Lazlo
6:40 am on September 18th, 2009
Jesus! When are we going to get over this “rehabilitated” bullshit! WTF are these people thinking?
Coyote
9:13 am on September 18th, 2009
Great write-up thinkgoat! I sure hope the authorities find him before he hurts anyone else.
thinkgoat
9:43 am on September 18th, 2009
State officials have temporarily halted all outings for state patients with criminal histories while they conduct a review.
“This is very serious,” said Susan Dreyfus, secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, which oversees Eastern. “We need to understand what happened and why.”
Paul, 47, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to the Medical Lake hospital in 1987, after being found innocent by reason of insanity of strangling and slashing the throat of a 78-year-old woman in Sunnyside, Wash. According to previous reports, Paul said the voices in his head said the woman was a witch.
It’s not the first time Paul has walked away from those in charge of his care.
In 1990 he escaped from Eastern and was convicted of first-degree escape and second-degree assault after injuring a Spokane County sheriff’s deputy who helped detain him.
It’s unclear what time Paul went missing from his group at the fairgrounds, but a witness said he went into a business about four or five blocks west of the fairgrounds around 11:15 a.m., and asked for a job application.
Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan said his agency was notified by Eastern about the escape about two hours later, around 1:15 p.m.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/18/patient-with-violent-past-escapes-at-fair/
captainhowdy
10:40 am on September 18th, 2009
LOVELY. I find it surprising that, even though he showed enough forethought to pour gasoline on her to hide the smell, he was still considered “crazy” and avoided jail. WTF.
(Oh, and incidentally–I think you meant “penal” instead of “penile” in the first paragraph. Unless, of course, that was a deliberate play on words!)
thinkgoat
10:47 am on September 18th, 2009
(Oh, and incidentally–I think you meant “penal” instead of “penile” in the first paragraph. Unless, of course, that was a deliberate play on words!)
Hahahahaaaaa!!!! LMAO Ooops! Nice…. Shows what happens when I write while having really bad TV running in the background. I’m blaming it on those fucking catheter commercials! (I’m highly fascinated with them )
CassieMomma
10:58 am on September 18th, 2009
This murderer had a 2 hour jump on his escape before the authorities, who are trained and have resources, were notified
Not only that it’s not like he had to worry about a change of clothes, he blended right in with him jeans and windbreaker. Doooope!
dawnmpeters
2:50 pm on September 18th, 2009
Manhunt Intensifies for Insane Killer Who Escaped During Washington State Fair
Friday, September 18, 2009


Print ShareThisSPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities have put out a statewide alert for a mentally ill killer who escaped during a hospital field trip to a county fair, leading to fears that he'll become more unstable and potentially dangerous the longer he is on the loose with no medication.
Phillip Arnold Paul most likely jumped a train and is headed to his parents home in Sunnyside, Washington, authorities told FOX News. Paul checks in with his family daily — and they hope he will continue his previous habit.
Sgt. Dave Reagan of the Spokane County sheriff's office says Phillip Arnold Paul remained at large Friday and officials believe he's headed to Sunnyside, the town where his parents live. Anyone spotting him should call 911 and not try to confront him.
He was caught trying to escape four years later, only to knock a deputy unconscious in the booking area following his arrest.
Local officials and fairgoers said they were stunned that mental patients, including at least one with a criminal past, would be taken to the fair.
"I think it's wrong, it's totally wrong," said Jennifer Craig, who was visiting the fair with her husband and grandchildren. "You're putting too many kids and old disabled people like me at risk."
Patients must be cleared by a treatment team of six to 12 clinicians according to an extensive checklist before they can go on field trips to stores, parks, ball games, fairs and other sites, said hospital spokesman Jim Stevenson said. They wear street clothing and need not all stay together, but staff members are required to keep each patient within eyesight at all times.
It was the second escape for Paul. In 1991, he walked away from custody during a day trip in Medical Lake and was captured at Fishtrap on the western Spokane County line. He attacked a sheriff's deputy in the jail booking area, knocking him unconscious and separating his shoulder, and was convicted of first-degree escape and second-degree assault
MadeaBecBec
3:53 pm on September 18th, 2009
His initials are not only P.P. but also, P.A.P. and what a smear he is….
