Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth by Carlton Smith

Author:Carlton Smith [Smith, Carlton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2017-08-28T19:30:00+00:00

Skamania County Undersheriff Ray Blaisdale was by this time developing doubts about Randy Roth and what happened to his wife.

For openers, there was the strange angle of Jan’s fall. Blaisdale talked to the rescue workers, who told him they couldn’t understand how Jan had come to be so far away from the place where Randy said she had gone over the side.

Blaisdale talked to the rescue worker Bill Wylie, who told him that Randy had said he was in the lead, not Jan. Randy had told Blaisdale it was the other way around. Wylie was sure about what Randy had said, because he’d asked him several times. But Blaisdale was equally sure Randy had told him Jan was ahead.

To Blaisdale, that meant Randy might possibly be lying about the events on the rock. Blaisdale also kept remembering what Randy said about his dead wife: “She didn’t smoke, she didn’t drink, and I loved her very much.”

On Monday, November 30, 1981, as Randy met with insurance agent Darrell Lundquist to begin the process of filing his claim, Louise Mitchell called Randy and Jan’s house again. Still there was no answer.

Meanwhile, Blaisdale called the pediatric clinic, looking for information about Jan. Why did he want to know? Blaisdale was asked. Blaisdale told Shirley Lenz that Jan was dead, that she’d died in a fall on the previous Saturday. Shirley couldn’t believe it. Why hadn’t Randy told her about Jan’s death when he called asking for Jan’s Social Security number? Lenz told the others in the clinic about Blaisdale’s call. Everyone in the clinic got upset, Lenz later remembered, and there was quite a bit of discussion about Randy, and the suddenness of the marriage, and the death itself. People thought the circumstances were suspicious.

Next, Shirley called Louise Mitchell to see if Louise knew anything more about Jan’s death. Until that point, Louise had known nothing of the events of the weekend. She couldn’t believe it, either. She immediately called Randy at work at Vitamilk and had a conversation that was eerily similar to the one Lori Baker would have with Randy ten years later.

“What happened to Janis?” Louise demanded. “Is it true that she’s dead?”

“Yes,” Randy told her.

“Well, why didn’t you contact me?” Louise asked.

Randy didn’t answer.

Louise didn’t know what to say. Finally, she asked if Randy had contacted anyone in Jan’s family in Texas. No, Randy said. Why not? He didn’t have any of the telephone numbers of Jan’s family, Randy said. Louise thought it was more a matter of Randy just not wanting to do it. Louise said she would make the calls and hung up, fuming at Randy’s behavior.

Louise called Jan’s sister in Dallas and told her the bad news. Jan’s sister in turn called their mother, Billie Ray, and told her. Then Jan’s sister called Joe Miranda, Jan’s first husband, and left a message for him to call her.

That night, Billie Ray called Randy and asked what had happened to Jan. Randy explained. What about funeral arrangements? Billie asked.

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