Donna Perry

Victims
3 murders convicted: Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe and Kathleen Brisbois, shot in Spokane, Washington, in 1990; convicted in 2017 after a DNA match.
Years active
February to May 1990 (bodies found February 22, March 25 and May 15, 1990)
Location
Spokane and Spokane Valley, Washington (East Sprague Avenue area and the banks of the Spokane River)
Method
Each woman was shot with a small-caliber gun (.22 caliber, according to police in 2012); Kathleen Brisbois was also beaten.
Status
Three consecutive terms of life without parole, July 24, 2017; affirmed 2020. Held at the Washington Corrections Center for Women as of October 2026.

In the spring of 1990, three women who worked the streets of East Sprague Avenue in Spokane, Washington, were found shot on the banks of the Spokane River, within about three months of one another. Yolanda Sapp was 26, Nickie Lowe was 34 and Kathleen Brisbois was 38. They knew each other. Police saw a pattern and suspected one killer, but no one was charged, and when Robert L. Yates Jr. was later caught for a long series of killings of women in Spokane, records showed he had been in Germany with the U.S. Army when these three women died.

The cases stayed open for more than two decades. In 2012 federal agents arrested a 60-year-old Spokane woman named Donna Perry for having guns and ammunition she was barred from owning. Perry had been known as Douglas Perry until she had gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2000. After her federal conviction her DNA went into a national database, and it matched blood found under Kathleen Brisbois's fingernail. In 2017 a Spokane County jury convicted Perry of all three murders, and she was sentenced to life without parole. The Washington Court of Appeals upheld the convictions in 2020.

The killings took place while Perry lived as a man named Douglas Perry. The Washington Court of Appeals, in its 2020 opinion, used masculine pronouns for Perry before 2000 and feminine pronouns after the surgery, and said it did so for clarity. This account follows the court's approach. Where witnesses are quoted, their own words are kept.

Douglas Perry before 1990

Little about Perry's early life has been published in reliable sources. In the 2012 police interview later played at trial, Perry spoke of a troubled youth and said that at times Perry had wanted to die. Perry later described being paranoid and emotional.

The criminal record is better documented. According to court records reported by The Spokesman-Review, Douglas Perry was convicted of reckless endangerment in 1987 and of assault in 1988, both in Okanogan County, Washington. A pre-sentencing report prepared in 2017 also listed a 1986 confrontation in which Perry shot a neighbor's dog. In 1988 federal agents arrested him for having a pipe bomb; searches found 49 guns, among them a .22-caliber handgun and two .22-caliber rifles, and large amounts of ammunition. The Spokesman-Review put the ammunition at 20,000 rounds; a KXLY report in 2012 gave 49,000. The guns seized in 1988 were later disposed of by the police property room, in August 1995.

In August 1989 Spokane police arrested him for patronizing a prostitute. By then he was a felon who collected guns, prosecutors would later say, and he spent time along East Sprague Avenue, the stretch of Spokane's skid row where women worked as prostitutes. In 1990 he lived with a woman named Clairann Gallaway, who worked as a prostitute and knew all three victims. She later died in Los Angeles.

Yolanda Sapp

Yolanda A. Sapp was 26. She had a daughter, Natasha, who was so young when her mother died that she later told a court she could not remember her. Yolanda's family lived for years with the fear that whoever had killed her might come for them too, a relative, Marika Sapp, said in 2017. Investigators at first named her common-law husband as a suspect, The Spokesman-Review reported.

On the morning of February 22, 1990, Yolanda Sapp was found on the north bank of the Spokane River in the 4100 block of East Upriver Drive, in northeast Spokane. She had been shot three times in the back with a small-caliber gun and was naked except for her jewelry. Her clothes were never found. Near her body lay a blanket with a flower print.

Nickie Lowe

Nickie I. Lowe was 34. She was married, and investigators at first named her husband, too, as a suspect. By 2017 her niece, Chilesa Patzer, described herself as Nickie's last living relative.

Nickie Lowe was found on the morning of March 25, 1990, under the Greene Street Bridge in the 3200 block of East South Riverton. She had been shot once in the chest with a .22-caliber gun. Her tennis shoes and her billfold were missing. That same morning her shoes and red billfold were found in a dumpster on South Riverton, more than a mile from her body, together with a tube of lubricating jelly that prosecutors later said was hers. Fingerprints were lifted from the tube. They would not be matched to anyone for 22 years.

