On March 17, 1989, 23-year-old JayDee Phillips was one of three friends found shot to death in Ty McCollough’s pickup truck on a remote Bainbridge Island road. The other victims were 19-year-old Ann Rice and 19-year-old Ty McCollough. All three died from shotgun blasts fired through the truck’s window.

Investigators uncovered a drug-related thread to the killings. One theory described the victims as unintended targets after their vehicle had been used in a drug theft; another suggested an attempt to steal cocaine, with a briefcase of the drug allegedly handed over to the assailants shortly before the shooting. Two men, 25-year-old Robert Welsh and 30-year-old Doug Stanfield, and a third unnamed Snohomish County resident were implicated. Charges against Welsh were later dismissed after phone records provided an alibi. Stanfield confessed, recanted, and ultimately pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in JayDee Phillips’s death and second-degree murder in Ty McCollough’s death, while the charge in Ann Rice’s death was dismissed as part of the plea; he later sought to withdraw that plea.

The convictions and dismissals leave unresolved questions about who was responsible and the full sequence of events on that road. Anyone with information about these deaths or the people involved is asked to come forward.