Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Hughes: So you got to do some cool prosecuting work with cases like that.
Dimmick: Oh yeah, I became fast friends with the Winklers – Germaine Winkler, Evelyn’s
mother, in particular. She was just a doll.
(Editor’s Note: Ann Rule chronicles the murder case in her book “Smoke, Mirrors and
Murder,” Simon & Schuster, (ISBN-10: 1416541608)
Hughes: And Charlie Smith, meantime, is working on the Dave Beck case, building a case
against the president of the Teamsters union.
Dimmick: I didn’t have anything to do with that case. We all had our little spheres of
intrigue.
Hughes: Well, since you overlap and are good friends, tell me about Charles Z. Smith,
knowing him over the years.
Dimmick: Well, Charles Z. Smith was a radio commentator for a while.
Hughes: Yes, KOMO. And on TV, too.
Dimmick: And I remember turning on the news when I got my appointment to the
Superior Court in 1976 and he was just saying glowing things about me. (laughs)
Hughes: So you’ve been friends all these years?
Dimmick: All these years. Darling wife, cute kids; you know he’s just always been top
notch.
Hughes: Did Charlie have a good reputation in the Prosecutor’s Office? Was there any
racial stigma there?
Dimmick: No. I don’t think there was any against women or blacks or anybody else. Heck
no. We had a Greek guy. We had a black guy. We had a woman. We had everything there
was.
Hughes: That was Chuck Carroll’s boast: “I’ve got one of everything.”
Dimmick: Yes, we had one of everything: “Got an Italian, etc.” It worked well for Chuck
because we would have to go to these things (to boost him politically). I’d have to go to
the PTA meetings, and then he would introduce us, and then we’d have to make a speech.
Hughes: Charlie Smith says that Chuck Carroll wasn’t really good at speech making and
that the deputies would —
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