In this episode, Payton and Garrett explore the unsettling case of Yancy Noll, a man tragically gunned down at a stoplight. Was it a spontaneous act of road rage or a calculated, cold-blooded murder? NEW MERCH LINK: https://mwmhshop.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themwmh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murderwithmyhusband/ Discount Codes: https://mailchi.mp/c6f48670aeac/oh-no-media-discount-codes Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@murderwithmyhusband Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-dark/id1662304327 Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36SDVKB2MEWpFGVs9kRgQ7?si=f5224c9fd99542a7 Case Sources: CapitolHillSeattle.com- https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2015/01/yancy-noll-killer-sentenced-to-29-years-in-prison/ CBSNews.com - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yancy-noll-murder-road-rage-turned-deadly-or-thrill-kill/ SeattlePI.com - https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Shooter-in-random-Seattle-murder-gets-29-years-5990912.php KIRO7.com - https://www.kiro7.com/news/murder-suspect-i-shot-victim-self-defense/82074516/ CaseText.com - https://casetext.com/case/in-re-pers-restraint-of-bowman-1 Courts.WA.gov - https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/730690.pdf ParamountExpress.com - https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and-stations/shows/48-hours/releases/?view=45999-the-murder-of-a-seattle-wine-steward-driving-home-put-the-city-on-edge-was-it-road-rage-or-was-the-gunman-a-self-taught-killer-intent-on-finding-the-p SPDBlotter.com - https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2012/09/10/i-killed-yancy-noll-who-am-i/ Fox13Seattle.com - https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/man-found-guilty-of-2012-murder-juror-says-no-evidence-of-road-rage LATimes.com - https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-sep-24-la-na-nn-seattle-road-rage-20120924-story.html ThePourFool.com - https://thepourfool.com/2021/08/09/the-murder-of-yancy-noll-a-sense-of-senselessness-nine-years-on/ MyNorthwest.com - https://mynorthwest.com/16786/prosecutor-says-defendant-was-on-a-murder-quest-in-yancy-noll-killing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Yancy Noll?
They rang out from a traffic light at an intersection right at the corner of 15th Avenue and 75th Street. So, Witnesses then caught a glimpse of a silver BMW Z4 burn rubber and screech away from the scene.
That's the first problem. He's driving a silver Z4.
So our first eyewitnesses, Kevin Watts and Angelo Rama, heard the gunshots go off behind them in their rearview mirror. Then the next thing they know, that silver BMW with its top down and customized rims was racing through the red light past them into oncoming traffic. Und wenn du das siehst, weißt du, dass alles, was gerade passiert ist, ernsthaft war.
Ich meine, das ist eine Szene aus einem Film. Also diese zwei Ereignisse, Kevin und Angelo, sind die Bürger, die wir alle um uns herum wollen, weil sobald sie diese Waffen hören und dann dieses BMW über sie fliegt, They decide to hit the gas from 0 to 60 and try to keep up with this vehicle. They are going to follow him and stop him.
So he weaves in and out of traffic and is totally out of sight though within seconds. So Kevin and Angela, when they lose him, decide to go back to the scene and make sure everyone else is okay there. They're not even really sure what happened. And that's when they see a red Subaru still sitting at the green light against the curb.
And as they get out and approach the car, there's a lot of glass on the ground and a lot of blood. The driver inside still had both of his hands firmly gripped on the steering wheel. And he had four bullets in his head. And as you know, the victim was Yancey Knoll. Und wir haben noch ein Eingesicht, eine Frau namens Patricia Schulmeister, die auch nach dem Hören des Schussfeuers draußen kam.
Sie lebte tatsächlich direkt an der Kante dieses Intersektions. In Wahrheit, der fünfte Schuss, den Yancey verpasst hat, hat sich tatsächlich durch ihre Fenster geführt, durch eine Schale von Glas und in ihr Zuhause und dann durch eine Lampenfärbung und dann in eine Bilder, die sie hatte, hängend von ihren Katzen.
Oh mein Gott.
The bullet hit her picture of her cat. And by the time Patricia even found that bullet, police had already been called to the scene of the crime. Patricia came out, handed it to investigators. And right away, they could tell the make of the gun. A 9mm Glock pistol. But the first question police are asking is...
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Chapter 2: Who was the shooter and what was their background?
Chapter 3: What were the circumstances leading to the shooting?
