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Liysa and Chris Northon seemed the epitome of idyllic lovers when they married on a moonlit beach in Hawaii. Their friends admired the romantic couple: Chris tall, athletic, handsome with a thatch of blond hair, a pilot for Hawaiian Airlines and Liysa attractive, charismatic, seductive, an acclaimed surf photographer, with a tanned, perfect body. Their son, Bjorn, looked just like his dad, and they were raising Liysas son by a previous marriage. They had beautiful homes on the mainland and in Hawaii.
But it wasnt long before Chris saw a side of Liysa that he hadnt glimpsed before. Nothing was quite enough for her she wanted more money, more property, and a future that included fame as a Hollywood screenwriter. She complained to her closest friends that her husband was a heavy drinker who beat her. The marriage seemed to be unraveling, but Chris struggled to hold it together, afraid hed be separated from Bjorn and from Liysas son, Papako. And then the worst happened.
On a sunny morning in October 2000, Chris Northon lay dead in a sleeping bag at a campsite beside a pristine river, while his wife drove four hours to a friends house, sobbing inconsolably. She appeared to have been beaten, and had a black eye and bruises on her knee. Was Chriss death a tragic accident or a deliberate homicide? Was Liysa involved? Questions arose that made Oregon State detectives suspicious, yet her family and friends stood staunchly by her, incredulous that anybody would ask such questions.
Ann Rule became involved with the mystery of Chriss death when one of his fellow pilots at Hawaiian Airlines contacted her, and only later did she learn that the ranking Oregon State Police investigator had thought of her to tell this bizarre story. A book that leads the reader from Hawaii to the Northwest to Hollywood, Heart Full of Lies is an extraordinary character study as well as a brilliant investigative report that will keep you enthralled to the very last page.
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A LSO BY A NN R ULE
Every Breath You Take
And Never Let Her Go
Bitter Harvest
Dead by Sunset
Everything She Ever Wanted
If You Really Loved Me
The Stranger Beside Me
Possession
Small Sacrifices
Without Pity
Last Dance, Last Chance
Empty Promises
A Rage to Kill
The End of the Dream
In the Name of Love
A Fever in the Heart
You Belong to Me
A Rose for Her Grave
The I-5 Killer
The Want-Ad Killer
Lust Killer
POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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The names of some individuals in this book have been changed. Such names are indicated by an asterisk (*) the first time each appears in the book.
Copyright 2003 by Ann Rule
Originally published in hardcover in 2003 by The Free Press
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address The Free Press, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
ISBN: 0-7434-1013-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-6159-3 (eBook)
First Pocket Books paperback edition October 2004
POCKET and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
The photo of Liysa and her attorneys on page 15 of the photo insert by Elane Dickenson, the Wallowa County Chieftain.
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For Chriss little boy
to read
when he can understand
Mother: Sharon Arnhart DeWitt Fisher
Father: Wayland DeWitt, Ph.D.
Brother: Dr. Jon Keith Tor DeWitt
Jimmie Rhonda DeWitt, Tors ex-wife
Gene Arnhart, her maternal grandfather
Lois Arnhart, her maternal grandmother
Barbara Bobbi Chitwood, Liysas maternal aunt
Papakolea Papako,* her son with Nick Mattson
Bjorn Northon,* her son with Chris Northon
Kurt Moran,* her first husband
Nick Mattson,* her second husband
Lora Lee Mattson,* Nicks current wife
Mary Mattson,* Nicks mother
Tim Sands,* her ex-fianc
Jane Sands,* Tims mother
Makimo,* her former lover
Ray, a former lover
Randall Edwards, her high school date
Kevin,* her high school boyfriend
Craig Elliot,* screenwriter, coauthor
Marni Kelly Clark* and Dr. Ben Clark*, Walla Walla, Washington; Ellen Duveaux,* Dayton, Washington; Betsy Haygood, California; Kit and Cal Minton,* Hawaii and Connecticut; Mia Rose,* Bend, Oregon; Billy Shamir,* Mias ex-husband; Jane Pultz, Kailua; The Pool Group, Kailua.