No wonder he has “issues”, the voices in my head never give me ideas of murder….
I found several articles on the poor lady he murdered, seems she was quite the popular person around Sunnyside.
Dr.Keegee
5:22 pm on September 18th, 2009
His initials are not only P.P. but also, P.A.P. and what a smear he is….
No wonder he has “issues”,
LOL Yep – he wasn’t able to settle on either being a peepee or a pappy – could’ve led to schizophrenia.
Nice write up Goat – I know you intended to call it a penile institution!
defenestratethis
11:55 pm on September 18th, 2009
I know a guy here in hawaii, who walked up to his brother-in-law and shot him point blank in the head, from a distance of about 20 feet. He was on Meth, which is known for inducing shizophrenia, and of course, the voices told him to do it. A Public Defender got him off with an insanity plea and an eight year stay in the state looney bin. He’s out now, the voices are long gone, and he has now received a degree in engineering, his schooling paid for by the government. His sister, who was 8 months pregnant at the time of her husbands murder, is now rearing the child on her own, with no help from him, the state, or the goverment. I just trip. Whether you’re a basket case or not, murder is murder, and if you do win a trip to the nuthouse, you should stay there for a very long time with very little privelages.
MadeaBecBec
2:17 am on September 19th, 2009
….some people identified someone who looked like Paul as being on a bus that stopped in north Lewiston Friday morning. The bus was pulled over by Idaho Sate Police near Craigmont later in the morning, but Paul was not on it.
Greene said local police are being especially vigilant because Paul has an acquaintance from Clarkston who has visited him at Eastern State Hospital.
Oh! Now they’re saying, he had a backpack with him!!
Wow! If the sighting is true, then he’s traveled 117 miles, already, of course, that’s not that far by bus! Sunnyside is another 186 miles!
Wonder what PAP has in his backpack…..
MadeaBecBec
2:20 am on September 19th, 2009
Oops! Link for article, I quoted above: Source
halfwaythere
4:22 pm on September 20th, 2009
Apparently he’s been posting song’s on his myspace account [wait. they let mental patients have myspace accounts... that explains a lot] has anyone been able to find that?
hanonfire
6:06 pm on September 20th, 2009
I feel ashamed to admit this but.. I am from Sunnyside. This guy, needless to say, is a douchebag. I used to live 2 houses down from where Ms. Friend was murdered and buried, my friend and I would lay flowers in her flower beds. So sad to know that this scum-bag not only got away with murder, but is running around freely. Maybe he’ll get hit by a car.
whisperswing
2:15 am on September 21st, 2009
Captured at 4 oclock Sunday in Goldendale Washington,sorry comps screwed up today cant copy and paste addy but its at cnn crime..
whisperswing
2:18 pm on September 21st, 2009
He was picked up hitch hiking along the interstate.Wearing a backpack containing rope,gloves and a rusty sickle!!
MadeaBecBec
11:10 am on September 22nd, 2009
SPOKANE, Wash. —
Phillip Arnold Paul wanted to be released from a state institution for the criminally insane, and rejection of that request apparently convinced the psychotic killer to escape.
When captured, he was carrying a sleeping bag and a backpack with food, clothing and many of his personal items from Eastern State. Paul, an amateur musician who posts songs on My Space, was also carrying a guitar. Ominously, a hand scythe protruded from the pack when he was captured.
Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said Paul conned a friend into giving him a ride from Spokane to Goldendale, about 180 miles southwest, near the Oregon border. The friend believed Paul had been legally released. When the friend saw news reports of the escape, he contacted authorites and led them to the point where he had dropped off Paul.
Paul had petitioned and won conditional release to the downtown facility, called The Carlyle, twice in the past, fathering a child during one of his releases.
1987 strangling and slashing of 78-year-old Ruth Mottley in Sunnyside.
On his My Space page, Paul talks about his schizophrenia and the medications he takes. Identifying his band as Philly Willy and the Hillbillies, he posted songs that called Eastern State the “nut hut,” the “castle on the hill,” and a “palace of the pill.”
