Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin, 'a journalism giant,' dies at 75
Bill Morlin, the dogged investigative reporter who covered everything from neo-Nazis and white supremacists to crooks and corrupt politicians in some four decades at the Spokane newspapers, died Saturday. He was 75
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Bill Morlin, Jess Walter and Shawn Vestal discuss Ruby Ridge for a podcast, Aug. 15, 2017, in Spokane, Wash. Dan Pelle/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
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A panel of former Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle reporters present during a continuous learning education symposium concerning the Spokane South Hill Rapist 40 years later, Friday morning, Nov. 5, 2021 at the Gonzaga University Law School. From left Shaun O'L. Higgins Bill Morlin Karen Dorn Steele, Rick Bonino, and John Webster.
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Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley address a panel of former Review and Spokane Chronicle reporters during a continuous learning education symposium concerting the Spokane South Hill Rapest 40 years later, Friday morning, Nov. 5, 2021 at the Gonzaga University Law School. From left Shaun O'L. Higgins Bill Morlin, Curley, Karen Dorn Steele, Rick Bonino, John Webster and retired Judge Kathleen M. O'Connor.
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Bill Morlin started as a copy clerk at The Spokesman-Review.
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Journalists for the Spokesman-Review consult by the roadside near Naples, Idaho during the standoff between Randy Weaver and federal authorities in August of 1992. In this photo are, from left, reporter Bill Morlin (holding a two-way radio), freelance photographer Mason Marsh, reporter Kevin Keating (behind Marsh) and photographer Jesse Tinsley. For several days, media, protesters and neighbors staked out the roadblock which federal authorities used to keep people out of the area while they negotiated the surrender of Weaver. Not visible, but driving the Jeep at left, is reporter J. Todd Foster. Spokesman-Review archive NEWSROOM SCRAPBOOK
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Spokesman-Review reporter, Bill Morlin, left, stands next to the unidentified president of the New York City Chapter of the Hell's Angels. Seated is the president of Washington Nomad Chapter of the Hell's Angels, Richard "Smilin' Rick" Fabel, left, and Founder of Hell's Angels, Ralph "Sonny" Barger in Missoula, Mont, at the Hell's Angels National Run, July 2000.
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Bill Morlin in a 2006 Spokesman-Review staff portrait.
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Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin conducts a interview with a man a tow company in Ellensburg Wash. in 2005.
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Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin conducts a interview with a man a tow company in Ellensburg Wash. in 2005.
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After Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in 1992, reporters and photographers gathered at the Deep Creek Inn, including (from left) Elaine Porterfield, Colin Mulvany, Jesse Tinsley, Melanie Threlkeld, John Allison, Bill Morlin, Troy Maben, Kevin Keating, Susan Drumheller, Jeff Ray and Tom Grant.
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S-R reporter Bill Morlin breaks up the police escort for Brian Todd Davis, 21; after he was sentenced to 20 days work detail after being accused of throwing Ilaura Fleck into a bon fire.
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Bill Morlin, SR Newsroom. Elissa Bean/The Spokesman-Review
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Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin talks with Cal Walker, Fred Ruetsch and Rick Grabenstein on the last day of the Homicide Task Force in 2001.
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Spokesman-Review reporters Jeanette White, Bill Morlin and Mike Roarke interview members of the Homicide Task Force at their office within the Spokane County Public Safety Building about the investigation serial killer Robert L. Yates in 2001.
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Jeannette White, Bill Morlin and Mike Roarke listen to the Homicide Task Force spin their tale of serial killer Robert L. Yates in 2001.
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Spokesman-Review reporters Bill Morlin and Jeanette White interview Stuart Davis at the Airway Heights Correctional Facility for their report on Robert L Yates and the Homicide Task Force in 2001.
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Spokesman-Review reporters Jeanette White and Bill Morlin interview serial killer hobbist Brian Csuk in his valley apartment in 2001.
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Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin, wearing a press badge, interviews white separatist Richard Butler as his backers push through a line of protesters to make way for the aging Aryan Nations leader to take the stage in Coeur d’Alene’s City Park on July 3, 1999.
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