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She isolated Wright before killing BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
EVERETT — As Michelle Donohue awaits her Tuesday, July 29, sentencing in Snohomish County Superior Court for murdering her husband, Byron Wright, in 2004, the question remains: How did she get away with it for nearly Q13 FOX NEWS a decade? Michele Donohue will be sentenced July 29. Sheriff ’s Detective Joe Dunn
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What do you think should be done on the MARYSVILLE – Imagine waterfront? the city’s waterfront filled spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
with classy restaurants, a boardwalk and boutiques. Or how about condominiums and a casino? Wouldn’t a park with a stage for concerts and plays be nice? What, you didn’t even know Marysville has a waterfront? It doesn’t look like much now, but city officials hope it will be something special in the future. Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring said it’s part of the Downtown Revitalization vision, which includes the recently completed and widely popular Spray Park. “We want a vibrant downtown that’s generating income and where everybody has jobs,” Nehring said, adding the goal is to have private enterprise build up the waterfront. The downtown master plan calls for a waterfront trail and mixed use of business and living space on the property south of Penny’s. Four years ago the city bought the former Ed and Susan Geddes five-acre marina at 1326 1st St. for $1.9 million. It took four
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Send ideas to spowell@ marysvilleglobe.com. If you’d like your comments to be part of a story include your full name and a phone number for verification. years to decide on a price, as the Geddeses filed suit against the city due to surface water flowing into the marina. Bill Geddes had owned the property in the 1930s as a retention pond for a lumber mill. The city has been applying for grants to clean up the site for years. The city was awarded a $200,000 hazardous substances cleanup Brownsfield grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Oct. 1 of last year. A month later it received an Integrated Planning Grant from the state Department of Ecology for a similar amount. It has hired Maul Foster Alongi Consultants for $304,000 for a contract that runs from July 15, 2014 to Dec. 31, 2017. Past activities at the location, including painting,
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Mayor Jon Nehring would like to see this site turned into something special for the city. boat sanding and fuel and oil storage and handling, likely contaminated the site with arsenic, cadmium and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In addition, stormwater discharge from the adjacent mill site has likely caused some of the contamination. The property was historically used as a marina, but the city has stopped renewing leases and has removed SEE CLEAN, PAGE 2
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parties.” Indeed, even Sharon Diehl, the sister with whom Wright had kept in tenuous contact, didn’t send him a birthday card until 2006, two years after he was killed and one year after Donohue’s divorce in absentia from Wright was finalized. After Diehl sent the card,
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found himself wondering the same thing after a tip from the jail on Dec. 26 last year led to the investigation of Wright’s disappearance. “The victim had relationships with his family, but as time went on, his wife increasingly isolated him from his family, to the point that there was no real communication at all,” Dunn said. “He had friends, but he wasn’t super-social and he didn’t go to
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