NEWS-TIMES WHIDBEY
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011 | Vol. 120, No. 80 | WWW.WHIDBEYNEWSTIMES.COM | 75¢
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Man held for 2 murders, kidnapping 80-year-old grandfathers both killed By JESSIE STENSLAND Staff reporter
John Fisken /Whidbey News-Times
Oak Harbor police officers, above, arrest double-murder suspect Joshua Lambert on N. Oak Harbor Street Monday afternoon.
This is a huge blow to my community and the citizens here.’
Justin Burnett / Whidbey News-Times
Joshua Lambert, right, a 30-yearold transient, makes his preliminary appearance in Island County Superior Court Tuesday afternoon. He was ordered held without jail on suspicion of murder and kidnapping.
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A 30-year-old homeless man named Joshua Lambert stabbed his grandfather to death with an ice pick and tied up the elderly man’s sister with clear packing tape, leaving her to lie helplessly and watch her brother die, according to a report by the Island County Sheriff’s Office. But the horror didn’t end there. Lambert is a suspect in a second deadly stabbing that occurred a short time later at a different North Whidbey home, Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks announced in court Tuesday afternoon. The victims are both 80 years old and they are both Lambert’s grandfathers. Island County Sheriff Mark Brown identified them as George David Lambert and August Eugene Eisner. The motive for the killings, Banks said, was that Lambert “desperately wanted firearms� and the victims resisted. Lambert, looking confused and unsure, made his preliminary appearance in Island County Superior Court Tuesday afternoon. He’s initially facing charges of firstdegree murder and first-degree kidnapping. Banks asked the judge to hold Lambert without bail under a new state law that was passed in the wake of the quadruple police SEE LAMBERT, A4