Timeline of a $1 Tragedy: The Early Week Edition Maurin Murders Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 / Main 16 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com 1985 Maurin Murders Justice at Last Jury Finds Rick Riffe Guilty on All Counts Pete Caster /
[email protected] Above: Lewis County Sherif's Oice Detective Bruce Kimsey, left, hugs Dennis Hadaller after a jury found Rick Rife guilty of all counts in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. Hadaller was the son of Minnie Maurin, who, along with her husband, Ed, were murdered by Rife in December of 1985. Hadaller has spent much of the last two decades keeping the cold case relevant. Kimsey was the lead detective on the case for the past eight years. Top Right: Rick Rife enters a Lewis County Superior Court room prior to a verdict being read in his six-week double-homicide trial on Monday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. GUILTY: Jury Finds Rick Riffe Guilty of Seven Felony Counts in Relation to the Slayings of Ed and Minnie Maurin, Including Ed Maurin Minnie Maurin Murder, Kidnapping, murdered in murdered in Robbery and Burglary 1985 1985 By Stephanie Schendel As the judge read verdict af-
[email protected] ter verdict, Riffe remained emo- A jury found Rick Riffe tionless, as he had throughout guilty for the 1985 kidnapping, most of the six-week trial. robbery and murders of Ethel Riffe’s long-time girlfriend, residents Ed and Minnie Mau- Sherry Tibbetts, who sat two rin after a day and a half of de- rows behind the defendant, liberations Monday.