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PNW Haunts and Homicides: Richard Gilmore · To All the Men I've Tolerated Before

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Hey everyone, it's Natalie and I just wanted to jump on to give some
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context to what today's episode is. It is, in fact an episode that
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is from a different podcast, p NW Hanson Homicides is where hosts Caitlin and
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Cassie chat about true crime and the paranormal and a bunch of other spooky shit
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that happens in the Pacific Northwest. It's a great podcast. You know.
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I love spooky, wooky, wooky stuff and I can't get enough of Halloween
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and ghosts and scary movies. So if that's your vibe, the show is
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Misogynist of the Year Award. I'll see you later. Have a great day
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and go check out PNW Haunts and Homicides. Hi Cassie, Hi, Caitlin,
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Hi creepy people. Hi, this is pan W Hants and Homicides.
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It is Yeah, yeah, confirmed, Yeah, can confirm, can confirm.
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This case is definitely going to repay you for sapporo. Oh. Thanks,
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You're so welcome. I've been working on it for a while. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's almost like I knew that I would need to really bring
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it. You knew I was gonna pull something scary out of my ass.
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Uh huh? Okay, I think I pulled something scarier out of my ass.
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Oh, Unfortunately I pulled this from somewhere other than my ass. And
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yeah, I think you'll be not super happy with where I pulled it from.
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Okay, Well, I mean at least it wasn't out of your ass,
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I guess. Yeah. No, I'm comfortable with this coming from elsewhere.
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Okay, do you like the Gilmore girls? Yes? Do you even
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know me? Ken? All right? I just had to ask you before
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we before you bash them? Is that what you're trying to say? No,
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you'll see. Are you gonna ruin? Are you gonna ruin? Are
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you gonna ruin Gilmore Girls for me? I don't know. We'll see,
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Kiley, I officially found the crime that, according to my notes, could
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ruin the Gilmore Girls for even the most diehard of fans. I hate you,
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I know, Please don't unsubscribe. I'm obviously angry too. And trust
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me when I say the name is just the tip of the iceberg, not
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in terms of the Gilmore Girls per se, but I mean you'll see.
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Can we go back to the Titanic references that made me more comfortable? I
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don't think I have any for this one. Well, you just said the
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tip of the iceberg? Oh yeah, that's yeah, iceberg right ahead?
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Oh we are charging forward? Okay, all right, let's go hit me?
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Fuck up? I mean, okay, if you haven't heard the news
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yet, I regret to inform you that a dangerous serial rapist is about to
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be released in Moltnomah County. I don't like it. I didn't think you
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would. Well't. No, My county is right on the edge of basically
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the counties where Cassie and I both reside. Yeah, as well as a
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lot of other people. But you know, selfishly, it's our our own
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self interest is Portland? Well, no, my county. Yeah, I
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was just making sure I was. Yeah, you're like, am I?
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Portland is what I was getting at. Yeah, yeah, the big city.
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So that kind of informs why you guys, I'm mm hmmm shaking with
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rage and maybe a little bit of fear, because the truth is, this
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man is a clear and present danger right in our neck of the woods.
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And no, I am not kidding.'tis not April. No, No,
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she don't fuck around the only thing that I can say here to lighten
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the mood is that, if it makes anyone feel better, this man spells
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Richard Gilmour differently. Okay, Now, for those of you that aren't fans
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of the show Gilmour Girls, because I guess there could be some of you,
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but also that didn't immediately tune out. Richard Gilmore is the beloved grandfatherly
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figure in the classic mother daughter throwback from this elder millennial's youth rip. Also,
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how are things under that rock? Is it nice under there? Patrick?
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That's a SpongeBob reference, I know. Well be warned though. That's
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almost certainly the last laugh. Okay, certainly the last laugh. If you
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got a hearty laugh out of that, Okay, you better have Yeah.
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In all seriousness, we try not to overdo it with you know, trigger
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warnings, because we think most of you know that true crime can be a
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rather gnarly genre. However, I also know what absorbing this type of content
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did to me throughout the course of my research, and I think if you
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feel safe enough to listen to content about sexual assault right now, it's a
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very important story. But for those of you that might be getting ready to
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go back to a spooky episode to pass the time instead, I think it's
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really important for you to be aware that this does pertain to a dangerous criminal
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that will be rejoining the public in the Portland metro area before the end of
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the year. Oh, I just got chills, Like it just got freezing
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in here. It's really funny because that's I know this, and it's still
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giving me the chills. And then you said it and I was like,
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that's real. Apparently it is real. So I'm not happy about it.
