Bremerton Patriot, May 18, 2012

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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 | Vol. 14, No. 17 www.bremertonpatriot.com | 50¢

Fashion era ends at Bremerton High

“Our annual Armed Forces Parade is the longest running and largest in the United States!” BREMERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Armed Forces 2012 Festival Guide

THE 64TH ANNUAL ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE IS SATURDAY, MAY 19 STARTING AT 10:00AM

Armed Forces Day The history of the longest running AFD parade in the nation. Inside Kitsap Week

Bremerton’s person of interest under surveillance

Police case against ‘serial killer’ still too thin for charges By KEVAN MOORE kmoore@soundpublishing.com

Greg Skinner/staff photo

Miss Madonna Hanna works with her students’s fashion show runway walking skills Tuesday morning in the hall outside her Bremerton High School classroom, The final fashion show of a 30-year teaching career will be on May 22 at 7 p.m.

Retiring teacher prepares for final show by KATE WHITTLE kwhittle@soundpublishing.com

On May 22, the lights will go up at 7 p.m. for Madonna Hanna’s last fashion show with Bremerton High School. The fashion marketing teacher is retiring in June after a 30-year career of coaching students to be their personal and professional best. On a recent Tuesday morning, Hanna was running her Advanced Fashion Marketing students through runway drills in preparation for the show. Strutting down the tiled floor of the high-school hallway, wearing black pumps, a blue suit, ropy pearl necklace and

Greg Skinner /staff photo

Beads await the sewing hands of students in Miss Madonna Hanna’s fashion class at Bremerton High School Tuesday morning. hair in sleek bun, she showed them the steps. “Okay, now this is Routine 2,” Hanna said. “Turn, pivot,and walk off looking over your shoulder.” Allysiah Kenney, a junior, is a backstage hand for the show. Wearing a slim black hoodie and jeans, she built the mock ice cream truck stage prop from construction paper. “She’s my favorite teacher,” Kenney said. Another junior, Justin Bass, was designing dresses for the show. He was working on a short, strapless candy-themed dress, which will be festooned See TEACHER, A11

Police are unwilling to confirm the identity of the “person of interest” in the Bremerton serial killer case, but some new details about the investigation have emerged in recent weeks. Bremerton police released a pair of sketches of the person of interest following the Feb. 3 murder of Melody Brannon, 61, outside of her High Avenue Home. The man in the sketch was interviewed by police, but they have not moved to make an arrest while they continue to work on building a case against him for Brannon’s murder along with the May 3, 2011, murder of Sara Burke and the June 20 knife attack of a man that survived. Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent recently confirmed that the man is now under round-the-clock surveillance by police. But, Lent said, investigators do not yet have enough direct evidence to make an arrest or see to the successful murder prosecution in court. “Until we have that DNA that can tie him or the weapon that was used, then how are we going to convict and prosecute?” Lent said. “And that’s what we want — him off the street forever.” Bremerton Police Chief Craig Rogers was unwilling to comment for this story. “We’ve given out all See HOMELESS, A8 we the information that

can possibly give out and I have nothing further to add,” Chief Rogers said. Multiple sources say that police have surveillance footage of a man, believed to be their person of interest in the two murders, buying a knife from the Safeway Store located at the corner of Callow Avenue and 11th Street only minutes before one of the attacks. Lent described the video as circumstantial and said investigators need more direct evidence tying the person of interest to the murders in order to win a conviction. A week after Brannon’s murder police said that the crime was likely tied to the stabbing death of 19-yearold Sara Burke on Warren Avenue and the June 20, 2011, stabbing assault of Kenny Cobb as he walked along Burwell Street. The seemingly random attacks occurred within blocks of each other in the Union Hill Neighborhood and involved lone victims. The police raised the specter of a serial killer loose on the streets of Bremerton. The FBI, state and county police all joined in the effort to find the killer as the city police racked $63,000 in overtime working the case. That possibility of a serial killer living and walking among the residents of the Union Hill neighborhood has captivated the city and region for months as citizens continue to ask about the person they fear. See KILLER, A15


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