The Murders of Renae and Shannah Wicklund and Barbara Hendrickson

Lori Johnston
17 min readMay 28, 2020

Renae Wicklund was 23 years old in December of 1974, married not quite three years and a devoted mother to her nearly two-year-old daughter, Shannah. The Wicklund family, which included Renae’s husband and Shannah’s father Jack, lived in Clearview, Washington, a community about half an hour northeast of Seattle, nestled between Woodinville and Snohomish. Although the Seattle area had been devastated through more than half of 1974 by missing and murdered women (crimes eventually attributed to Ted Bundy), crime had not touched the small hamlet of…

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Lori Johnston

Writer, reader, margarita drinker. Currently looking for a “dare to be great” situation.