SPOKANE, Wash – Crime isn’t common in Spokane’s Rockwood Neighborhood. That’s why a murder there in 2013 shocked the city and is still one of the 509’s Most Notorious Crimes.
In the next episode of the true crime series, we explore the murder of Doug Carlile, a south hill businessman who was murdered in his home right before Christmas.
Police didn’t know it that night, but they knew quickly that Carlile had warned his family that someone might come after him. Carlile even named the man he said would be behind any violence directed his way.
The crime was part of a tangled web of business dealings in the oil fields of North Dakota. Men, so desperate for money and control, they’d kill to get it.
By the time the investigation was done, police had not only found a man who ordered the hit on Doug Carlile – they also uncovered a second murder.
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