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(ALGER)– Former Alger resident Kenneth McBride will go on trial in the death of Jeremy Scully on June 14th in Skagit County Superior Court. The 36-year-old McBride was living in Alger a year ago when the 28-year-old Ferndale High School track coach disappeared. Scully’s body was found three days later on Blanchard Mountain. He had been shot to death. In a pre-trial hearing Monday, a judge ruled that voluntary statements McBride made before he was arrested can be used against him at trial.
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March 30, 2010 - 09:59 AM
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Frank Varga
Kenneth McBride, 36, appears at an evidentiary hearing Monday in Skagit County Superior Court. McBride is accused in the 2008 killing of Jeremy Scully.
MOUNT VERNON — Glimpses of an upcoming trial for a man accused of killing his wife’s lover came to light Monday in a pretrial evidentiary hearing during which a judge ruled that voluntary statements the murder defendant made before he was charged can now be used against him.
Kenneth McBride, 36, formerly of Alger, was in a swinging relationship with his wife, each openly having multiple sex partners. But McBride grew jealous when he realized his wife was falling in love with 28-year-old Ferndale assistant track coach Jeremy Scully, according to the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office.
Scully disappeared on April 24, 2008. His body was found three days later on Blanchard Mountain. He had been shot to death.
McBride was questioned at least four times within a month after Scully’s disappearance, but wasn’t arrested until a year later. Monday, the judge said the statements McBride made during the approximately eight hours of questioning after Scully’s murder can be used during the trial.
Most of those statements, contained in police reports and transcripts, are not yet open to the public.
However, some information is available in McBride’s arrest affidavit.
McBride told investigators he spent most of the day Scully went missing at his home searching for jobs, which contradicts the history on his computer seized during the investigation, the affidavit says.
The day he disappeared, Scully had plans to help McBride with work on his Alger home, according to court documents. Scully wasn’t seen alive again.
McBride’s attorney, Skagit County Public Defender Keith Tyne, said in court Monday he had recently learned about a “surprise witness” in the case.
Tyne said McBride’s jail cell mate, 50-year-old Travis Martinez, had told prosecutors that McBride confessed to killing Scully.
Martinez of Sedro-Woolley was awaiting trial for multiple felony drug-dealing charges at the time. He has since accepted a plea agreement. The details of the agreement have been sealed.
Skagit County Prosecuting Attorney Rich Weyrich said he has not decided if he will use Martinez as a witness. Prosecutors already have 70 witnesses in the McBride case, he said.
McBride’s trial is now expected to begin June 14.