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Woman convicted in ‘murder-for-hire’ plot BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Elizabeth Ann Beimer asked a friend in 2008 to find a “hit man” who would be willing to accept $500 to beat to death the father of her 6-year-old daughter, his wife and his parents with a piece of rebar. Instead, the “hit man” alerted the intended victims and they alerted the Auburn Police Department. Last week a jury convicted the 32-year-old Auburn woman of first-degree solicitation to commit murder. Prosecutors said anger over a protracted custody battle with the father of her daughter was the motive. The two were
Group keeps alive a holiday tradition BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Let it grow The City of Auburn and Boy Scout Elliott Pelfrey led a tree planting party at Les Gove Park last Saturday. Pelfrey, an Auburn Mountainview High School junior, organized the planting of 36 trees at the park as part of his Eagle Scout project. From left, Justin Maner, Darrin Child, Brandon Maner, Jackson Millerberg and Trevor Alfrey plant a Tschonoskii crab apple tree. Story, page 3. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
When the White River Presbyterian Church in Auburn folded two years ago, its congregants scattered to new houses of worship. But the spirit that bound them
never married. Beimer will be sentenced at 1 p.m., Dec. 2 in Judge Barbara Mack’s courtroom at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. She faces between 15 to 20 years in prison. According to court records, between Oct. 17 and Oct. 24, 2008, Beimer repeatedly asked a male acquaintance to help kill Robert Davis and his wife, Ruby, and his parents, David and Lorraine Davis. “For several months, Beimer was increasingly frustrated with the custody issues at hand,” Auburn Police Sgt. Scott Near told [ more SCHEME page 4 ]
together at church for so many years still fans its wings and warms its hands over a small piece of the outsized heart of the former congregation. On Thanksgiving between 11 and 1 p.m., 10 former congregants will tie up aprons and grab utensils to serve 200 meals to people who otherwise would have gone without a feast. [ more SUPPER page 5 ]
Network tracking power of quakes Douglas Gibbons, NetQuakes coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, installs a blue seismograph in a home in Renton. COURTESY PHOTO
BY DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
An earthquake isn’t an equalopportunity shaker. So to determine how a quake’s power differs across the Puget Sound region, scientists are setting up sensitive monitoring equipment in someplace solid, such as a house basement, to track that power as
INSIDE Safety prep special section part of the NetQuakes project. A handful of seismographs have been installed in Renton and Kent, where soils, topography and the ground rupture itself all play a role
in how a quake affects buildings. “We discovered in the Nisqually quake and other quakes around the world that ground motion can vary pretty dramatically from neighborhood to neighborhood,” said Bill Steele, Seismology Lab coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network. [ more NETQUAKES page 2 ]
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