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God Erased Killer's Memory

By David Lohr

It was about 7 p.m. on Monday, December 31, 2007 when Shannon Harps, 31, a Sierra Club organizer, left her newly-purchased condominium on East Howell Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill area to do some last-minute shopping for a New Year's Eve dinner she was planning to have with friends.  She had sent an e-mail to a relative in Ohio that partially explained her plans for the evening, the last time that anyone would hear from her.  About 30 minutes later, only moments before she approached the entrance to the building where she lived on the return trip from a nearby grocery store, neighbors heard her screams and shrieks.  When they came to her aid they could see that she had been stabbed, and witnesses saw a man fleeing the scene after hearing him shouting, "Die, die, die...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).