By Rob Ollikainen
For Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — The focus of Dennis Marvin Bauer’s triple-murder trial returned to alleged accomplice Kallie Ann LeTellier.
Clallam County sheriff’s investigators testified on Monday to LeTellier’s statements about the murders of Darrell and Jordan Iverson and Tiffany May.
The victims were gunned down at Darrell Iverson’s residence at 52 Bear Meadow Road east of Port Angeles on Dec. 26, 2018.
Bauer, 53, is charged with three counts of first-degree aggravated murder, eight counts of illegally possessing firearms and six counts of possessing stolen weapons.
His trial began Nov. 15 and will continue the remainder of the year.
Clallam County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Keegan and Detective Stacy Sampson testified Monday about their interviews with LeTellier.
LeTellier told authorities that she had been raped by the Iversons about two weeks before the murders.
LeTellier, 37, pleaded guilty last November to second-degree murder for May’s death and agreed to testify against Bauer. She is serving a 35-year prison term.
A third co-conspirator, Ryan Warren Ward, 40, was sentenced last November to life in prison with no possibility of parole after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree aggravated murder and 16 weapons violations.
Keegan said he interviewed LeTellier at Bauer’s former residence at 2591 Lower Elwha Road on Jan. 28 or Jan. 29, 2019.
Ward, LeTellier and others lived in RVs on the residence before the murders.
“We started, I believe, in the cabin,” Keegan said of the walk-through with LeTellier.
“She would describe items that were removed from the other crime scene or any significant event, like back here in the shed where they had to wash off with hydrogen peroxide and bleach wipes, or items that were recovered in Mr. Ward’s trailer.”
Investigators alleged that Bauer, Ward and LeTellier ransacked the Iverson residence after the murders, taking guns, drugs, jewelry and other items from the Iverson home back to Bauer’s ranch.
LeTellier also gave a recorded interview at the Iverson property on Feb. 1, 2019.
“She was present with her attorney,” Keegan said.
“We started off talking about issues that had happened before the homicide at the residence, and then we did a walk-through of the date and time that the homicides occurred.”
LeTellier has testified she was ordered at gunpoint to shoot a fleeing May, who was 26.
The bodies of Darrell Iverson, 57, and Jordan Iverson, 27, were found under tarps in the driveway on New Year’s Eve 2018. May’s body was found in a folded position in a nearby shed.
Sampson said she interviewed “over 50 people” connected to the case on Jan. 28 and Jan. 29, 2019, including LeTellier.
On Feb. 1, 2019, Sampson was assigned to search the master bedroom of the Iverson residence for “sex toys or sex-related paraphernalia,” she said.
She found a rope, lubricant and nipple clamps in the bedroom and displayed the items for the jury.
Keegan, who also searched the master bedroom, said he found a whip used for “sadomasochist play.”
On cross examination, defense attorney Karen Unger established that LeTellier was cooperative and coherent during her interviews with law enforcement as she described the sexual assault and her role in the murders.
“She described how she alone shot Tiffany May?” Unger asked Keegan.
“Yes,” Keegan said.
Unger has argued that Bauer was a bystander to the murders.
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Rob Ollikainen is a freelance reporter.