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Police believed they solved a decades-long murder mystery last week, but when they went to arrest the suspect they learned he had died days before.
Former Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy Duke J. Pierson was under investigation for the cold case deaths of three women, including the murder of Dorothy Fielding in 1967. On Friday, detectives were granted an arrest warrant for the 85-year-old, with charges of first-degree murder, but Pierson died three days before on Jan. 22 at his Alabama home, reportedly due to natural causes, according to a statement released by the department on Monday.
Prior to his death, in an April 2018 interview with police, Pierson denied killing Fielding.
In September 1967, 33-year-old Sandra Pierson, the suspect’s pregnant wife at the time, died in what was initially ruled a suicide, though the victim’s children believe their father was involved in their mom’s death.