City of Subdued... BAD TOWN episode 10 - BAD BUTCHERED TOWN

The Good Time Girls have teamed up with the ladies of The City of Subdued Podcast to bring you a season of the darkest, the most oppressive, the spookiest, and the baaaaaadest parts of Bellingham History!

In this week’s episode, we get into one of our favorite Bellingham true-crime stories, an unsolved mystery and murder of a local butcher. The victim was Frederick Dames, a civil war veteran who opened a meat market on Elk Street (now State Street) where he was found brutally murdered in 1905.

The suspects were numerous, and though the murder was declared solved a few years later, many doubts remain as to whether the supposed perpetrator was actually responsible for this particular crime…. more on this suspect and his litany of horrendous crimes in next week’s episode!

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Content warning for extremely gruesome descriptions of this particularly heinous murder .

You can also listen at any of these podcast-listening places: google podcasts, apple podcasts, spotify, or podbay as well as on local Bellingham radio station KMRE Thu Dec 10, 2020, 10:00pm - 11:00pm

And for further reading, check out Murder in the Fourth Corner, Volume 1 by Todd A. Warger.