NEWPORT, WA – A disturbing scene unfolded in rural eastern Washington this week, where sheriff’s deputies responding to a welfare check discovered a woman chained and a man’s body buried on private property.
The investigation began after the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office received a tip that a woman was being held against her will on a property in the Fertile Valley Road area, about 35 miles north of Spokane, and that a deceased man was buried nearby. Spokane deputies relayed the information to Pend Oreille County deputies, who arrived at the scene around 8:33 p.m. on June 5.
According to the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office, deputies contacted a man at the end of a driveway, who led them onto the property. There, they discovered a woman restrained with chains, unable to leave. A short distance away, deputies found a body buried near where the woman was being held…