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I think it goes without saying I'm not even sure his mother seems thrilled.
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In all honesty, I would hope not. I mean, I'm not gonna
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talk bad about people's mothers. So all right, we're going to get into
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it now though, because I think we've done our due diligence and all of
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the PSAs, So tune in, tune out. You know, that's everybody's
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decision based on what they feel like they can kind of tackle this week.
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Maybe at least check out the show description so you know who we're talking about.
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Yeah, I do think, just from the aspect of public safety,
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if nothing else, people just need to know about this. So and I'll
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try to include as many of the links that I think will be informative without
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necessarily being quite as triggering. Okay, and the pace bin will have I
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think it. I think I'm up to about just shy of maybe fifty different
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resources. Geez. Yeah, wow, she went all out. Oh,
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I went real wild on all of the resources. So okay. Richard Gilmour
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was born November eighth of nineteen fifty nine. We're about a just a little
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over a week away from his birthday right now. Yeah, sort of seems
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like his date of birth has been all but redacted from the Internet, and
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I thought that seemed odd since you could probably look up first and last names,
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along with tons of personal information about his victims. Hm, but not
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about him. I had to look through several copies of different official public record
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documents regarding his parole hearings, his trials before I could find one that didn't
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redact his birthdate. I wonder, why do they say because they really wanted
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to anger me, let's piss off Caitlin today redacted. Yeah, there is
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sort of a brief explanation because, as per usual, when it comes to
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the kind of some of the reasoning behind some of those things, when it
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comes to law enforcement, a lot of times Chris is able to give me
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a little bit of insight there. I still thought it was stupid, so
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I didn't include it. So it was important to me. I really wanted
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to share it with you, guys. It's very important to include his date
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of birth in this story. I'm glad that you found it. Yeah,
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me too. There will be links to both. I believe I have a
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copy of a redacted version and an unredacted version of some of the court documents
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that I found. So, okay, have fun with that, kids,
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I'm not reading them. You've done the hard part for me. Yeah,
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I wow. Yeah. Richard Troy Gilmore's Clever Criminal alias coined by the media
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coverage was the jogger rapist. That's unpleasant, deeply. Okay. Was he
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the jogger or he was the jog and actually this is a very important aspect
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of his m O. Okay, so he wasn't attacking joggers, which is
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kind of common, right, exactly, that's exactly what you would think of,
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right, Yes, I'm so glad that you said that. Yeah,
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I passed the literal next sentence, and I took a huge sigh of relief
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because all I have to do is not take up jogging. Right. Wrong,
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my next sentence. Wrong, You cannot make this. I can read
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her mind to everybody. It's so much more insidious than that. Unfortunately.
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Oh okay, I mean you did kind of warn everybody. Yeah, you
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see, Richard, I'm guessing was something of an avid jogger, at least
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based on our victim count. Okay, he didn't attack women that were out
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on their regular jogging route. He found victims while he was jogging, and
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they were doing any number of things that don't necessarily lead to a heightened state
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of awareness or alertness. Just being a person out in the world, just
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people and around m Richard or Dick as I more often refer to him is
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a tough not to crack. It's a bit more difficult to find information outside
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of the latest news related to his parole hearings and his upcoming release. But
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don't worry, we'll get there. But as is true in most of these
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cases, he stated that he was abused by his father as a child,
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which, if true, it sounds like it was pretty horrific. He has
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reportedly described being beaten with an electrical chord. Oh ouch, yeah, and
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that's prior to his father eventually abandoning the family. Okay, so if it's
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true, not a great start in life. No, I didn't come across
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much that would help me to substantiate those details of his earlier life. Got
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a few things out there floating in the world, So I may come back
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with an update. We'll see, yay, Come on, foy. There's
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another detail about Richard Gilmore I couldn't initially substantiate as well. Apparently he wanted
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to become a cop weird and as you might have guessed, it was far
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to select facious a thread to just drop it. So I dug in deep
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and we're going to come back to that. Okay. The first victim that
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we'll talk about is referred to as Mallory in the limited source material regarding her
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assault because she never shared her real name and story publicly. Okay, On
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January eighth of nineteen seventy nine, she was a twenty two year old woman
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simply going about her evening cooking dinner in her Moltnoma County home when she saw
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someone in the apartment hallway. At first glance, she thought it must have
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been her roommate, but unfortunately, her evening was about to take a dark
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turn as the realization that this was not her roommate settled in. The intruder
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beat her pretty badly before being her, leaving her with two black eyes and
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a broken nose from the attack. Jesus, it's funny that choice of words,
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she recalled. The fact that she recited the Lord's prayer angered her assailant.
