Phillip Arnold Paul

Who is Phillip Arnold Paul?

Phillip Arnold Paul is a man acquitted by reason of insanity in the 1987 slaying of an elderly woman, whose body he soaked in gasoline to throw off wild animals and buried in her flower garden. In 1991, Paul walked away during a day trip to a Washington lake and was later captured. On 17 September 2009 he escaped from a field trip organized by his mental hospital to the Spokane County Fair during an outing with 30 other Eastern State Hospital patients. Paul was later captured, without resisting, in Goldendale, Washington on 20 September 2009.