** Updated version with proper pronunciation of "Yakima" **
Late one night in November of 1975 a man came home from work and parked his car at the end of his driveway, which looped around the back of his house. After sitting in his seat for a minute, he turned his car off, and then stepped outside into the cold night air. From there, he walked toward the side of his house where there was a path that led around to his front door, but before he could reach his front door, he heard a voice call out to him from somewhere off to his right. The man stopped and stared into the darkness, wondering if he really had just heard a voice at all, but then as he stared, the voice called his name again. Confused, the man walked to the fence at the edge of his property, and looked over it to see who was there. Little did this man know, he had just walked into a trap.
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Note about content:
We do not do any original reporting. The stories we tell are dramatizations based on events that we research and describe using existing source material.
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HIGH QUALITY:
Official records (including court records, inmate records, obituaries, police reports)
Washington V Pleasant 1978
https://www.anylaw.com/case/washington-v-pleasant/court-of-appeals-of-washington/08-21-1978/k81uYWYBTlTomsSB6ZC0
Talmadge Glynn Moore find-a-grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152584504/talmadge-glynn-moore
Morris Blankenbaker find a grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69073654/morris-ray-blankenbaker
https://www.sysoon.com/deceased/morris-blankenbaker-237
BOOKS:
Rule, Ann. A Fever in the Heart : And Other True Cases. New York, Pocket Books, 1996.
SETTING:
Calendar 1975
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1975&country=1
Fashion in 1975
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1970-1979/
Yakima, WA
https://www.yakimawa.gov/visit/about/
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
Collection of old news articles–excellent source:Bonnie’s Life of Crime Blog
https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/tag/morris-blakenbaker/
SUBSCRIPTION NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
The case of the agitated athletes by Ann Rule
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RH4qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A1cEAAAAIBAJ&dq=gabby%20moore%20murder&pg=4446%2C2992638
OBITUARIES AND DEATH RECORDS:
Talmadge Glynn Moore find-a-grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152584504/talmadge-glynn-moore
Morris Blankenbaker find a grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69073654/morris-ray-blankenbaker
https://www.sysoon.com/deceased/morris-blankenbaker-237
REAL ESTATE RECORDS:
210 6th street Yakima WA (Morris Blankenbaker house)
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/210-N-6th-St-Yakima-WA-98901/23702469_zpid/
HISTORICAL WEATHER:
Weather underground: Yakima WA
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/wa/yakima/KYKM/date/1975-11-21
DOCUMENTARIES:
INvestigation Discovery: Betrayed: Down for the count Season 1; episode 7; October 4, 2016
Investigation Discovery: I’d kill for you: Wrestling with the devil Season 1; episode 4 2016