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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.
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