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Jun 1, 2024 · On the afternoon of November 24, 1989, Amanda Stavik AKA Mandy disappeared, and her body was discovered three days later in the Nooksack River. For many years, no arrests were made in connection with her murder. However, in December 2017, a man named Timothy Bass was arrested and charged with Mandy’s murder.
Jul 3, 2019 · The Bellingham Herald reports Judge Robert Olson sentenced 51-year-old Timothy Bass of Everson Tuesday in Mandy Stavik's death. A jury found Bass guilty of murder May 24 after a three-week trial, as well as guilty of special verdicts for rape, attempted rape, kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.
Jul 16, 2020 · Anderson said a man named Tim Bass, another Mount Baker graduate, who was a friend of her husband, stopped by her house one night a couple years after Stavik's death, and knocked on the door....
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Timothy Bass, 51, was sentenced to serve 27 years in prison on July 2, 2019 in the cold case murder of 18-year-old Mandy Stavik in 1989. Bass was free for 28 years before he was caught. He spoke...
- November 27, 1989
- A New Look at The Case
- "Jackpot"
- The Case Against Tim Bass
- A Jury Decides
Peter Van Sant: So, take me back. It's November 27, 1989. Where are we right now? Det. Ron Peterson: We're upstream from where I recovered her. Peter Van Sant: It's a solemn place for you isn't it? Det. Ron Peterson: It is. Back then, Detective Ron Peterson led the search team for Mandy Stavik, moving upriver in a Zodiac boat. Det. Ron Peterson: We...
Mary Stavik spent years haunted by the murder of her daughter Mandy, and the lack of progress in the case. Mary Stavik: I just really didn't have any hope … that became more ingrained in me as the years went on. But Detective Kevin Bowhay, who attended the same high school as Mandy, had never given up. By 2009, he was the lead investigator on this ...
Twenty-four long years had passed without an arrest, and police finally had a prime suspect. Back in 1989, Tim Bass lived down the road from Mandy Stavik and she often jogged past his house on her regular running route—which is how he fixated on her, police believe. Peter Van Sant: If Tim Bass … sitting in his home was lookin' out the window, could...
For prosecutor Dave McEachran, it's been a long road to justice. Dave McEachran[emotional]: She was such a good kid — it just shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened at all. McEachran was 44 when Mandy Stavik was murdered. And now, at 73, he's come out of retirement and insisted he not be paid as he leads the prosecution team in this de...
As the jury in the Mandy Stavik case deliberated, the hours felt like an eternity. Molly Brighton: I was terrified. I was — "every juror, please do the right thing. Do the right thing, do the right thing." Mary Stavik: They have to have 100% agreement. If one person doesn't agree, you've got a hung jury and they have to start all over again. And I ...
- Correspondent, "48 Hours
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- CBS News
Dec 18, 2018 · The investigators had come once before in 2013, asking about a delivery truck driver named Timothy Bass. Strangely, they had wanted to know details of his daily routes decades ago. Now, four...
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May 24, 2019 · BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- A jury on Friday found Timothy Bass guilty of killing Mandy Stavik in 1989, bringing closure to the 30-year-old cold case. Stavik vanished just after Thanksgiving 1989 while jogging near her home in Acme, east of Bellingham.
