By Pepper Fisher
PORT ANGELES – The jury in the triple-murder trial of Dennis Bauer returned guilty verdicts on all 3 counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of a father and son as well as the son’s girlfriend.
The 53-year-old Port Angeles man was accused in the shooting deaths of 57-year-old Darrell Iverson; his son, 27-year-old Jordan Iverson; and Jordan’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Tiffany May. Their bodies were found at the Iverson residence off Bear Meadow Road near Deer Park Road at the turn of the new year 2019.
Two other defendants in the case have plead guilty.
In a statement issued Monday afternoon, Prosecutor Mark Nichols wrote, in part:
“The defendant has been held accountable for his actions by a jury of his peers. While we recognize that nothing can replace the lives of Darrell and Jordan Iverson and Tiffany May, we nonetheless hope that the jury’s verdicts will provide some measure of peace to the victims’ families as well as the community at large.
We thank the jury for its service, which was unusually burdensome due not only to the duration of the trial event but the fact that the trial occurred during the midst of a global pandemic. We believe their service is of historical significance given the hardships they endured and overcame in the discharge of their civic duty.”
Nichols went on thank the Superior Court for Clallam County for its efforts to facilitate the trial during this challenging time. He said he was appreciative of Karen Unger for her defense expertise, and thanked the many law enforcement agencies for the countless hours that they put in to investigating the case.
Nichols ended by saying he is “personally indebted to Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Michele Devlin, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jesse Espinoza, Victim/Witness Coordinator Jillian Munger and Legal Assistant Melanie Reifenstahl for the countless hours they spent working on this case over the last three years.”
Sentencing in the case is scheduled for Feb. 22 at 9:00 a.m., but Nichols tells us the First Degree Aggravated Murder counts carry a life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP) sentence. Bauer was also found guilty of multiple firearm counts, which will have their own standard range which will run concurrently with the LWOP but consecutive to one another.