Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Hughes: Tell me about it.
Dimmick: He had an antique shop up here (in Seattle). And Dolores and Manzanita
disappeared. He said they left him and she divorced him. He then quickly married Evelyn
Emerson, the stepdaughter of a wealthy Seattleite named Clifford Winkler. Evelyn was
also an antiques dealer, and she and Guy went off to California. In the meantime he had
gotten $10,000 from Evelyn’s mother to buy some rare paintings and carvings. … I don’t
remember all the details, but eventually we charged him with grand larceny.
Hughes: Speaking of habeas corpus – or at least having no bodies – did the remains of
these two missing people ever show up?
Dimmick: No, but we had some bones in the Columbia River. We had the car with the
mileage on it that could have gone there and back. We had a sewer in his basement that
had remains of feet in there. We had quite a bit. Rockwell was arrested in New York. One
of the detectives goes back there to talk to him, and he’s all ready to talk and the detective
says, “Why don’t you just get a good night’s sleep and I’ll see you in the morning.” The
detective wanted to go out on the town. The next day Rockwell called his brother, who
had called a lawyer in town and he wouldn’t talk. That detective never got over that; he
was demoted. And then when they brought Rockwell back here, we listened to hours of
tapes where this guy is trying to get him to talk: “Come on, you said you would talk to me.”
He said, “Can’t do it. Promised my lawyer I wouldn’t talk to you.” So as a result we couldn’t
get him on the murder. We charged him with grand larceny when he ran off with Cliff
Winkler’s daughter …
Hughes: And did he go up the creek for a good long time?
Dimmick: Quite a good long time. But here’s the story: Later he gets out and he goes
down to California, and he works in a furniture store. Chuck Carroll, who’s furious that we
haven’t been able to get him, sends one of his deputies down there, undercover, to work in
that furniture store and try to befriend him and see if he can get any information.
Hughes: Did it work?
Dimmick: No, it didn’t. But that guy was Ken Eikenberry, who ended up becoming
Washington attorney general (in 1981).
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