{"id":34494,"date":"2018-05-10T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/trial-over-oso-murders-begins-with-a-self-defense-claim\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:59:27","slug":"trial-over-oso-murders-begins-with-a-self-defense-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/trial-over-oso-murders-begins-with-a-self-defense-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial over Oso murders begins with a self-defense claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t
EVERETT — An Oso couple was killed and their bodies were hidden in the woods in 2016 because they had the misfortune of making their home next to a neighbor capable of cold-blooded murder, a Snohomish County jury was told Thursday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Patrick Shunn and Monique Patenaude had a beautiful house on about 20 acres bordering the North Fork Stillaguamish River. From the outside, it looked perfect, but it was a “fool’s paradise,” said Craig Matheson, the county’s chief criminal deputy prosecutor.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
That’s because their neighbor was John Blaine Reed, 55, a man with whom they had a longstanding feud, Matheson said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“Monique and Patrick had messed with the wrong guy too many times over too many years,” and that ended in death for the husband and wife April 11, 2016, Matheson said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The prosecutor spoke with jurors as the trial began for Reed on two counts of aggravated murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Defense attorney Phil Sayles said he expects Reed to testify that he was forced to act in self-defense.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “We’ll explain what happened,” Sayles said. “John will tell you what happened.”<\/p>\n