By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The Olympian reports the Tenino man found with a dead woman wrapped in a sleeping bag in the passenger compartment of his truck in August has pleaded guilty.
[1]Bernard K. Howell III
Bernard K. Howell III, now 27, was charged in Thurston County Superior Court in the death of Vanda Skau Boone, a woman prosecutors believe met her fate on the bicycle path known as the Yelm to Tenino Trail.
Investigators said the 60-year-old woman’s throat was cut. Boone was a massage therapist who worked in Olympia and lived in Yelm.
Olympian news reporter Jeremy Pawloski writes a sentencing date has not yet been set for the self-employed door-to-door meat salesman.
Read The Olympian’s story here [2]
Read background on the case here [3]
CORRECTION: This headline referring to a news story in The Olympian was corrected to reflect that, despite what The Olympian reported, there was no plea agreement in Howell’s case.