July 5, 2024 - Bonney Lake, Washington

Age 53

Lisha was assumed strangled by her Ex husband in her home, although the cause of death is still pending. Their divorce was only finalized the month before he killed her. Lisha had alerted police of his threats to kill her in June 2023 when she filed for divorce and an order of protection, but it took more than a year to file the felony harassment charge because of “an accumulating workload in the prosecutor’s office.” Authorities filed the the felony charge from 2023 three days after he killed her. The protection order has just expired 2 days prior to her death.

The News Tribune reports that in five separate filings between 2020 and 2023, she documented being afraid for her life and wrote about her husband’s attempts and threats to take it. Two divorce petitions and three requests for domestic-violence protection orders laid out her reportedly increasingly dire situation. The last domestic-violence order she sought came the day after the alleged threats inside the grocery store, where she held a job in the bakery. “He will kill me and has threatened to kill me multiple different ways,” she wrote in the petition.

They has separated in 2019 after a 35 year, abusive marriage. Lisha had filed for protective orders multiple times after various incidents including attempted strangulation and threats to kill her and their children. Lisha did everything right and she was not protected and there was no urgency to her reports that “he is going to kill me.”

Lisha leaves behind her 3 adult children and grandchildren.

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News Coverage

• ‘He will kill me’. For years, slain Bonney Lake woman documented fears about then-husband

• Pierce County Man Charged with Killing his Ex-Wife