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morning visit, Wesley discovered the 4000 block of Pacific Avenue transformed into a Saturday circus of aid cars, squad cars, fire trucks, ambulances, glaze-eyed witnesses, gawking neighbors, uniformed police officers, and plainclothes detectives.
    â€œWesley went out to get a haircut,” recalled his former wife of seventeen years, Margaret “Marty” Webb. “He was just going to stop by and see what was going on. By that, I mean he sort of wanted an update on Andrew’s latest ‘project’—another one of his proposed acts of retributive violence against someone he thought had ‘done him wrong.’ He always thought someone had done him wrong, ripping him off, stuff like that. Paul was sitting in the back of the cop car when Wesley showed up.” Noticing Andrew’s brother, Paul St. Pierre victoriously gave Wesley “the finger.” Wesley, however, insists Paul St. Pierre gave him “the high sign.” Detective Yerbury insisted that Paul St. Pierre, and everyone else, be hauled down to Central Station for questioning by Detective Mike Lynch.
    While Lynch attempted to penetrate the Valium and alcohol clouding Paul St. Pierre’s limited thought processes, Sergeant Parkhurst drafted a search warrant for presentation to Judge Stone. “The purpose of the warrant was to search for evidence, and for Paul St. Pierre’s forty-five,” recalled Yerbury. “We didn’t find the weapon, and the residence was released back into the care of Christopher St. Pierre, who was one of the fellows living there at the time.”
    Based on available information and evidence, the case didn’t look the least bit complicated. “Especially once we got Webb’s version,” concurred Yerbury. “Basically, Paul St. Pierre hauled off and shot him. The information and evidence were presented to the prosecutor’s office, and it was determined that a charge of Assault First Degree would be filed against Paul St. Pierre in superior court.”
    Detective Robert Yerbury wrote his final follow-up report concerning the case on June 11, 1984. “At this point,” stated the detective with confidence, “there will be no further investigation. This case was cleared by the arrest of Paul St. Pierre.”
    More than a decade afterward, veteran broadcast journalist and award-winning newscaster Chet Rogers commented on that Saturday morning wounding of Andrew Webb, “The cops thought they were dealing with one drunk shooting another drunk over a seven-dollar debt. An anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers changed everything. The next thing they knew, Tacoma Police were digging up a corpse without a face, and another one without a head. This whole Andrew Webb/St. Pierre brothers’ thing unearthed the most gruesome and bizarre double homicide in the city’s history.”

Two
    June 13, 1984
    On June 13, 1984, an anonymous female informant called Tacoma Police Crime Stoppers. She told Officer Rod Cook that Paul St. Pierre, in custody for shooting Andrew Webb, was connected to the unexplained disappearance several months earlier of a young man named Damon Wells.
    The anonymous caller said that Wells, reported missing on February 27, had been beaten to death by Paul St. Pierre. She told Cook that “Paul St. Pierre broke Wells’s neck, and then they put his body in the trunk of a car and drove off for about four hours. They reportedly put the body in a Dumpster.” That same anonymous source indicated that other people who had lived in the residence as roommates of Paul St. Pierre also had information and knowledge of that incident, reported Officer Cook, “those being Donald Marshall and Mark Perez. According to the caller, Donald Marshall and Mark Perez were going to come to the station and tell what happened, but decided not to when Paul St. Pierre threatened to kill them.”
    Based upon the phone call, Detectives Yerbury and Price reviewed