The investigation into the death of a Spokane, Wash., businessman exposes a web of malevolence extending from the Pacific Northwest to a North Dakota oil field.
The investigation into the death of a Spokane, Wash., businessman exposes a web of malevolence extending from the Pacific Northwest to a North Dakota oil field.
tape. sesnick walked into the house. it was just a weird scene all in all. this was december 15th. there s christmas music playing throughout the house. that s bizarre. it was very bizarre. they re very religious people, so there s religious scripture written on the walls. them you have this horribly violent and gruesome murder. with the body laying on the floor that you re investigating. it was a very, very odd scene. reporter: 63-year-old doug carlisle was lying on the kitchen floor, clearly the victim of a close-range shooting. there was a lot of blood around the body. a lot of shell casings. a lot of bullets laying around. how badly was this person damaged? he d been shot seven times. it was obviously a very brutal attack. it wasn t just a one time shot and the person ran out. clearly someone was making sure. correct. whoever had done this, we knew they wanted to make sure he didn t survive. and whatever happened here didn t appear to have been
did he tell you a story, sit you down for a cup of tea? what. he leaned out the door, slapped me on the shoulder and said too bad you drove all that way, my attorney told me not to talk to you and he shut the door. and you got nothing. got nothing. except for a rude reception which might have told you something? he was a big man, 5 10 , 250 pounds of steroid muscle. he bragged he was benching over 500 pounds, and i believe it, but i don t get intimidated and grew werewolf fangs when he reached out and tried to belittle me. nothing to do but suck it up and drive those 700 miles back home empty handed. in the meantime, sesnick got a blood clot that nearly killed him. a month after doug carlile s murder they had suspects, oh, yes, but nothing was coming together. coming up, finally, a clue, and it s a big one. the very top of the paper is
police detectives brian sesnick and mark burbridge were pulled into the strangest case of their careers. it was the most unique homicide i d investigated, and i knew that from the first moments of my involvement. really? just you knew? yes. it was sesnick who drove over first to the address at south hill. the sort of place a homicide detective can go a whole career without visiting a single time. the house is in a very upper-class neighborhood. and the south hill, that s where you want to be in town. right. the street that it s on, i d never been to before. why would you as a homicide detective? there s just not crime up there in general. so it was very odd. the home the detective was going to was owned by a businessman named doug carlisle and his wife of many years alberta. they put up their crime scene