“After completing his murder, the defendant takes possession of the victim’s vehicle and anything inside the vehicle, and is seen driving that vehicle in the hours/days after the victim is missing.” O’Ban wrote in court filings earlier this month. “efendant Richard Bradley has a common scheme: he tells an individual that he needs their help digging up gold, lures them out to a wooded area, alone with him, murders them, and buries/leaves their body deep in the park,” King County Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Thomas C. Now, he faces murder charges in the deaths of three more people, including Emilio Maturin, 26 Michael Goeman,59 and his son Vance Lakey, 31, after Auburn detectives recovered three rib bones near Blake’s body.
King County prosecutors initially arrested and charged Richard Bradley Jr., 40, in May 2021 with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the murder of Brandi Blake, 44. A Washington state serial killer suspect is accused of luring at least four victims to their deaths after asking them to help him dig up “buried gold.”
