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VA doc’s wife believes he was abducted, killed

Suzan Marshall’s husband was found in the Spokane River in January and his death was ruled an accident or suicide, but she does not want to close the door on her husband’s death. She has hired a private investigator who believes Dr. John Marshall was killed and his body was staged in the river.  Police remain confident that Marshall’s death was not a homicide. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
Suzan Marshall’s husband was found in the Spokane River in January and his death was ruled an accident or suicide, but she does not want to close the door on her husband’s death. She has hired a private investigator who believes Dr. John Marshall was killed and his body was staged in the river. Police remain confident that Marshall’s death was not a homicide. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Suzan Marshall believes somebody killed her husband five months ago, despite a police investigation and autopsy that determined Spokane Veterans Affairs surgery chief Dr. John Marshall fell into the Spokane River during a morning run and drowned. “Anyone with common sense would say, ‘How does a runner drown?’ ” she said. Marshall has hired Ted Pulver, a private investigator, to review the evidence. What he has uncovered has led Marshall to believe a killer abducted her husband as he took his downtown morning run, tortured him and staged his death as an “accidental” river drowning in January./Eli Francovich, SR. More here.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.