The Bremerton Party Massacre
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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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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