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Mudslide Victim Wanted Right to Live Anywhere He Wanted
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 26, 2015 04:12pm |
| Category | Oops |
| News Date | Mar 28, 2015 04:00pm |
| Description | Among those missing in the landslide that devastated a small Washington community is the leader of a group that sought to secede from Snohomish County over land-rights issues, including whether government could restrict property owners from building in risky or environmentally sensitive areas like the one buried by the slide.
Thom Satterlee, 65, and his wife, Marlese, 61, both are missing from their home in the community of Oso in the wake of Saturday's landslide, which spewed tons of mud and debris over homes scattered along the Stillaquamish River. A daughter, Andrea Hulme, did not respond to an interview request from NBC News, but a message on her answering machine said, "My parents are missing in the mudslide."
Snohomish County officials were well acquainted with Thom Satterlee, a leader of a polarizing movement to secede and establish a new "Freedom County" that began in the mid-1990s.
By the time it petered out in the late 2000s, Satterlee and his fellow secessionists had announced their independence from Snohomish County (based on a petition that drew more than 12,000 signatures), appointed a sheriff (a former FBI agent who legally changed his name to "Fnu Lnu") and demanded that Snohomish officials halt governance of the roughly 1,000-square-mile area that they claimed as their own. |
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