PORT ANGELES — The Diamond Point woman who fled to California while awaiting trial for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault will be returned to Clallam County in early January, according to County Prosecuting Attorney Deb Kelly and a supervisor from the U.S. Marshal’s Office in Seattle.
Mary Kniskern, 27, was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular assault stemming from a Dec. 31, 2002, single-car crash on Palo Alto Road east of Sequim.
Killed in the wreck were Heather Holden, 19, Aaron Gambell, 19, and Paul Boynton, 22. All were from Sequim.
Two others — Stuart Bury and Courtney West — were seriously injured, as was Kniskern.
Kniskern’s blood-alcohol level at the time of the crash was 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit in Washington, according to reports from the State Patrol.
Kniskern’s surname has been the subject of confusion between the Prosecutor’s Office and law enforcement agencies, who at one point entered it as “Knistern” on documents released to media.
Her Washington driver’s license shows her full name as Mary Kristine Kniskern.
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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News.