On the site, Paul referred to the killing of Mottley.
Source
MadeaBecBec
11:12 am on September 22nd, 2009
His Myspace: Phil Paul Myspace
Coyote
3:37 pm on September 23rd, 2009
Glad they caught this guy. Just curious, did anyone get fired over this? That’d be a great conversation, “Yeah, I used to work at the nuthouse, until the killer mental patient outsmarted me and gave me the slip”. Someone must be so proud right now.
Wonder
2:32 am on September 24th, 2009
I can not bare to listen to the music, creeeeeepy… I can NOT support that (# plays)
somebody else wrote this : it hurts my head !!!!
Bogus………..
About Philly Willy and the Hillbillies
For as long as he could remember Phil Paul’s greatest dream was to be successful in wrestling. However, after giving his life to the sport and accomplishing international success at the age of 25, Phil had to suddenly surrender further aspirations, only to lay down his life again …this time to a higher priority, but to never perform public wrestling again. A four second mistake took Phil on a path no one could have imagined. A person lay dead at his feet. Phil called 911. At the scene, Psychotic symptoms were noted over the incident that landed Phil in the psychiatric ward of the Washington State Mental Institution.
Ironically, years later, after suffering through many experimental therapies, Phil felt enough release to pick up the remnants of his dream in the expressive form music would allow. A sound was birthed. Somehow Phil painstakingly managed to bottle that sound and boot-leg the contraband recordings. Irregardless of how he was able to do such a feat in his situation, this first smuggled album shoots straight to the heart of his passion. A new mental culture is born from the chaotic ashes of a chemically induced insanity. A culture of refined madness is brewed with all the bizarre side effects just the appetizer. Enter Phil’s world, the horrific netherworld of chemical lobotomies and forced inject-table toxic cocktails that help finance the cutting edge of today’s psychotic medications. Federally approved injectable medications, time released by biodegradable polymers have somehow amazingly spawned a new voice of hope. When Phil today is asked if he’s “nuts” for taking on such a battle, he answers with a profound YES…with full assurance he’s completely certified for the last 22 years.
The first and only long-acting anti-psychotic medication approved for use in schizophrenia was first tested on Phil and then approved for treatment and marketed in the U.S.
Worldwide, it is estimated that 1 person in every 100 develops schizophrenia, one of the most serious types of mental illness. In the U.S., there are currently 2 million people with schizophrenia, with men and women affected equally. The disease is marked by positive symptoms (hallucinations and delusions) and negative symptoms (depression, blunted emotions, and social withdrawal), as well by disorganized thinking.
Today many young people ask how they can get a start in life. As countless questions are generated, there are those who feel even now they are being “called” into the “black hole” of extremism and the hopelessness of the BOP culture, the “Bottom Of the Pyramid”…the forgotten fatalistic approach of the Greenwichian profane. From the cutting edge of the poverty movement…from tent cities all across America, a new hood emerges.
What has morphed from the reeking tissue of a single rotting soul, incubated within a system out of control, swirling downward in mismanagement, seeping into stagnant pools of corporate greed…one lonely soul, alone, who had first crawled, and finally now claws back into the light of day, comes our fully institutionalized hero bellowing a hard earned war cry …proclaiming what he knows…
Star Struck “Why do we idolize great songwriters? We go from glorifying musicians in the world, to glorifying. Songwriters! It’s idolatry! Can’t people see that?” Phil’s tremors become noticeable and his anguished pleas approach the unbearable as his eyes glaze and each listener wonders secretly, “will he blow?” ”will it be tonight?” No readers. Phil has already blown. But in a good way. Phil has found his stride. His “second wind” they say. It is next to impossible for others to see the depth of what he’s really like outside of song. Those that support this work be blessed and thank you for your continuous support.
MadeaBecBec
11:45 pm on September 24th, 2009
PAP knew months in advance that he was going to the fair, but yet, he says he didn’t plan to escape….Sure, Sure the voices told him to take off..Phone interview with PAP here:
KHQ Audio

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