Kathleen Brisbois

Kathleen A. Brisbois, known as Kathy, was 38 and a mother. Her oldest daughter, Kaishea Kegley, told the court in 2017 that she had lost the person who loved her most in the world. A friend of all three women, Tabitha Mora, saw Kathy about a week before her death and remembered her talking proudly about how beautiful her children were and saying that she wanted to change her life. Kathy came from a large family, many of whom wore T-shirts in her honor at the sentencing.

On May 15, 1990, she was found four or five feet down an embankment on the west side of the Spokane River near Trent Avenue and Pines Road in Spokane Valley. She had been beaten and shot three times at close range. Her clothing was scattered nearby. She had fought her attacker, and blood was recovered from under her fingernail. Her daughter would later thank her for that fight, saying it was what made the case possible.

The first investigation

The Spokane Police Department and the Spokane County Sheriff's Office ran a joint investigation. The three women had known one another and, The Spokesman-Review later reported, had lived at the same motel off East Sprague Avenue. All three had been shot with a small-caliber handgun, and the bodies had been left by the river. Detectives collected evidence but, the police department said in 2013, did not have enough at the time to arrest anyone.

Investigators considered several suspects. Among them were Lowe's husband and Sapp's common-law husband, and later Robert Yates, who in 2000 pleaded guilty to killing 13 women in Spokane County, most of whom had worked on East Sprague Avenue. For a time the three 1990 deaths were counted among the killings that might be his. The Court of Appeals noted that police briefly considered the Green River killer as well. Yates was ruled out: records showed he was serving in the U.S. Army in Germany when the three women died. By the mid-1990s the investigation had gone cold.

Some evidence was lost. Much of the evidence in the Sapp case was accidentally incinerated, a Spokane police sergeant, Kip Hollenbeck, explained to the jury in 2017. The flower-print blanket found near her body survived.

Douglas Perry in the 1990s

Douglas Perry was not a suspect in those years, but he remained known to the police. In 1994 federal agents arrested him again for having firearms. A search of his house on East Dalton Avenue in Spokane turned up 33 guns, three of them .22-caliber rifles or pistols, among them a Ruger 10/22 rifle. Perry had also bought two .22 pistols in the 1970s, one of them an Iver Johnson, which was never seized. A firearms expert later testified that the bullets recovered from Nickie Lowe and Kathleen Brisbois could have been fired by either a Ruger 10/22 or that Iver Johnson pistol.

Perry served time in an Oregon prison in the late 1990s. In 1998 a criminal investigator passed on what inmates there had told prison staff in 1997: that Perry talked to other prisoners about taking prostitutes home and feeding them, acted strangely and might be involved in prostitute murders. The tip did not lead to charges.

Also in 1998, a woman who worked as a prostitute told police about what she called her creepiest date, at Perry's home on East Empire Avenue in Spokane, which held mannequins, crossbows and other weapons. She said Perry would not hurt her because Perry liked her. When police stopped Perry, they found knives, a stun gun and papers about gender reassignment surgery. A second traffic stop that year, at 1:30 in the morning, turned up another knife and stun gun.

The surgery

Early in 2000 Douglas Perry traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, and had gender reassignment surgery. From then on Perry lived as Donna Perry, and she later legally changed her name and gender. In interviews with detectives she gave two reasons for the surgery: that she felt more comfortable as a woman, and that she meant it as a permanent way to control her violence, believing that women are less violent than men.

The timing would become a central point at trial. Prosecutors argued that Perry had the surgery partly to avoid suspicion in the killings, and the deputy prosecutor told the jury in her closing argument that Perry had "gelded herself like you would a farm animal." Perry's own words, as recounted by witnesses, were similar. Charlotte Nagrone, a former employee of the state Department of Social and Health Services who befriended Perry in 2007 and 2008, testified that Perry spoke of her "gun-running days" and of shooting people, said that life had been out of control before the surgery, and told her, "I got gelded just like a horse and got my life back under control."

In 2005 the cases were handed to two detectives, Mark Burbridge of the Spokane Police Department, who took the Sapp and Lowe cases, and James Dresback of the Sheriff's Office, who took Brisbois. Dresback sent evidence to the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory to look for a suspect's DNA. The evidence was submitted for testing in 2008, according to the Court of Appeals, and in 2009 the lab developed a full male DNA profile from the blood under Kathleen Brisbois's fingernail. It was entered into the Combined DNA Index System, the national database known as CODIS. It matched no one.