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Oh my god, No, I know. I just was like,
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not that we don't ever say it, but the fact that Jesus was your
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yeah, oh my gosh. Still, she was determined to survive because her
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brother had passed away the previous year from drowning. This was also why she
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said she kept the information regarding the assault, even from her mother who was
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really struggling emotionally still from his passing. Oh my god, I can't even
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imagine, because of course this had to be a multi layered tragedy. And
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you, guys, I'm so sorry, because I needed to talk about this
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case and make sure that literally everyone everywhere in the world that listens to us
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would know that this is happening. But obviously there's more. I spoke to
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a woman named Danielle Tudor. During the time that I spent chatting with her,
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I came to know her as an incredibly kind, intelligent, motivated and
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compassionate woman. She was attacked on November eleventh of nineteen seventy nine. She
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is believed to be the third victim in a series of rapes, many of
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which happened in the neighborhood area around her home. At the time when she
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spoke to the police following her assault, another nearby woman had been attacked already
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just over a month later, on the day after Christmas in nineteen seventy nine.
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There was no way that anyone could have known that Gilmore had already made
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a mistake roughly a year prior that would play a significant role in him eventually
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losing his freedom. Oh nah, We don't have a lot of information about
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a number of details in that specific case, but what we do have is
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one very important piece of the puzzle, no doubt. In nineteen seventy eight,
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an unnamed woman was assaulted in the neighborhood where both Danielle and the woman
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who were referring to as Mallory lived. It wouldn't be long before it would
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become apparent that it was likely the start of a series of brutal crimes against
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the young women in and around the Portland metro area. Okay, it's just
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so close to home. Yeah. Danielle Tutor, who is now an advocate
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for victims of sexual assault as well as for better legislation around those crimes,
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was just seventeen years old when Gilmore attacked her in her Southeast Portland home seventeen.
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She was also the only victim to see Gilmore's face well enough to describe
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it in any detail. Wow. With her recollections of his appearance, law
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enforcement was able to have an artist produce a composite sketch that helped lead to
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his arrest in nineteen eighty six. That's awesome. That's a lot of responsibility
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for a seventeen year old though, My god, Yeah, by that time,
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Gilmore had sexually assaulted eight other women in the late nineteen seventies and early
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nineteen eighties. That's what police would later learn. When we spoke back in
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October, she shared a terrifying memory from the days following her attack. Oh.
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She worked at fred Meyer through the holidays. Her father worked at fred
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Meyer at the time, a fact that likely helped to put both of their
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minds at ease to some degree in the difficult days immediately after her sexual assault.
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But the relief quickly faded when none other than Richard Gilmour himself came through
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her checkout line. No, she described knowing immediately at the sight and the
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smell of him, Oh, that he was the man that had attacked her.
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She felt completely frozen. She knew it was him, she said.
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At the time, she tried to act as if she had no idea who
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he was, just to get him out of the store. And I'll reveal
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some insight that Danielle shared about Richard Gilmour that might paint this encounter with a
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very dark brush. After we go through some additional facts of the case.
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Okay, that sounds so fucking scary. Yeah, and the smell you don't
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forget, you know, yeah. Never. This next section focuses on Alisa
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Warner, who had since moved to Anchorage at the time that her story was
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told by The Oregonian. She was raped on March second of nineteen eighty in
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the backyard of her boyfriend's Southeast Portland home. Oh my god. On that
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night back in nineteen eighty, she was a sixteen year old Gresham Union High
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School student. Wow. While at a female friend's house, the two had
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been listening to music and drinking beer. Pretty typical night for a lot of
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teenagers. Yeah. That night, she argued with her boyfriend before he stormed
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off. Around three am, she walked to his house, hoping to wake
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him by banging on the bedroom window. Nothing good happens after midnight kids.
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When she didn't have any luck waking him, she sat in the front yard
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because, as she put it, I thought I'd better not walk home because
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I could get raped. Oh my god, that thought was literally in her
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head. I just luck, fate or just unfortunate circumstances, whatever it was,
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was about to fail her a second time. That night. As a
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hand clamped over her mouth, she started to turn and was immediately met with
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a punch. The man said, scream, and I'll kill you. When
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she tried to stand, he pushed her down, holding her hands behind her
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back. And this is wearing when they just let you guys know it.
