The reverend counseled her to call the police.

Detective Marian McCann, a longtime veteran of the Edmonds Police Department, gently elicited the details of the attack and assured Ashley Varner that she had done the right thing in reporting it. Ashley described her attacker as a white male about twenty-five, quite tall, with dark curly hair and a two-day growth of beard. She said the man wasn’t bad looking; in other circumstances, she would have said he was handsome.

Forensic artist Robin Hickok drew a composite picture based on Ashley’s description and copies of the composite were distributed to all of the area police departments.

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