The Brief
- Police arrested 56-year-old Douglas Bowen and charged him with first-degree murder in the August shooting death of 55-year-old Patricia Marceaux in her Centralia home.
- Investigators linked Bowen to the crime after the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho contacted Centralia detectives regarding a separate out-of-state homicide investigation.
- Automated license plate readers placed Bowen’s vehicle in Marceaux’s neighborhood during the homicide, leading to his arrest in Idaho and pending extradition to Washington.
CENTRALIA, Wash. – Police arrested an Idaho man and charged him with first-degree murder in the August homicide of a 55-year-old woman in her Centralia home.
The backstory:
On Aug. 5, 2026, the Centralia Police Department responded to a home near Marion Street and Creekside Court for a welfare check on 55-year-old Patricia Marceaux, because she hadn’t reported to work.
Officers found her dead inside the home. An autopsy determined that she died from multiple gunshot wounds. …