The 2012 arrest

On March 14, 2012, a retired detective saw Donna Perry buying ammunition and a pistol magazine at a White Elephant store in Spokane Valley. As a felon, Perry was barred from having firearms. Agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested her and searched her home on East Empire Avenue. They seized 12 firearms, among them a second Ruger 10/22 rifle, and about 12,000 rounds of ammunition. All of the guns had been made in 1997 or later, so none could have been used in 1990.

In a bedroom closet that had been painted shut, ATF Special Agent Todd Smith found boxes of old women's underwear, too small for Perry, which he thought looked like "trophies," according to court records. Police reports from 1990 did not record any underwear missing from the three crime scenes, and no link between the items and the victims was ever shown.

Perry was convicted in federal court in 2012 of being a felon in possession of a firearm and held at the federal prison at Carswell, near Fort Worth, Texas. Under state law her DNA was collected and entered into CODIS.

The match

On September 14, 2012, a technician at the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory found that Perry's DNA profile matched the male profile from Kathleen Brisbois's fingernail. The detectives then went back to the other cases. On October 12, 2012, the fingerprints on the tube of lubricating jelly from the Lowe case were matched to Douglas Perry's index and middle fingers. DNA on the flower-print blanket near Yolanda Sapp was later found to be a weaker, partial match to Perry.

On October 17, 2012, Perry was moved from federal custody to the Spokane County Jail. A further search of Perry's home in November 2012 produced women's underwear, a bra and a piece of mattress, sheriff's Deputy Craig Chamberlin said. On November 20, 2012, the police and the Sheriff's Office announced that Perry was a person of interest in the three deaths and appealed for anyone who had known the women, or had dealt with Douglas Perry in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially anyone who had bought a gun from him, to come forward.

The interview

On November 15, 2012, Burbridge and Dresback questioned Perry at the Spokane County Jail, where she was being held as a federal detainee. The recording, about two and a half hours long, was played for the jury in 2017.

At the start Perry said twice that she thought she should have a lawyer. The detectives stopped questioning her, read her rights and served a search warrant for her DNA. After she said she wanted to talk, she signed a waiver and the interview went on. Dresback worked to build her trust; Burbridge took a harder line, and between them they told her more than 60 times that she was lying. They showed her photographs of about a dozen women who had worked as prostitutes in 1990, including the three victims and Clairann Gallaway.

Perry denied knowing the women and denied killing anyone. "I did pick up some prostitutes, yes," she said. Asked how her DNA could be on two of the women, she said she did not know and suggested it might have come from a date. When Burbridge said that serial killers generally do not stop, Perry answered that Douglas had not stopped; Donna had stopped it, through the gender change operation. "I'm not going to admit I killed anybody, I didn't. Donna has killed nobody," she said. When Burbridge pressed that Doug had done it, she replied: "I don't know if Doug did or not. It was 20 years ago and I have no idea whether he did or didn't." She said she did not like guns but sought them out because of paranoia, and she cried and shouted that she had not killed anyone.

The cellmate

In federal prison in Texas, Perry shared quarters for about six weeks with another inmate, Chero Everson, who was serving time for drug dealing. (The Spokesman-Review also reported her name as Chero Fread.) Everson told her mother what Perry was saying, her mother contacted law enforcement, and Everson began keeping a journal. On June 19, 2013, Burbridge and Dresback interviewed her.

Her account, given at trial, was that Perry claimed to have killed at least nine prostitutes, later raising the figure to as many as 20 to 30 people; described the women as worthless, as "nobodies" and "pond scum," and as wasting their ability to have children; said she chose her targets, studied them, killed them in a vehicle near a river and pushed the bodies out; claimed to have been a contract killer; and said living as an elderly woman was a disguise that would keep her from being caught. Everson also said Perry told her the police had destroyed some of the guns used in the killings. She testified that she had been promised nothing.

Charges

On October 31, 2013, the Spokane Police Department announced that its detectives and the Sheriff's Office had forwarded charges of first-degree murder against Perry to the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office. Perry, then 61, was still in federal prison in Texas. Prosecutors filed three counts of premeditated first-degree murder in January 2014, each with the aggravating circumstance that the murder was part of a common scheme or plan involving more than one victim.