Dick Northon, Chriss father
Jeanne Stevenson Northon, Chriss mother
Mary Hetz, Chriss sister
Phil Hetz, Marys ex-husband
Sally Byers, Chriss sister
Bjorn Northon, Chriss son with Liysa
Rick Northon, Dicks half brother
Yvonne Brown, Chriss aunt
Steve Brown, Chriss cousin
Ed Brown, Chriss uncle
Tom Brown, Chriss cousin
Jean Topping, Chriss aunt
Margaret Lefton, landlady in Kailua; Maggie and Joe Rhys-Wilson, (fellow pilot); Randy Ore (pilot), Eva and John Gill, Bend, Oregon; Arne and Carrie Arnesen,* Bend; Charlene Maka Makanani, ex-girlfriend; Sabrina Tedford, ex-girlfriend; Anna Goodrich, ex-girlfriend; Gina Goodrich, Annas sister; Gay Bradshaw, ex-girlfriend; Sharon Leighty, ex-girlfriend; Don Strain, Bend handyman/carpenter; Buck Zink, boyhood friend, Bend; Rob Ezell, Bend; Dan Jones (pilot), Utah and Hawaii; Dr. David Jones; Debbie and Dave Story (pilot), Kailua; Warren Kitchell (pilot), Kailua; Kris Olson and Becky Jones, Bend.
COURT PERSONNEL
Undersheriff Rich Stein, Wallowa County
Sheriff Ron Jett, Wallowa County
Detective Matt Cross, Wallowa County Sheriffs Office
Jody Williamson, United States Forest Service
Detective Patric Montgomery, Oregon State Police
Detective Jim Van Atta, Oregon State Police
Detective Mike Wilson, Oregon State Police
Detective Rob Ringsage, Oregon State Police
Dan Ousley, District Attorney, Wallowa County
Carol Terry, Assistant to Dan Ousley
Criminal Investigator Dennis Dinsmore, Oregon Attorney Generals Office
Steve Briggs, Assistant Attorney General, Oregon
Deputy Kevin Larkin, Columbia County (Washington) Sheriffs Office
Dr. Karen Gunson, Oregon State Medical Examiner
Lieutenant Jeff Dovci, Criminalist, Oregon State Police Lab
Christine Ogilvie, Criminalist, Oregon State Police Lab
Deputy Dick Bobbitt, Umatilla County Sheriffs Office
Judge Philip Mendiguren, Trial Judge
Klista Steinbeck, Tracey Hall, Jary Homan, Court Operations Specialists, Wallowa County
FBI Special Agent Ariel Miller, Computer Expert
Pat Birmingham, Criminal Defense Attorney
Wayne Mackeson, Criminal Defense Attorney
Robin Karnes and Harold Nash, Private Investigators
A LMOST EVERY BOOK I have researched has had a beginning, a middle, and an end that were obvious when I began. By the time the defendant went to trial, hisor herguilt appeared to be well established. There was little question that a sudden death might have been an accident or a suicide. There was no particular mystery about who-dunnit? Although loyal family members might have been in one corner or another, the mass of witnesses were testifying against the defendant.
In Heart Full of Lies, I found instead an emotional tug-of-war with dozens of people pulling on the victims side and as many fiercely loyal to the accused. To this day, most of their allegiances have remained steadfast. Initially, I was puzzled that anyone could find the deceased so flawed and the defendant so angelic. Few human beings are either all good or all bad. The only way I have managed to deal with this impasse has been to show both sides as clearly as possible.
Still, in the end, the truth began to sift out of a morass of statements. Ive noted that correspondence sent to me anonymously came from those who praised the defendant. They would give neither their names nor their positions in the defendants life. On the other hand, the friends of the person who died were ready to step forward and give me their names and their connection to this case.
It is difficult to place your trust in people who hide in the shadows of anonymity. Did you personally see this happen? I asked again and again, trying to cut through the curtain that email with its endless choice of screen names affords. Could this have been an accident? And the answer was always No.
Then how do you know what happened? I pressed.
I just know, they all answered, either because they were absolutely convinced they were right or because they had been charmed and bewitched and manipulated by a brilliant and charismatic sociopath.
T HE MOUNTAINS and high plains of extreme northeastern Oregon are so far from well-traveled freeways that even most Oregonians have never been to this wilderness area where the sky seems close enough to touch. These are the Oregon Alps. Serious outdoorsmen and those with family ties to Wallowa County follow the thin red lines on the map that promise at most only paved highways, up and up through the mountains from Pendleton or La Grande. The summits are more than five thousand feet high, and then the roads descend through tiny villages whose buildings are mostly gray shadows of their former incarnations, tumbled with old-fashioned perennials and weeds, fading storefronts and little churches with peeling paint: Adams, Athena, Elgin, Minam, Wallowa, Lostine. Near the end of the road is Enterprisethe county seatand finally the hamlet called Joseph, named for the great chief of the Nez Perc tribe. All these towns, so far-flung from city lives, have a presence and a feeling of serenity that comes only with long history and time without urgency.
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