It was approximately ten a.m. on Saturday, May 13th, 2000 when a woman named Barb Barron spotted the neighbors across the street from her home in Bremerton, Washington. Thirty-one-year-old Clint Conn was working on a car in the yard, and his girlfriend, thirty-two-year-old Karen Lane, was arranging flowers on the porch.
After they went inside and the hours passed, though, Barb began to think something might be wrong. For one thing, the couple had left their beloved pit bull outside all day, which they never did; they always took their pet with them if they were going somewhere.
At around nine p.m., Barb also noted that the bathroom light had been left on, which was also very unusual, as the pair never failed to turn off all the lights when they left the house.
Another friend of the couple had likewise begun to have suspicions that something was amiss. He had called Karen at about eleven-thirty on Saturday morning and noted that she’d sounded agitated, as though she was anxious to get off the phone. The friend was concerned and stopped by to check on Karen and Clint at one o’clock that afternoon, but no one answered his knocks and the house was locked up tight.
Sunday passed with no word from either of them, and on Monday the 15th the friend returned to the residence, asking Barb Barron if she’d seen the couple. She hadn’t, so the friend kicked in the door of their home on North Charleston Avenue.
Inside, he found the body of Clint Conn; he’d been shot once in the head. The friend immediately called 911.
When the police arrived, they found the body of Karen Lane in a different room. She had also been shot.
According to neighbors, Karen and Clint had lots of noisy late-night parties at their house, with people coming and going at all hours. Despite this, Barb Barron described Karen as a “sweet gal.” Clint was believed to be involved with drugs in some capacity, reportedly meth, and neighbors also stated that the police had been to the couple’s residence on at least two occasions prior to their murder.
The motive for the crime is still unknown, as is the killer or killers.
Crime Immemorial 