The Smiling Confession: How Alyssa Bradburn Planned Her Father's Death
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Joe
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In June 2024, 68-year-old Timothy Bradburn flew home from Hawaii to fix a leaking roof at his Spokane, Washington house. He walked through the front door holding his suitcase and his keys, and he never set them down.
His daughter Alyssa had been planning this for three weeks. She practiced at a gun range. She wrote a journal detailing exactly what she intended to do and left it on the table for police to find. She told her father she was sick so he would walk in worried about her. She put on safety glasses and earplugs. And then she waited.
What followed was one of the most psychologically layered parricide cases in recent Pacific Northwest history: a story of a family that gave everything to a daughter who stayed, repressed memories that may or may not have been real, and a woman who smiled through her own murder trial and said she enjoyed the experience.T
his is the Alyssa Bradburn case. And the detail that reframes everything is what her father told her brother before he ever came home.
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| 0:00.0 | Timothy Bradburn flew home from Hawaii to fix a leaking roof. |
| 0:08.0 | His daughter told him that she was sick, so he'd have to walk through the door worried about her. |
| 0:13.0 | She'd already been to the gun range. She'd already written the journal. |
| 0:18.0 | She left it on the table for the police. |
| 0:20.0 | And when officers arrived, she was sitting |
| 0:22.5 | on the porch waiting for them. |
| 0:32.9 | Most people coming home from a long trip spend the flight thinking about their own bed, |
| 0:38.2 | getting back to their own kitchen and whatever small comfort that they'd been missing. |
| 0:42.6 | Timothy Bradburn was 68 years old, flying back to Spokane, Washington from his condo in Hawaii. |
| 0:49.5 | And based on everything we know about him, he was probably thinking about a leaking roof. |
| 0:54.1 | That's who Timothy was, a man with practical concerns and a grief that he'd worked hard to move |
| 0:59.8 | through. When his wife, Garland, died from lung cancer in 2019, he didn't fold. He got on a plane |
| 1:05.9 | and built something resembling a new life in Hawaii. He found people to talk to, people who, in his daughter, |
| 1:12.6 | Alyssa's own words, weren't as broken. He came back to Spokane in June of 24 because the house |
| 1:19.2 | on North Cochran Street needed maintenance, and that was the sort of thing Timothy showed up for. |
| 1:25.0 | He walked through his front door with his suitcase in one hand and his |
| 1:28.4 | keys in the other. He never set them down. To understand what happened in that entryway, |
| 1:34.4 | you need to know who the Bradburns were first. Timothy and Garland raised two kids in that |
| 1:39.7 | house on North Cochran Street in northwest Spokane. Trace, the older one, left for college in Idaho, and built a life there. |
| 1:48.1 | Alyssa, born in 1992, stayed. |
| 1:51.2 | That detail, the staying, is going to matter more than it sounds like it should. |
| 1:56.0 | As the kids grew up and Timothy and Garland started traveling more, |
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