And as they get out and approach the car, there's a lot of glass on the ground and a lot of blood. The driver inside still had both of his hands firmly gripped on the steering wheel. And he had four bullets in his head. And as you know, the victim was Yancey Knoll. Und wir haben noch ein Eingesicht, eine Frau namens Patricia Schulmeister, die auch nach dem Hören des Schussfeuers draußen kam.
Sie lebte tatsächlich direkt an der Kante dieses Intersektions. In Wahrheit, der fünfte Schuss, den Yancey verpasst hat, hat sich tatsächlich durch ihre Fenster geführt, durch eine Schale von Glas und in ihr Zuhause und dann durch eine Lampenfärbung und dann in eine Bilder, die sie hatte, hängend von ihren Katzen.
Oh mein Gott.
The bullet hit her picture of her cat. And by the time Patricia even found that bullet, police had already been called to the scene of the crime. Patricia came out, handed it to investigators. And right away, they could tell the make of the gun. A 9mm Glock pistol. But the first question police are asking is...
did anyone see what sparked this whole thing i mean we have someone who was just shot in the head four times in broad daylight was this a targeted hit on yancy noel or was this completely random so when they look into yancy's background they don't find a single shred of criminal history which kind of sort of ruled out anything gang or drug related to police but the one thing they find incredibly strange is
All of the glass in the street, it's not from Yancy's car because his windows are rolled down. It's from the shooter's car, which means the shooter from the driver's side shot through his passenger side window and into Yancy's car.
I am so curious where this goes.
But if you remember, the eyewitnesses said the BMW had his top down. So he has his top down, but his window's up. That's how he's rolling. But this is actually helpful to the police because not only do they have a description of the vehicle, they know they are looking for one with a broken passenger side window.
And later they find there were one or two witnesses who caught a pretty good glimpse of the driver himself. Sie sagten, dass der Mann in seinen 20er- oder 30er-Jahren gut gekleidet war, mit leckerem Haar und entweder weiß oder agentisch war. Nun, die Offiziere haben einen Künstler, der einen Sketch kompiliert hat, den sie dem Publikum ein paar Tage später veröffentlicht haben.
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Chapter 4: Was this a case of road rage or something more sinister?
He was overly cautious, he never showed signs of impulsive anger or recklessness, and that dent on his car was there long before that night. Sie sagen alle, es ist völlig unmöglich, dass Yancey jemals etwas physisch oder verbal mit einem Fremden anfangen würde. Er ist schmerzhaft und bemerkenswert. Er ist schmerzhaft und bemerkenswert. Er ist schmerzhaft und bemerkenswert.
Well, one week turns to two, and the police are receiving hundreds of tips from people throughout Seattle. Because apparently, silver BMW Z4s with custom rims are very popular at the time, but none of those leads evolve into anything of note.
2012.
Yeah, I'm just trying to get a good picture of that Z4 in my head.
So they can't come up with anything. There's just this hit and run that led to a guy being dead. Until September 14th. That day, a woman calls the police with an anonymous tip after seeing the sketch. She says that she thinks the driver is a man that lives less than 10 blocks from where the shooting took place. Sie sagt, ich kenne seinen Namen. Es ist Thomas Dinn Bowman.
Und wenn die Polizei seinen Lizenz abnimmt, passt seine Foto zu diesem Schild ziemlich gut. Wie ihr wisst, bin ich nicht normalerweise in den Hintergrund eines Verbrechers, solange es nicht zu der Geschichte ist, die ich in diesem Fall, denke ich, wichtig ist, zu erwähnen. Also Dinn, als er herübergeht, also sein Name ist Thomas, aber er herübergeht Dinn.
wasn't exactly someone who lived under the radar. Back in 1996, he had a featured story written about him in the Seattle Times because he was, quote, a child prodigy. Oh. Hmm.
Ich habe immer... Nein, egal. Ich habe immer nur Fencing so interessant gefunden.
Hast du den Parent Trap gesehen?
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Chapter 5: What evidence did the police find in the investigation?
Now from the outside looking in, they seemed to be on a great path. They appeared to be madly in love, and both of them had a promising future. Maybe even an early retirement, if all went as planned. That is, if Din stayed out of trouble. See, Din actually had a run-in with the law a year before he met Jennifer, so back in 2006. That year he was charged with burglary and first degree theft.
