PORT ANGELES – Bail for Andrea Jenette Freese was set Monday at $250,000.
Freese, 32, has not been charged in the Saturday stabbing death of Charles W. “Bill” Boze, 73, in his home at 317 W. 11th St.
Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Debra Kelly said an investigation, including an autopsy of Boze, is still under way and must be completed before she decides whether to charge Freese in relation to the stabbing.
The bail was set in Clallam County Superior Court after Freese was charged with violating her probation for a 2004 conviction on assault in the fourth degree.
Breaking probation is a gross misdemeanor.
“Being as Miss Freese has acknowledged – in addition to a previous probation violation, which has a hearing set for Aug. 30 – that she did commit a homicide within the past two days, I’m asking that bail be set at $250,000,” said Kelly.
Freese’ Aug. 30 court hearing date on the probation violation will be kept, Superior Court Judge Ken Williams ruled on Monday.
Freese occasionally lived in Boze’s home, said both Port Angeles police and his granddaughter, Jessica Bohannan, 17, who had also lived with him.
“My grandpa didn’t deserve this,” Bohannan said in a telephone interview from Houston on Monday.
“He was my caretaker, my everything,” she said.
Bohannan was visiting friends in Texas when Boze was killed.
Boze moved to Port Angeles in 2003, said a family friend, Katie Fairchild, who lives in Houston.
Freese had called 9-1-1 at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday.
Police officers arrived with their guns drawn, neighbors said, and called for an ambulance soon after arriving.
Police found Boze dead and took Freese to Olympic Medical Center, where she was examined but had no apparent injuries, said interim Port Angeles Police Chief Terry Gallagher.
She was then taken to the Port Angeles Police Department, interviewed, then arrested early Sunday morning.
“Following that interview, Freese was transported to the Clallam County Correctional Facility and incarcerated, based on probable cause, for murder second degree,” a police department news release said Sunday.
A knife found at the scene – a large knife that might be used in a kitchen – is believed to be the weapon used to kill Boze, Coyle said.
Detective Sgt. Steve Coyle said Sunday that it appeared that an argument had broken out that led to the stabbing.
Freese and Boze appeared to be platonic acquaintances, police said.
No one else was present at the time of the argument, police said.
