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Rachel Rose Burkheimer

Behind the Story

Jun 8 2004

A Different Approach to a Murder Trial

By Jesse Tarbert

On Sept. 23, 2002, 18-year-old Rachel Rose Burkheimer was murdered by a group of men and buried in a field in the foothills of the Cascade mountains, east of Everett, Wash. In the months since, the grisly details of the murder have been covered extensively in area newspapers.

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