When Smith returned to the front area, he ordered the women to take off all their clothes and forced them into the bathroom. Pauley kept his gun pointed at everyone in the front area. Smith then took Loran to the back kitchen area and that would the last time Maggie would see her husband alive.

Smith and Pauley began pulling out all the electrical wires, phone cords, anything they could use to tie everyone up. Loran Dowell (Courtesy of the Dowell family) They asked where the money was and Loran told them it was on the bar's counter. They forced their way inside and ordered everyone onto the floor face down. Upon opening the door, Smith put a knife to Loran's side and Pauley put a gun to his head. They knocked on the door and called out Loran's name to get him to open the door. Now the families fear that Pauley, who has been described as a 'master manipulator' may be set free.Īccording to the victim's daughter Kelley Dowell Tarp, her mother Margaret (Maggie) Dowell played a video game with Smith on that fateful night, while Sherri Beckham, who worked at the bar, talked with Pauley during her break.Īfter the bar closed, Smith and Pauley returned to the tavern. Pauley has spent the past 38 years in prison for the crime and has failed to meet the terms for release at multiple parole hearings. On June 12, 1980, Timothy Pauley and Scott Carl Smith robbed the Barn Door Tavern in SeaTac, Washington and attempted to leave no witnesses, killing two men and one woman.

A family is pleading that the convicted murderer of their father, Loran Dowell, remain behind bars, stating that he is too dangerous to be released at his next parole hearing before Washington’s Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board on Wednesday.

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