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Alleged serial rapist charged in 2008 Kirkland attack tographs, police reported. The attacker left and the woman, 63, was able to call A Washington State drivpolice, but they weren’t able er’s license shown in photos to find the assailant, reportof a woman being sexually ing the case “went cold” in assaulted played a crucial August 2009. role in allowing charges to The shoelaces had been be filed in a 2008 Kirkland sent to the Washington rape case, according to court crime lab, however, where documents. DNA tests were done, but The investigative chain the results didn’t match any was laid out in charges known individuals. brought Monday against A new lead developed in Marc Patrick O’Leary. April of this year, however, The charges when Colorado inaccuse O’Leary, 33, vestigators contacted of burglary, rape, Kirkland police about kidnapping and asthe attack here. sault in connection Colorado investigawith an attack on a tors then told how woman at an apartthey’d been trying ment on Northeast to solve a series of Marc Patrick 122nd Street in attacks in cities that O’Leary Kirkland on Oct. 6, included Aurora, 2008. Lakewood, WestminThe charges also lay out a ster and Golden. complex series of investigaColorado police also were tive steps, however, which able to get DNA samples and led to the filing of nearly 40 also had noticed a suspisimilar charges in Colorado. cious vehicle near one of the And in perhaps one of victim’s homes in February the oddest circumstances of 2011, according to court the investigation, part of the papers. police work involved finding With that evidence, that a Lynnwood woman Colorado police were able who police didn’t believe to search a home where had been raped — and in O’Leary and relatives lived. fact led to her being charged The search found more eviwith making false statements dence, including photos of — turned out to really have the Golden and Westminster been attacked. victims. In the Kirkland But Colorado investigation, the police reported also KIRKLAND work started when finding a photo of police began trying another woman, not to solve the 2008 atthe one attacked in tack at the apartment. Kirkland, with a WashAt about 4 a.m. then, ington State driver’s license a woman awoke to a man “prominently displayed in standing over her with a the photographs.” knife. He proceeded to tie That led Colorado police her hands with her shoelac[ more ATTACK page 5 ] es, attack her and take pho-
Juanita Beach Park faces $850,000 funding woes
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Young car enthusiast, Harrison Feldhausen, 5, points to the revolving number plates of the James Bond Aston Martin DB5 during the 9th Annual Concours d’Elegance at Carillon Point on Sunday. The original 007 car that was featured in “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball” was the highlight of the event, which also displayed vintage autos, motorcycles and wooden boats. Event proceeds MORE PHOTOS ONLINE… kirklandreporter.com benefit Seattle Children’s and Evergreen hospitals. CARRIE WOOD, Kirkland Reporter
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Wappler urges locals to prepare now for La Niña BY PEYTON WHITELY pwhitely@kirklandreporter.com
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few days ago, sun. A few days from now, likely gloom, despair, rain, snow. That’s the outlook for the weather season ahead delivered to the Kirkland
Chamber of Commerce from someone who should know: Andy Wappler. Wappler now is a vice president at Puget Sound Energy, but before that, he was a TV meteorologist, as was his father, Harry Wappler. Of course, Wappler told a chamber luncheon Tuesday
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at Carillon Point, that often doesn’t mean much. Between his dad and himself, Wappler explained, he figures they did 40,000 weather forecasts in about 40 years. “Six were correct,” he added. [ more LA NINA page 3 ]
Kirkland is in another fiscal fight about Juanita Beach Park, this time over the possible need for as much as $850,000 more in funding. The park along Lake Washington has been the subject of a lot of dispute since the city acquired it from King County in 2002. The city began an upgrading project there in 2010, awarding the work to DMSL Construction, Inc., then firing DMSL from the work in June and hiring Marshbank Construction 10 days later to complete the work. The park was partly reopened on Aug. 5. But more work remains to be done, and in a presentation to the Kirkland City Council on Sept. 6 from parks managers, a new money problem was laid out. The difficulty, explained Michael Cogle, interim deputy director, is that the project is short about $750,000 or more. A project-completion budget shows the city has about $2.5 million available to do the work, but the total cost is expected to be about $3.2 million. The original DMSL contract was for $1,180,390, with change orders bringing the figure to $1,346,059, parks figures indicate. Of that, some $897,315 was paid to DMSL, leaving $448,744 still available from the original funding. But in later work, done under a contract awarded to Marshbank without competitive bidding and executed partly because of “strong community interest” in reopening the beachfront, more costs [ more PARK page 5 ]
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