And while I'm unclear of what the circumstances were, I know he was later acquitted of the charges. So it was only a matter of time, though, before Jennifer found herself pulled into her new husband's chaotic lifestyle. So now fast forward to 2012. After the anonymous tip comes in, police set up a stakeout of Dens home. They don't immediately go to him, just to make sure they had the right guy.
And after almost a week of watching the house, they find zero signs of that BMW coming or going. That is until day seven, when the garage door opens one afternoon. Just quick enough for police to catch a glimpse of what's inside. The silver BMW. Now that they knew Din had owned that car, they were able to secure a search warrant.
That same day, on September 21st, they knocked on the Bowman's front door. Warrant in hand. Of course, they make a beeline for the garage. One of the first things they needed to do was inspect the BMW. And when they opened the passenger side door, they found there were still tiny pieces of glass on the interior there. And that the window had definitely been replaced recently.
And not to mention, the garage reeks of paint. And the custom silver rims of his car, which had been listed as an identifying feature of this vehicle, had now been painted black. So, within hours. It's not just a search warrant police are after. They now have an arrest warrant too.
It just seems like it's going to be open and shut. So, I don't know.
Thomas Dinn-Bowman ist am selben Tag in Handschuhen, während seine Frau Jennifer auch an die Station gerufen wird, um sich zu fragen. Dinn hält für Stunden, auf Wartezeit, bis die Polizei endlich kommt und ihn interrogiert. Aber in der Zwischenzeit schafft die Fotos ihn alleine dort.
Und alles, was ich sagen muss, und manchmal sehen wir das in der Interrogationsfotografie passieren, der Typ sieht nicht zu stressig aus für jemanden, der gerade als Verbrecher von Mordschulden eingestellt wurde.
I don't know the rules around it. Because obviously they hold them for hours on purpose, right?
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Chapter 6: How did the investigation unfold after the shooting?
He's not free to leave because they have the arrest warrant.
Okay, got it. Because it's also, that makes sense. Because sometimes the lawyers will come in and they'll be like, hey, we're going home.
Yes, that's because there's no warrant for an arrest.
Got it, okay.
So this guy is drinking coffee. He's eating snacks. In fact, he looks frustrated with how long he has to sit there and wait. At one point, he even tells an officer he's annoyed with how long this is all taking, which you think this guy would be on his best behavior in a situation like this, especially if he's innocent and hoping to get out. He'd be like, hey, what's going on?
Like, I didn't do this instead of being like, can we just get this over with?
Yeah.
Ich werde sagen, Gerrit und ich waren in einem Flughafen eine Woche zuvor. Und ich konnte nicht mal Snacks essen, weil ich so bereit war, auf dem Flugzeug zu kommen, der verlassen wurde. Also ich weiß nicht, wie dieser Typ isst und chillt, nachdem er so lange da war.
Das ist wahr.
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Chapter 7: What role did Jennifer Palm play in the case?
Seine Klamotten sitzen auf der Flur ihres Wohnraums, alles was ein bisschen seltsam und verwirrend ist für die Polizei, besonders wenn Jennifer etwa 250.000 Dollar pro Jahr alleine verdient. But the devil is in the details, right? And there are some pretty bizarre details in the kitchen that set off alarm bells for detectives.
Like a few post-it notes that have been left around, written from Jennifer to Din. One specifically that reads, quote, To the best shooter in the wild, wild west. Bang, bang, XXOO.
You're lying. There is no way. Es gibt keine Art und Weise, dass wir das tun. Das ist so krass. Das schlägt meinen Kopf.
Richtig. Bang Bang. Bang Bang. Das ist verrückt. Der beste Schütze. Das ist verrückt. Verstehen Sie den Polizisten und die Detektivs, die da laufen und den Post-It-Knopf auf dem Friseur sehen. Und sie sind da, auf Überraschung, dass dieser Kerl jemanden viermal random erschossen hat. Das ist tatsächlich so krass. Und es sagt dem besten Schütze im Wilden Westen Bang Bang.
Okay.
So, not only does this suggest that Jennifer, if this note is about the murder, then Jennifer knows something about the shooting.
Never mind.
But if this note is also about the shooting, she seems to be encouraging it, like making fun of it, joking about it. I'm not done.
I was going to say, there's only one thing they could say, there's only one excuse they could try to put it on, and I just don't think that would work. You know what I'm saying?
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