By Rikki King, Scott North and Diana Hefley
From the Daily Herald
MONROE, Wash. -- Some corrections officers who worked alongside Jayme Biendl can’t help but feel like they let her down.
The anger, guilt and unanswered questions have been festering in private since Biendl was strangled at her post Jan. 29.
People who could have checked on Biendl, and maybe kept her alive, weren’t where they were supposed to be, according to a corrections officer who was working at the Washington State Reformatory the night she was killed.
Monroe Correctional Complex officers should have noticed sooner that Biendl hadn’t left her post at the reformatory, said the man, who spoke on the condition that his name not be published. Officers should have realized a convicted rapist was alone with her inside the chapel, after all inmates should have been cleared from the area, the man said in multiple interviews.
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