Deputies flew Perry back to Spokane in 2014. On the flight, Deputy Jennifer Sutter testified, Perry said that by the time she had learned to control herself it was too late, that this would be her last time outside concrete walls, and, by the court's account, "I'm never going to get out of this." In March 2014 Perry refused to attend a bond hearing, then came to court voluntarily the next day, when bond was set at 1 million dollars. A brother of one victim who attended said that seeing Perry in court gave him a sense of closure. On April 3, 2014, Perry pleaded not guilty.

Delays

The trial was first set for September 2016, but in 2016 Perry's three public defenders, Kyle Zeller, Nathan Poston and Brooke Hagara, withdrew after learning that investigators in their office may have acted unethically while trying to get information about the case. Hagara described the episode in a complaint she filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in July 2016. New lawyers, Bryan Whitaker and Pat Donahue, were appointed.

Before trial the defense asked the court to try each killing separately, arguing that the evidence differed from count to count. The trial court refused. In April before the trial, Judge Michael Price also refused to let the defense present evidence that it said pointed to other suspects, calling it "speculative." The trial court found that Perry's statements to the detectives were voluntary and could be used. Judge Price allowed prosecutors to show at least two photographs of victims that also showed a child, saying he would prefer no child in the pictures but that the two he had seen were not unfairly prejudicial.

The trial

The trial opened in Spokane County Superior Court on June 5, 2017, with Judge Price presiding; 385 prospective jurors were called for jury selection. The deputy prosecutor, Sharon Hedlund, said the case rested on Perry's "hatred of women who made bad choices," and that the fact the victims were mothers was part of why they were chosen. Whitaker answered that the state's theory of motive depended on "hearsay testimony by a single witness." Perry, who had asked for a hearing aid so she could follow the testimony, sat through the trial with headphones on, writing on a legal pad.

The first week was given over to the 1990 investigation: retired detectives described processing the scenes and months of work that ended without a suspect, and jurors heard how evidence had been lost and about earlier gun seizures unconnected to the killings. On June 20 a deputy prosecutor, Rachel Curtis, called fingerprint examiners who described the match on the lubricant tube. Julie Brownfield, who had worked in the Sheriff's Office forensic unit for nearly 35 years, explained how fragile such evidence is: "A whole lot has to happen right," she said. A retired forensic manager, Carrie Christen, confirmed that a complete fingerprint found on a plastic bag beside Kathleen Brisbois had never been matched to anyone.

On June 21 the jury watched the 2012 interview. On June 23 Everson testified; she had at first refused to leave her hotel room, and prosecutors had sought a warrant to compel her to appear, then dropped it when she agreed. Under cross-examination Whitaker asked why she had felt she had to take notes and go to the police. She said her first aim had been to stop Perry from killing other people. Nagrone and Deputy Sutter testified the same day.

The state's last witness, on June 26, was Lorraine Heath, a DNA analyst at the State Patrol laboratory in Cheney. She testified that the chance of a random match for the profile under Kathleen Brisbois's fingernail was 1 in 796 sextillion, and that a weaker result from a second sample taken from Brisbois's body was consistent with Perry. Donahue questioned her about contamination incidents at the Cheney lab, two of them during work on the Perry case; Heath said both had shown up in control samples, not in the evidence. Prosecutors also put forward the theory that the killings took place while Perry's girlfriend, Gallaway, was in jail in the spring of 1990; the Court of Appeals noted that Gallaway's Spokane County Jail booking photographs were taken on February 21 and March 15, 1990.

That afternoon the defense rested without calling a witness. Perry did not testify.

Closing arguments and verdict

Closing arguments were heard on June 27. Prosecutors told the jury that the bodies had been discarded like trash near the river, and Hedlund said they were left naked or exposed. The state argued that Perry had killed the women in part out of jealousy of their ability to have children. Defense lawyers accepted that the DNA and a print linked Perry to the women but argued that this showed only that Perry, living as a man, had paid for sex on East Sprague. "At the time of these deaths Miss Perry was living with a prostitute and involved in the community," Donahue said. Whitaker argued that the police work had been poor and that the prosecution's motive had shifted during the case.

At one point a juror had been told that this was "not a death penalty case." The defense asked for a mistrial; the court refused and gave the jury a curative instruction.

The jury began deliberating on June 27 and returned its verdict on the morning of Thursday, June 29, 2017. Perry was guilty of all three murders as charged, and the jury found that the killings were part of a common scheme or plan. She stood without visible emotion as the verdict was read, spoke briefly with her lawyers and was handcuffed and led out. Judge Price thanked her: "Ms. Perry, I've appreciated all the dignity you've shown."

