HISTORIC MURDERS OF PORTLAND: Murder on a Houseboat
ANOTHER FRESH VIDEO PREMIERING TOMORROW (SUNDAY) AT 12 NOON! Usually I post earlier but I know y'all like that whole sleeping in thing on the weekend. But this episode of Historic Murders of Portland was a fun one from the chaos of the story involved, where the real story isn't going to be fully known till the very end, to the chaos of trying to make the video. You get to see my hair change drastically as the area I wanted to film was blocked off when I first started shooting and then my phone died. Thus I came back like a month later to finish the video when the Eastbank Esplenade was opened back up.
This video chronicles the story of a young woman named Helen Leary who, in 1922, worked in a restaurant in that industrial area just east side of the Willamette River from downtown. While working there she met a man in his 60s named Cash Weir who was a man of the sea who lived on a houseboat near where the Morrison Bridge crosses the Willamette. Cash then introduced Helen to his son Earl and a romance quickly blossomed, but was then thrown in to disarray when, as Helen put it, in September (1922) she went to visit Earl on Cash's houseboat and instead witnessed, through a hole in the boat, Cash brutally murder a teenage girl who then, with the help of Earl, he managed to dispose of the body. This story wouldn't come to the police's attention till around Christmas time as Helen had reportedly been held captive for some three months on Weir's houseboat out of fear that she would report what happened.
But this is all just the groundwork for what would turn out to be a bizarre couple of days in December, 1922 as the authorities tried to piece together all that happened. Check out the video to get the full story!
This video chronicles the story of a young woman named Helen Leary who, in 1922, worked in a restaurant in that industrial area just east side of the Willamette River from downtown. While working there she met a man in his 60s named Cash Weir who was a man of the sea who lived on a houseboat near where the Morrison Bridge crosses the Willamette. Cash then introduced Helen to his son Earl and a romance quickly blossomed, but was then thrown in to disarray when, as Helen put it, in September (1922) she went to visit Earl on Cash's houseboat and instead witnessed, through a hole in the boat, Cash brutally murder a teenage girl who then, with the help of Earl, he managed to dispose of the body. This story wouldn't come to the police's attention till around Christmas time as Helen had reportedly been held captive for some three months on Weir's houseboat out of fear that she would report what happened.
But this is all just the groundwork for what would turn out to be a bizarre couple of days in December, 1922 as the authorities tried to piece together all that happened. Check out the video to get the full story!
Comments
Post a Comment