Episode 7: Little Rain Boots
Updated: Jun 28, 2020
Four year old Ruth Anne O'Neill goes missing in the Hawthorne neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Her neighbor, thirteen year old Michele Gates, has information that can shed some light on what happened. What police find out from Michele would shock the Portland metro area and lead to a record breaking trial.









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Father of Portland Child Killer, Michele Gates, accused of shooting her husband
Joe McHale
Dad of notorious child-killer Michele Gates pleads not guilty to killing her husband
Chad Sokol
The strange case of child-killer Michele Gates and how it changed Oregon forever
By The Oregonian/OregonLive
https://expo.oregonlive.com/news/g66l-2019/01/2b570a52594854/the-strange-case-of-killer-mic.html
Ore. Woman Indicted In Arson, Murder Plot
Times Staff: Times News Services
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920418&slug=1487143
Portland area residents unaware of their homes' creepy histories
KATU
https://katu.com/news/local/portland-area-residents-unaware-of-their-homes-creepy-histories
Matter of Gates
https://law.justia.com/cases/oregon/court-of-appeals/1982/642-p-2d-1200-0.html
Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/sociopathy
Gates Case Raises Questions about Juvenile System
Fred Leeson
The Oregonian
Death by Drowning
John Painter and Susan Hobart
The Oregonian
Mary Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell
Mary Flora Bell
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bell-mary-flora.htm
Evil Born