Little White House near the Pacific Ocean, pretty, pretentious, shone in the morning light.
0:16.0	Through the week, it had been the scene of a hecticly gay party. Six persons had participated,
0:25.6	host, hostess, four guests. Now the house was blank, lifeless. The only sound on the premises
0:35.6	came from a locked limousine on the driveway.
0:40.1	There, three imprisoned fluffy French poodles barked and moaned.
0:46.8	Then out of the silent White House, a cat strode majestically.
0:52.8	The animal was sleek, fur smooth to prime feline neatness, but on the head were rusty, reddish-brown
1:03.0	stains of human blood.
1:07.3	This was the first intimation to the outside world that all wasn't well inside the little house.
1:14.6	The yelping of the poodles at last attracted the attention of Tom Sanders and Kay Erland,
1:22.6	neighbors of the fliders. Peering cautiously through a ground floor window, the pair were
1:31.3	galvanized with horror to see prone on the floor of the living room, the bodies of two
1:37.3	men. Rallying their startled senses, Erland and Sanders quickly notified the sheriff,
1:47.0	who, breaking into the house, found the six mutilated and battered body strewn through various rooms.
1:56.0	Action was prompt. Police, entering, found a scene of wild carnage.
2:03.6	The bodies of six persons bludgeoned, bound, slash, shot were strewn about in grotesque attitudes.
2:13.6	Mass murder had run riot.
2:23.9	Who then, it was asked, had wantonly slain, host, hostess, guests?
2:29.2	We may know one day, but not today.
2:31.8	Not tomorrow.
3:06.1	True Crime Historian presents an eye for an eye, a special edition of yesterday's news exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme, inflicting the death penalty. Episode 139 is the gruesome story of a home invasion,
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