"We know it was a tough case, and we are obviously pleased with the verdict," Hedlund said. "We hope this gives the (victims') families some closure." Whitaker said the jury had put a lot of weight on what was said while Perry was in jail, "because the physical evidence wasn't there." In the hallway, the victims' relatives cried and hugged. Chilesa Patzer, Nickie Lowe's niece, said she was "absolutely blown away."

Sentencing

Because of the aggravating finding, prosecutors told the court it had "no discretion and must sentence the defendant to life in prison." A pre-sentencing evaluation recommended the same. When given a form asking her to describe the offense and explain why it happened, Perry drew a diagonal line through the section. Asked whether she had anything to say about the conviction, she answered: "I have nothing to say about it. It wouldn't do me any good. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil." She repeatedly asked to be sent to Eastern State Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital. One of Nickie Lowe's relatives told the evaluator she feared Perry could still harm women and asked that Perry be held in a men's prison or in isolation.

At the hearing on July 24, 2017, Perry came in smiling, chatted with her lawyers and, on Whitaker's advice, made no statement. Family members spoke. Kaishea Kegley thanked her mother for fighting back on May 15, 1990, and said she "carries the scales of justice." "I really never thought this day was going to come," she said afterward, adding that she felt a huge sense of relief. Natasha Sapp said, "I want justice." Marika Sapp told Perry, "You took away precious people." Tabitha Mora, the women's friend, told Perry she hoped she would rot in hell, and one relative said the family had suffered for 27 years.

Judge Price said that in 14 years on the bench he had never seen a case like it. The killings, he said, were not driven by passion, a drug deal or a robbery gone wrong, but "seemingly were committed for the sport of it." He told Perry she had "selectively hunted these women down." He said that, though he had never met the three women, he felt after the trial that he knew them: they had been "hostages to addiction," but they were courageous, caring and loving, and "didn't work the streets because they wanted to." He sentenced Perry to three consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole or early release, plus 710 dollars in court costs and assessments. Her lawyers said they would appeal.

Appeal

The appeal, State v. Perry, No. 35476-8-III, was argued before the Washington Court of Appeals, Division III, in Spokane on September 11, 2019. Perry's lawyers raised six issues: that her 2012 statements should have been excluded because she had asked for a lawyer; that the three counts should have been tried separately; that there was not enough evidence of a common scheme or plan; that giving prospective jurors their first instructions in the jury lounge violated her right to a public trial; that she should have had a mistrial because a juror was told it was not a death penalty case; and that certain costs should be waived.

On February 4, 2020, the court, in an unpublished opinion by Judge Siddoway, joined by Chief Judge Lawrence-Berrey and Judge Pennell, affirmed the convictions. It held that the detectives had stopped questioning Perry after her request and that she herself had restarted the conversation, which the law allows. It found no abuse of discretion in trying the counts together, because Everson's account of a confession to killing several prostitutes made evidence of each killing admissible to corroborate it, and even the weakest count, Lowe, was supported by the fingerprint. It held that Everson's testimony about Perry's hatred of prostitutes, the manner of the killings and the way the bodies were left on the riverbanks were enough for a jury to find a common scheme or plan. It found no public trial violation. It agreed that telling a juror the case was not a capital one was error under the law at the time of trial, but held it harmless in light of the judge's instruction. The only change was that, with the state's agreement, a 110-dollar criminal filing fee was struck. No ruling by the Washington Supreme Court on any further appeal was found.

When checked on October 19, 2026, the Washington State Department of Corrections listed Donna R. Perry, aged 74, as held at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. She is serving life without the possibility of parole.

Aftermath

Kathleen Brisbois's family said after the sentencing that they would never have true closure but were glad the case was over. Kaishea Kegley said the day felt like closing a chapter in her life. The case drew wide attention in 2014 because of Perry's statements separating Donna from Douglas. Psychiatrist Jack Drescher, who had served on the DSM-5 work group on sexual and gender identity, told ABC News that some transgender people describe themselves as having been a different person before transitioning as a metaphor, and that claiming no connection at all to one's past would be a more troubled presentation; Jack Halberstam, a University of Southern California professor, called Perry's statements a desperate defense ploy. Experts quoted by ABC said there was no evidence that hormone treatment reduces aggression.

