Accused serial killer lured his victims with gold in woods
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Richard Bradley, left (via the King Correctional Facility), allegedly lured four people into the woods with the promise of a gold treasure, only to murder them and leave their bodies to rot. He’s accused of killing Emilio Maturin, center (via Washington State Patrol), in 2019 and Brandi Blake, right (via her obituary), in 2021 at the Game Farm Wilderness in Auburn, Washington, about 30 miles south of Seattle. Bradley also allegedly killed Michael Goeman and Goeman’s son Vance Lakey (not pictured) in 2021.

Promising them the allure of gold buried deep in the woods, a Washington state man instead murdered four unsuspecting people and left their bodies to rot.

Richard Walter Bradley, 40, already was facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of Brandi Blake. Now prosecutors last week filed three additional murder charges in the deaths of Emilio Maturin, Michael Goeman, and Goeman’s son Vance Lakey, court records show.

NBC affiliate KING reported Lakey, 31, was last seen March 15, 2021, in his father’s Durango. Cops later conducted a traffic stop on the Durango. Bradley’s wife was allegedly behind the wheel and the Durango was impounded. Bradley allegedly wanted to hire an associate to break into the impound lot and burn down the Durango, but he never went through with the arson, KING reported.

The 59-year-old Goeman’s body was found off an unmaintained county road on April 21, 2021, while his son’s body was found in the same area a week later. Both had been shot.

The Seattle Times, citing an arrest affidavit, reported that all four victims came into money.

Law&Crime reviewed the probable cause affidavit regarding Blake’s and Maturin’s deaths. Documents show investigators recovered Blake’s body on May 26, 2021, at the Game Farm Wilderness in Auburn, Washington, about 30 miles south of Seattle. She died of blunt force trauma. Cops also located three other rib bones bear Blake’s body belonging to another person, later determined to be Maturin.

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