9Y10C
09-20-09, 14:02
"A killer escaping a field trip to the Spokane, WA County Fair has become a wakeup call for fair officials."
TIMELINE:
April 1987: The gasoline-soaked body of Ruth Motley, 78, is found in a shallow grave, her throat slit and neck broken. Phillip Arnold Paul, who lived nearby, told deputies "voices" in his head instructed him to "kill the witch on Emerald Road."
July 1987: Paul is found not guilty by reason of insanity in Mottley's murder and ordered held indefinitely at a "state mental institution for the criminally insane."
August 1990: Paul refuses his medication and later escapes from Eastern State Hospital. He's arrested near Fishtrap, WA and while being booked into the Spokane County Jail, overpowers a deputy, shattering the law enforcement officer's shoulder. A jury later orders the state to pay the deputy more than $100,000.
Early 1992: Paul enrolls at Spokane Falls Community College and is allowed to leave Eastern State Hospital to attend classes. During the next two years he also works part time at the Spokane Goodwill store and at an antique furniture shop downtown, sometimes for 30 hours a week.
October 1994: Paul seeks release from his court-ordered commitment at Eastern State Hospital. A Yakima judge refuses.
1998: Paul seeks approval to return home to live with his parents in the Yakima Valley and is allowed to spend two weeks at a time at the family home, then return to the Eastern State Hospital to receive his medications before doing another two-week transition.
June 2000: Paul is approved for a full-time return to his family home in Yakima Valley, but within a few months his counselors begin expressing concerns over his progress.
October 2000: Paul is ordered back to Eastern State Hospital after treatment providers notice threatening and delusional behavior. Among other things, Paul tells counselors of someone he thinks is a "witch."
October 2005: After five years back at Eastern State Hospital, Paul is approved for a conditional release to The Carlyle, an assisted living facility in downtown Spokane. He begins dating a woman who becomes pregnant and has a baby boy in 2006.
February 2006: Paul is ordered back to Eastern State Hospital after refusing to take his medications.
October 2007: Paul is approved again for release to the Carlyle, but counselors report he begins exhibiting increasingly defiant behavior.
January 2009: Paul is ordered back to Eastern State Hospital after refusing to take his medication and being spotted in a pawnshop that sells firearms and other weapons, which is prohibited under terms of his release.
September 17, 2009: During a field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair with other "criminally insane" patients, Paul escapes. A manhunt remains under way. (as of 09/20/09)
other excerpts from the article:
"Paul, who was 25 at the time, attacked Ruth Mottley, snapping her neck and slashing her throat twice. He then doused her body with gasoline and buried her in her own flower garden. Paul told authorities that the voices in his head told him Mottley was a witch who was casting spells on him."
"He was not the only murderer on the outing to the fair yesterday..."
"A judge ruled earlier this month that a paraniod schizophrenic killer who remained at large Friday after walking away from a supervised outing was a threat to public safety because he had become more aggressive and less aware of his psychosis."
"Eastern State Hospital officials waited more than two hours before reporting Paul's escape to police."
"Field trips to such public events as fairs, baseball games, circuses and the Ice Capades routinely include murderers, rapists and pedophiles committed to the hospital as criminally insane."
"We don't consider him extremely dangerous."
"All we know is that he is on foot with $50 in his pocket, headed somewhere."
"Court documents show that the child from 2006 now is in state custody."
9Y10C comment-- and we taxpayers actually pay these people to make such decisions???
TIMELINE:
April 1987: The gasoline-soaked body of Ruth Motley, 78, is found in a shallow grave, her throat slit and neck broken. Phillip Arnold Paul, who lived nearby, told deputies "voices" in his head instructed him to "kill the witch on Emerald Road."
July 1987: Paul is found not guilty by reason of insanity in Mottley's murder and ordered held indefinitely at a "state mental institution for the criminally insane."
August 1990: Paul refuses his medication and later escapes from Eastern State Hospital. He's arrested near Fishtrap, WA and while being booked into the Spokane County Jail, overpowers a deputy, shattering the law enforcement officer's shoulder. A jury later orders the state to pay the deputy more than $100,000.
Early 1992: Paul enrolls at Spokane Falls Community College and is allowed to leave Eastern State Hospital to attend classes. During the next two years he also works part time at the Spokane Goodwill store and at an antique furniture shop downtown, sometimes for 30 hours a week.
October 1994: Paul seeks release from his court-ordered commitment at Eastern State Hospital. A Yakima judge refuses.
1998: Paul seeks approval to return home to live with his parents in the Yakima Valley and is allowed to spend two weeks at a time at the family home, then return to the Eastern State Hospital to receive his medications before doing another two-week transition.
June 2000: Paul is approved for a full-time return to his family home in Yakima Valley, but within a few months his counselors begin expressing concerns over his progress.
October 2000: Paul is ordered back to Eastern State Hospital after treatment providers notice threatening and delusional behavior. Among other things, Paul tells counselors of someone he thinks is a "witch."
October 2005: After five years back at Eastern State Hospital, Paul is approved for a conditional release to The Carlyle, an assisted living facility in downtown Spokane. He begins dating a woman who becomes pregnant and has a baby boy in 2006.
February 2006: Paul is ordered back to Eastern State Hospital after refusing to take his medications.
October 2007: Paul is approved again for release to the Carlyle, but counselors report he begins exhibiting increasingly defiant behavior.
January 2009: Paul is ordered back to Eastern State Hospital after refusing to take his medication and being spotted in a pawnshop that sells firearms and other weapons, which is prohibited under terms of his release.
September 17, 2009: During a field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair with other "criminally insane" patients, Paul escapes. A manhunt remains under way. (as of 09/20/09)
other excerpts from the article:
"Paul, who was 25 at the time, attacked Ruth Mottley, snapping her neck and slashing her throat twice. He then doused her body with gasoline and buried her in her own flower garden. Paul told authorities that the voices in his head told him Mottley was a witch who was casting spells on him."
"He was not the only murderer on the outing to the fair yesterday..."
"A judge ruled earlier this month that a paraniod schizophrenic killer who remained at large Friday after walking away from a supervised outing was a threat to public safety because he had become more aggressive and less aware of his psychosis."
"Eastern State Hospital officials waited more than two hours before reporting Paul's escape to police."
"Field trips to such public events as fairs, baseball games, circuses and the Ice Capades routinely include murderers, rapists and pedophiles committed to the hospital as criminally insane."
"We don't consider him extremely dangerous."
"All we know is that he is on foot with $50 in his pocket, headed somewhere."
"Court documents show that the child from 2006 now is in state custody."
9Y10C comment-- and we taxpayers actually pay these people to make such decisions???