The Nation - News from June 11, 1986
A Seattle jury sentenced to death a drifter who bludgeoned and knifed to death a lawyer, his wife and their two sons and claimed he killed the family because he thought the lawyer was a communist. David L. Rice, 27, an unemployed steelworker, also admitted robbery was a prime motive. He was convicted in the Christmas Eve attacks in the home of Charles Goldmark, 41, his wife, Annie, 43, and their sons, Colin and Derek.
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