George Waterfield Russell: The Charmer

On the morning of June 23, 1990 in Bellevue, Washington, a McDonald’s employee was taking out the trash when he found something horrifying, so he ran inside and called 911. Police came to the scene and discovered the nude body of a young woman, but she had no visible gunshot or stab wounds. She had been posed in a strange way, as there was a large coffee cup lid covering her right eye. One foot was crossed over the other and her hands were folded over her stomach and they were holding a pine cone. It was clear she had been dumped there after her death. An autopsy showed she had been kicked so hard that her liver ruptured, in addition to severe head trauma and strangulation marks. The killer then penetrated her with an object after she died. But this is just one of a series of killings in the area by a sexual sadist who had already been breaking into people’s homes.