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I'm going to try really hard to give you as many of the facts of
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the case without going out of our way to be too graphic, but there
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is going to be a description of sexual assault. Okay, I'll be rubbing
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my crystal. As he began forcing her into the backyard and lifting up her
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shirt, covering her face with it as he did, she decided it was
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best not to challenge him. She thought back to a class at school and
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what she had learned about stranger rape, because women have to think about these
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things, and it's clear that so many of these women and girls had very
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distinct thoughts about what they would or wouldn't do, or how something like this
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would affect them, and it just is so heartbreaking, it's crazy. And
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then you talk to a man and they're like, they've never had those thoughts,
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you know. I Mean, I'm sure some men do, but the
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majority of them don't have to think about that. Yeah, it's her Initial
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attempts to play along were unsuccessful. She began yelling for help, but no
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one heard her and no one was coming. That horrific realization settled in as
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he forcibly removed all of her clothes except her shirt before raping her. She
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tried to stand after he was finished, but he hit her in the face
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and kicked her in the stomach. God, before threatening to cut off one
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of her breasts as a souvenir. Oh my god, like that one guy,
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Jerry Brutos. I think fucking Jerry. Fucking Jerry. Oh. He
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instructed her to count to one hundred and then took off. After the attack,
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she sat crying before gathering herself enough to cover herself up with her t
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shirt. Then she began pounding on the window again. It was her boyfriend's
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mother that finally woke up to find her in that horrific state. How is
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anyone sleeping that heavily? Did they have age boys? And I mean yeah,
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does he have a sound machine and airplugs in an he's storing? I
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don't know, Wow, I don't know. It's just that kind of blew
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my mind because she's pounding on the window. Yeah, I hope it wasn't
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purposefully ignoring her, you know, not that I'm like accusing him of that.
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No, but you know, if you get in a fight, Yeah,
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and you don't realize how something like that could really result in obviously something
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far more harmful than he intended. Even if he was ignoring her like he
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couldn't have known no exactly. The woman brought her inside, providing her with
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a blanket and some clothes. Though the woman wanted to call the police,
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Warner refused. Looking back on that night, she'd said, I was scared.
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I was outside after curfew. Oh, so she thought she'd get in
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trouble yep, I mean just classic, you know, the victim blames themselves
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too often. Yeah. Eventually, when the woman returned her to her friend's
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home, they called the rape crisis hotline. Police were also notified, and
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to her dismay, they of course told her that she needed to call her
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mother. Hm. She remembered that call where she cried to her mother.
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As she explained, her mother and I'm going to try to say this delicately,
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her good for nothing piece of ship boyfriend arrived to pick her up at
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the hospital. Oh would you look at that? I guess I wasn't feeling
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that delicate. After all, this is the boyfriend that wouldn't wake up.
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Yep. Okay, yeah, but we're all about to find out why.
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Okay. I was just gonna ask. Yeah, nothing up to this point
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was his fault. Okay. He yelled at her all the way home what
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Alisa said? Sure enough, he laid into me, telling me it was
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all my fault, that I was a tease and had asked for it.
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Can I find it? This guy, I'm gonna cut his fucking dick off.
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I don't even care allegedly allegedly listen, in this instance, there may
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be a more important dick at the head of the line. I want to
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take all the dicks off, I mean, well, the bad ones.
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Yeah, okay, Oh god, that makes me so mad. Just like
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in Mallory's case, a lot of tragedy had been lain at the feet of
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a struggling young woman. You see, Alisa had lost her father just three
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years prior, when he died by suicide after hanging himself. No, though
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I'm sure it wasn't easy, Alisa made it out alive. She finished high
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school, then went on to marry and have a daughter. At the time
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of her interview, she was married to her third husband. Even though she
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still has family in the state of Oregon, she rarely visits because of the
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attack all those years ago. I don't blame her, listen, Alaska is
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beautiful, but I never want something to happen to someone that's so ugly that
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they flee their home state, regardless of what state it is. And the
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next best thing is to move to Anchorage and never come back. Yeah,
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kind of seems fucked well, especially now that he's getting out, Like fuck.
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I mean, she'll never want to come back, is my projection.
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Nineteen eighty was a busy year for Gilmour, it seems, yes, though
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it wouldn't be until decades later that two other victims' names and stories would be
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revealed. There's Colleen Kelly, who was just thirteen years old in nineteen eighty
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when she was assaulted by Gilmore thirteen, he broke into her Southeast Portland home.
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He raped her in October of that year, on her mother's birthday.
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Oh come on, yeah. She would later become a very strong voice amongst
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many advocating for victims of sexual assault. So good for her. I love
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when holy fuck women take their pain and suffering and turn it into good. Yeah.