163- The Unsolved Whitehall Slaying

The History Of The Evergreen State

On the 30th of October, 1926, late on a Saturday afternoon, 14 year old Letitia Whitehall walked from her Kirkland house to the dentist's office.
She would never return home.
On November 14th of that year, her body was discovered in the Sammamish River close to the Inglewood Golf Club in Kenmore. She'd been sexually assaulted and then strangled to death.
Chester Dobbs, the dentist, was put on trial and declared not guilty. No additional investigation was ever conducted, no other potential suspects were ever identified, and the case essentially vanished from the public eye.
Listen now to learn more about this terrible unsolved crime in the Evergreen State.
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