Bloodiest Christmas Massacres #2: The Killer Who Was Blinded By Hate

It was Christmas Eve , 1985 . Seattle lawyer Charles Goldmark was at home with his married woman , Annie , and their two child , 10 - year - older Colin and 12 - year - former Derek ; all were thirstily anticipating the festive holiday dinner to arrive . But a murderous , hatred - filled unknown would put an remainder to all of their plans .

David Lewis Rice tap on the threshold of the Goldmark home , pretending to deliver a bundle . He push his way in , brandish a$3 toy gun . He then knocked out the category with chloroform before , as the Spokane Chronicle report , he “ handcuffed the parents and used a tongue and steam iron to attack them [ all ] . ” His confession was awfully graphic , write the AP :

At one head in the tape , Rice described how his victim were still active after he chloroformed them , then bashed their skull open with the tip of the steam iron .

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“ So I decided to complete the job with a knife , ” he sound out . “ I inserted the full point of the knife in the skull where it was broken from the Fe … and stirred it around . ”

Annie and Colin died that solar day of their injury ; Charles survive in a hospital untilJanuary 9 , 1986 , while a comatose Derek apply onuntil the end of January .

Twenty - seven - yr - old David Rice was cop on December 26 after usinga bank card he ’d slip from the household — his only catch , aside from $ 14 in hard currency . looting had been one reasonhe’d entered the home . But he apparently had another need , which was something much more disturbing , and is the reasonableness this event has become so infamous .

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consort to the New York Times , Rice “ run across himself as an anti - Communist soldier and them as Communists , ” denying initial reports that he ’d aim the Goldmarks for being Jewish . He also claimed he did n’t realise youngster would be at the home , but once he ’d invaded , he decide , “ I ’m in it now . I have to go through with it . ”

As it happen , the Goldmarkswere neither Jewish nor Communists .

Charles Goldmark had beenlegal counsel to the Washington state Democratic Party , and had worked on Gary Hart ’s Presidential campaign . But the Communist matter had some historical context , though Rice represent it one hundred percent falsely . He ’d get a line of Charles Goldmark ’s family at a meeting of the “ Duck Club , ” which the New York Times described as a “ conservative political organization ; ” presently after the Goldmark murder , the founder of the Duck Club denied to the Timesthat the group ever preached any kind of violence or anti - Semitism . ( He did say , however , they were a staunchly anti - communistic mathematical group . )

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So why was the Duck Club babble about the Goldmarks , and why did Rice fixate on them?The New York Times explainedthe history :

In 1963 John Goldmark , begetter of Charles Goldmark , sued for libel after his calling as a member of the Washington Legislature was slue short by charges that he was a Communist . He acquire a $ 40,000 judgment . Sally Goldmark , his wife and Charles ’s female parent , was a Communist Party appendage for several eld in the 1930 ’s , it was unwrap at that time .

By 1985 , the clip of the Charles Goldmark family murders , the elder Goldmarks had already surpass away .

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Rice ’s test was obligate in the summertime of 1986 ; thoughhis legal sanity was called into question , he was convict offour counts of aggravate first - degree murderandsentenced to death . In 1998 , after anew penalty trialwas allot , his sentence was commuted to life in prison house without the possibility of parole , afterhe pled guiltyto the mission or else .

David Rice sits with his attorney Anthony Savage and Bill Lanning as his trial got underway in Seattle , May 13 , 1986 . ( AP Photo )

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