A horrific crime that occurred in late February at Trails End Lake in Mason County has a connection to Mud Bay. The story received extensive coverage in the Kitsap Sun and on Seattle TV stations. To summarize, a 46-year-old man beat a woman severely in her home with a chair and cane. Although she was bound with duct tape and bloody, she managed to escape and run to a neighbor’s house. The neighbors called 911 and sheltered the woman until sheriff’s deputies and medics arrived. Her injuries were serious enough to require an airlift to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The Kitsap Sun described the neighbors, the Goldbergs, as true heroes for opening their home to the woman so she could escape her attacker. The man returned to her home, where he died in a fire he set after a standoff with a sheriff’s SWAT team.
A friend who lives on Marine Drive told me how Mud Bay is linked to the story. A couple of young guys, welders, rent a waterfront cabin on Mud Bay. One of them is the son of the woman who was assaulted at Trails End Lake. The welders left Bremerton to take jobs in Alaska, where apparently they met the 46-year-old man. Upon his return from Alaska, uninvited, he started living in their cabin. Either through information he got in Alaska or records that were in the cabin, the man knew the mother’s address. Whatever his motive was in going to visit her, the end result was a horrible senseless crime.
It’s been a month since the attack. The Mud Bay Blog hopes the woman is recovering from her injuries and will someday be able to put the attack behind her.
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Not that I read anywhere.
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