{"id":4347,"date":"2011-01-06T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T03:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2011-01-06T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T03:22:37","slug":"read-the-latest-on-case-of-august-slaying-on-the-tenino-bicycle-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"Read the latest on case of August slaying on the Tenino bicycle trail .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Olympian reports this evening that the Tenino resident found with a dead woman wrapped in a sleeping bag in the passenger compartment of his truck in August has been found competent to stand trial.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1279\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bernard-K.-Howell-III.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1279\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1279\" title=\"Bernard K. Howell III\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bernard-K.-Howell-III-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard K. Howell III<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bernard K. Howell III, 26, is charged in Thurston County Superior Court with first-degree murder. Investigators say the 60-year-old woman&#8217;s throat was cut. Vanda Skau Boone was a massage therapist who worked in Olympia and lived in Yelm.<\/p>\n<p>The self-employed door-to-door meat salesman told deputies he had no part in her death. A judge ordered him evaluated by mental health specialists at Western State Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Read The Olympian&#8217;s story from this evening <a title=\"&quot;Man who had body in truck is competent to stand trial&quot; from The Olympian on Thursday Jan. 6, 2011 at 5:50 p.m.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2011\/01\/06\/1497244\/man-who-had-body-in-pickup-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read background on the case <a title=\"Family, friends and other law enforcement agencies have questions about Tenino murder suspect&quot; from Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1427\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The Olympian reports this evening that the Tenino resident found with a dead woman wrapped in a sleeping bag in the passenger compartment of his truck in August has been found competent to stand trial. Bernard K. Howell III, 26, is charged in Thurston County Superior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}