Six people are murdered in a beach home on Erlands Point, six miles northwest of Bremerton in Kitsap County, on March 28th, 1934. Barking dogs alert neighbors to the murder scene three days later. The murder investigation becomes a circus as a result of excessive and sensational news attention. 
The inquiry stalls after a week, and the killer's trail becomes cold. Leo Roderick Bernard Hall, 33, an ex-fighter and dry-dock worker, is arrested for the mass murder in October of 1935. On the 11th of September, 1936, Leo Hall is hung in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, in another news-frenzied tragedy.
Peggy Peterson Paulos, a 27-year-old local barmaid and waitress, claimed Hall was a reluctant partner in a botched heist at Erlands Point. Paulos fled for her life as the murders began. In Kitsap County, both Hall and Paulos were charged with murder and went on trial in December 1935. Hall was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death; Paulos was acquitted and released.
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