Episode 27: The Murder of Chris Northon

Chris Northon with son.

Liysa Northon

It was an odd weekend for camping on October 8th, 2000 in Wallowa County, Oregon. The weather was cool and would soon be turning cold, especially in places like the Wollowa-Whitman National Forest, but that didn’t deter 44-year-old Chris Northon and 38-year-old Liysa Northon from taking their three-year-old son into the mountains for a weekend in the outdoors. Tragically, though three people drove into the mountains, only two would come back out alive. In the early dark of Saturday, October 9th, Chris Northon would be shot in the head by the woman he’d married just four years before.

Sources:

Heart Full of Lies by Anne Rule. Published by Gallery Books in 2003.

Seattle Weekly: Ann Rule’s Sloppy Storytelling

Wallowa County Chieftan: New twist in Northon case

The Bulletin: Prosecutor: Killing of Bend man unjustified

Star Advertiser: Woman who killed Hawaiian Airlines pilot leaving Oregon prison

Oregon Live: Eastern Oregon killer Liysa Northon, featured in Ann Rule book, eyes new life after her release from prison next year

East Oregonian: Convicted Killer Out of prison

Oregon Live: Eastern Oregon killer Liysa Northon, featured in Ann Rule book, eyes new life after her release from prison next year

East Oregonian: Battered to the Brink

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