In November 2025 the Spokane station KXLY revisited the case in its series on the region's best-known crimes, in an episode titled "Douglas or Donna: The Riverbank Murders."

Disputed and unproven points

Proven by the jury's verdict and upheld on appeal: Perry murdered Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe and Kathleen Brisbois in 1990, and the three murders were part of a common scheme or plan.

Not proven, never charged: Everson's account that Perry claimed to have killed at least nine women, later 20 to 30 people, including two after the surgery, and to have worked as a contract killer. No other killing has been charged or attributed to Perry by police in any source opened. The 1997 statements by Oregon inmates were hearsay and led to no charges.

Not linked: the underwear found in a painted-shut closet in 2012 was called possible "trophies" by an ATF agent, but 1990 police reports recorded no underwear missing from the scenes, and no connection to the victims was shown.

Unresolved evidence: a complete fingerprint on a plastic bag beside Kathleen Brisbois's body has never been matched to anyone.

Arguments, not findings: prosecutors argued that Perry had the surgery partly to avoid suspicion and that she resented the women for being mothers. These were the state's theories; the jury's verdict did not require it to accept any particular motive. Perry's own explanation was that the surgery was meant to control her violence. The defense position at trial was that the DNA and print showed only that Perry had been a customer of women on East Sprague.

Details that vary between sources: Kathleen Brisbois's age (38 in court and press reports; 34 in the 2013 police release); the spelling of the victims' first names (Nickie and Kathleen in the court opinion; Nikkie and Kathlene in the police release); the date Sapp was found (February 22 in nearly every source; March 22 in one 2017 newspaper report); the amount of ammunition seized in 1988 (20,000 or 49,000 rounds); whether the DNA was first submitted for testing in 2008 or 2009; the year of the recorded interview (2012 in the court opinion and most reports; 2014 in one); and the time between the killings (about one month, or within three or four months).

Timeline

1986: Douglas Perry shoots a neighbor's dog during a confrontation, according to a 2017 pre-sentencing report.

1987 and 1988: convicted of reckless endangerment and assault in Okanogan County, Washington.

1988: arrested by federal agents for having a pipe bomb; 49 guns seized.

August 1989: arrested in Spokane for patronizing a prostitute.

February 22, 1990: Yolanda Sapp, 26, found shot beside the Spokane River near East Upriver Drive.

March 25, 1990: Nickie Lowe, 34, found shot under the Greene Street Bridge; her belongings and a lubricant tube are found in a dumpster.

May 15, 1990: Kathleen Brisbois, 38, found beaten and shot near Trent Avenue and Pines Road, Spokane Valley.

Mid-1990s: the joint investigation goes cold; Robert Yates is later ruled out.

1994: Perry arrested on federal firearms charges; 33 guns seized.

August 1995: guns seized in 1988 are disposed of by the police property room.

1997 and 1998: Oregon inmates' statements about Perry are passed to investigators; police stops find knives, a stun gun and surgery papers.

Early 2000: gender reassignment surgery in Bangkok; Perry lives as Donna Perry.

2005: Detectives Mark Burbridge and James Dresback take over the cold cases.

2009: a male DNA profile from Brisbois's fingernail is entered into CODIS; no match.

March 14, 2012: Perry arrested by the ATF in Spokane; later convicted in federal court as a felon in possession of a firearm.

September 14, 2012: CODIS match to Perry in the Brisbois case.

October 12, 2012: fingerprints on the Lowe evidence matched to Perry.

November 15, 2012: recorded interview with Burbridge and Dresback.

November 20, 2012: police name Perry as a person of interest.

June 19, 2013: detectives interview Chero Everson.

October 31, 2013: police forward murder charges to prosecutors.

January 2014: three counts of first-degree murder filed.

March 2014: bond set at 1 million dollars.

April 3, 2014: Perry pleads not guilty.

2016: Perry's public defenders withdraw; the September 2016 trial date is lost.

June 5, 2017: trial opens before Judge Michael Price.

June 26, 2017: the defense rests without calling witnesses.

June 29, 2017: convicted of three counts of first-degree murder with a common scheme or plan aggravator.

July 24, 2017: sentenced to three consecutive terms of life without parole.

September 11, 2019: appeal argued in Spokane.

February 4, 2020: Court of Appeals, Division III, affirms the convictions.

November 18, 2025: KXLY broadcasts its episode on the case.

October 19, 2026: listed at the Washington Corrections Center for Women.