BAD TOWN #12 BAD REPUTATION TOWN

Episode #12 bad reputation town

AKA Bellingham’s Serial Killer Bar/ Body in the Boiler

We’re running a little behind with this post as well, but no apologies this time - we don’t give a damn about our BAD REPUTATION! Just throwing out a Joan Jett reference for the latest episode of the City of Subdued... BAD TOWN.

That’s right, it’s another podcast companion blog update for episode 12 of season 2 of The City of Subdued Podcast. This season we’ve teamed up with Annika and Maria to bring you a season of the darkest, the most oppressive, the spookiest, and the baaaaaadest parts of Bellingham History!

In this week’s FINAL episode we get into the “vintage” era of the 1970s and 1980s and Bellingham’s dive-y waterfront scene with a discussion of our legendary “Serial Killer Bar” as well as a crazy unsolved mystery of a body found in the former Georgia Pacific mill complex.

CONTENT WARNING - Discussions of violence and murder and other gruesome topics, some of which are of more recent memory.

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We’ve added a few images here to accompany the episode, and further resources below:

For further information:

You’re Wrong About podcast did a 4-parter on the D.C. Snipers.  We recommend this podcast in general, also - lots of great topics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d-c-snipers-part-1/id1380008439?i=1000465289963

For more on the unsolved case of the body in boiler stack nine see:

Bellingham Herald article by Dean Kahn https://www.bellinghamherald.com/article173627656.html

See also his article in the Journal of the Whatcom County Historical Society Number 17, December 2017.

And there’s also this Curious World video on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhvGm2n-U3U&list=PL282O55B13ZAICJ3SThEOF2WLtGqGng2-&index=59&t=251s

For a look at the demolition/demise of GP and Bellingham’s industrial waterfront see this presentation by local photographer Tore Ofteness: Requiem for a Pulp Mill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4TySGyyvE&list=PL282O55B13ZAICJ3SThEOF2WLtGqGng2-&index=35

Also mentioned in this episode:

The 1992 novel set in Bellingham Bay during the 1850s The Living -by Annie Dillard http://www.anniedillard.com/books-annie-dillard.html

The 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmIQFcPXLXA