Straub and Parberry Moved to Whatcom Jail
This file appears in: The Blakely Island Killer
A lynch mob threatened the lives of Richard Straub and Irving Parberry at the Friday Harbour jail so authorities moved them to Whatcom.
This file appears in: The Blakely Island Killer
The Blakely Island Killer – Angry Educator Murders School Director
Forty-nine-year-old Richard Straub had been a local educator for more than a decade in the Puget Sound/Salish Sea area when he committed one of the more gruesome crimes in the history of the San Juans. On August 30, 1895, Straub enlisted the aid of…