Clinton E. Gulick, 41, was found dead on the side of a rural road in Whatcom County on October 11, 2020. A passerby located his body about 9:00 AM in a gravel pullout in the 4000 block of Mosquito Lake Road, near Deming; his vehicle was still running and he was lying face down. Deputies determined he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was deceased at the scene.

Investigators quickly focused on an associate, 36-year-old Roseanne L. Paden of Bellingham, who was arrested that evening and charged with first-degree murder. During questioning she implicated a second person, 34-year-old Zachary S. Ranahan of Bellingham, and said she had lured Gulick to the remote location under the pretense of needing help with her car. According to Paden, Ranahan confronted Gulick with a handgun, shot him after Gulick pleaded for him to put the weapon away, and the two then left the scene in Paden’s vehicle.

Whoever has information about Gulick’s movements in the hours before October 11 or who saw a vehicle in the Mosquito Lake Road area that morning is asked to come forward.