A 51-year-old cold case involving the deaths of three women - including two who were pregnant - has finally been solved.
But just as Spokane County investigators were preparing to arrest suspect Duke Pierson, 85, they discovered he had died of natural causes - and just three days prior.
It is a devastating end to the stories of Dorothy Fielding, Rudy Lampson, and Pierson's wife Sandra, who were all killed within three months of each other.
On Friday detectives charged Pierson - a former Spokane County Sheriff's deputy with first-degree murder in the death of Fielding and planned to arrest him at his Alabama home.
But when investigators ran a search on Pierson online, they discovered that he had died on January 22.
Washington police finally solved a 51-year-old cold case involving the deaths of three women. But three days before they were to arrest suspect Duke Pierson (pictured when he was a deputy for the Spokane Sheriff's Office), he died of natural causes
The tragic tale surrounding Pierson's three victims begins in the summer of 1967, when Lampson, 47, was reported missing in June.
Lampson lived above the Falls View Tavern, where she was a regular. She had last been seen leaving the bar on June 6 with a 'much younger male'.
Her body was found four years later in a shallow grave near the 7-Mile ORV park.
The location was just 1.8 miles away from where investigators found the body of Fielding, who had disappeared just two months after Lampson, in 1968.
Fielding worked at Rosauers Supermarkets, where Pierson had taken a security supervisor job after mysteriously leaving the Spokane County Sheriff's Office in 1966.
Some co-workers were surprised by Pierson's resignation, while others believed he had been allowed to resign after he stopped showing up for work.
'Duke Pierson was clearly mentally unstable,' one former co-worker told investigators.
On Friday detectives charged Pierson with the murder of Dorothy Fielding (left), who he was having an affair with when she disappeared in 1967. They also suspect Pierson was involved in the death of his wife Sandra (right), who was found death a month after Pierson disappeared
Pierson had met Fleming after he was allowed to resign from his deputy position at the Spokane Sheriff's Office. Co-workers said he was 'clearly mentally unstable'. He is pictured here in 1960, six years before he resigned
'For some time after, he and other Sheriff's employees openly voiced concerns about Duke Pierson harming himself or others.'
Co-workers said that Pierson would threaten to shoot or kill them when they called him and asked why he wasn't coming into work.
He also reportedly made paranoid statements and believed people in the agency were 'out to get him'.
Fielding, 31, and Pierson started having an affair in February 1967 after they met at Rosauers.
Pierson was separated from his wife Sandra at the time and living in an apartment close to Falls View Tavern, where Lampson had disappeared from.
But the married couple reconciled after going to Hawaii together, and Pierson admitted to Sandra's cousin that he had gotten his Fielding pregnant.
Pierson told the relative he was in a 'bind' because he wanted to fix his marriage with Sandra.
A week before her disappearance, Fielding began receiving flowers and notes in her car from a 'secret admirer' who confessed his love to her.
The flowers were Marigolds and Zinnias, which Sandra grew in her yard, and red and pink roses, which Sandra's mother grew and often brought to her daughter's home.
Fielding told friends that the notes and flowers scared her. She disappeared days later on August 19. Witnesses believe she was 20 weeks pregnant at the time.
Pierson is also suspected to be behind the death of Ruby Lampson (pictured), who disappeared a month before Fielding. Their bodies were buried less than 2 miles away from each other
Days after she disappeared, Fielding's car was found at a local grocery store. There were fresh cigarette butts in the ash tray, despite the fact that Fielding didn't smoke.
In April 2018, while he was being interviewed by Spokane Detective Kirk Keyser, Pierson admitted he smoked cigarettes during the time frame of the murders.
He also admitted to dating Fielding until the time of her disappearance but claimed she had never told him she was pregnant.
Pierson also told Keyser that she had told him about the notes she was getting in her car and said she was 'proud of them'.
Eight months after she disappeared, Fielding's body was found in a shallow grave near the 7-Mile ORV Park. She was buried with her uniform and name tag.
Pierson's wife Sandra, 33, was found dead in their home on September 12, 1967, less than a month after Fielding disappeared. She was 20 weeks pregnant at the time.
Her body was found in the rear seat of a car inside the family's garage with a hose leading from the exhaust to a rear window of the vehicle. The ignition was on.
Tinfoil had been stuffed inside the exhaust pipe and around the house. Investigators at the time ruled that her death was a suicide.
Sandra's grandmother had seen her just 45 minutes prior and said she had shown no signs of distress.
And Sandra's children believed there was no way their mother, who was 5ft 2in and 115 pounds, could have closed their malfunctioning garage door on her own.
Just months after Sandra's death, Pierson married a woman he had been dating on and off since 1964.
The woman told Keyser in a recent interview that, before the pair tied the knot, Pierson would talk about a girl from his work who went missing and 'kind of laugh about it'. He later admitted he had known the girl.
Before they got married, Pierson would also talk of wanting to get back together with Sandra and claimed she had fallen pregnant with another man's child.
Pierson admitted to Sandra's cousin that he had gotten his Fielding (left) pregnant. Both Fielding and Sandra (right) were 20 weeks pregnant at the time of their deaths
The woman told Keyser that everything changed in their relationship she moved into Pierson's home, where Sandra had died months before.
'She was unable to go anywhere or do anything without Duke's permission,' Keyser wrote in court doucments. 'Duke became both physically and verbally abusive to her.'
The woman called Pierson 'Jekyll and Hyde', saying he would turn angry and use violence to make her perform sexual acts. At time he also choked her.
'If I am done with you, I am done with you, but nobody else will have you,' Pierson once told her.
He also told the woman that if she ever tried to leave him he would 'make sure she didn't wake up. She wouldn't hurt, but she would be done'.
The woman also became suspicious of Sandra's death, telling Keyser that she did not believe Sandra would have been capable of moving the heavy garage door.
She also reveled that Pierson was involved in hypnotism and would 'regularly use her as a student to practice'.
Another woman who was married to Pierson (pictured in 1960) said he would turn angry and use violence to make her perform sexual acts. At time he also choked her
'She said he was very good at it,' Keyser noted. 'He could place her under hypnosis and have her do things she normally could not physically do, or would not be willing to do, sometimes the next day.'
The couple's problems worsened and they eventually separated. The woman filed a restraining order and said Pierson began leaving notes on her car that said things like 'I saw you...'.
The woman said Pierson's threats became increasingly violent. He told her something bad could happen to her horses if she didn't move further away from him, and even tried to pick up her younger sister from high school.
She moved further away from Pierson and the couple officially divorced in 1972.
Pierson's son described him as a 'narcissist who is a very scary guy' who once told someone that he 'did not know if he would be able to restrain himself from killing' his own son.
His children eventually cut off all contact with him.
Pierson pleaded guilty to helping smuggle drugs from La Paz, Bolivia to the US in a $15million cocaine ring from 1973 to 1974. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
The cold case into Pierson opened up against after someone called inquiring Fielding's murder investigation.
Keyser then discovered that Pierson was now living in Alabama and was married yet again.
During their April 2018 interview, Pierson said he would remember if he had killed anyone.
'If I had done anything bad like that, I'm sure that would have stayed in my memory,' he said. 'There's just no way I have ever done hurt anybody. I don't hurt people.'
Keyser wrote on the Spokane County Sheriff's Office Facebook that he is continuing to investigate all three deaths.
He is asking that anyone who dated Pierson or knew him, Sandra, Fielding, or Lampson around the time of their deaths call him at 509-477-6611.
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But just as Spokane County investigators were preparing to arrest suspect Duke Pierson, 85, they discovered he had died of natural causes – and just three ...
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