Bonney Lake mayor pleads with governor to oppose release of convicted triple murderer

Bonney Lake Mayor Terry Carter has sent a letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson to consider reversing the parole decision for Timothy Pauley , who was convicted for the murders of three tavern employees in 1980.

Pauley, then 21, tortured five people at Barn Door Tavern in SeaTac during closing time, killing three of them with his accomplice. The pair used extension cords to tie up three women and two men who were cleaning up. They forced the women to undress and brought the men into a walk-in cooler, where Pauley executed them with a revolver. One of the women was later strangled by a cord used to tie her to a bar rail, the Associated Press reported. The other two women survived.

He was serving three life sentences for the robbery, rape, and murder of those three people…

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