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John Tornow

John Tornow both terrorized and transfixed local residents and regional newspaper readers.  During the manhunt, reporters scrawled stories of the "Beast-Man" and "Wild Man of the Wynooche".  In the Wynooche, they would say, in the vast, unexplored timber at the top of the world there lived a hermit who murdered his own nephews, then ambushed the deputies who hunted him and finally was killed in a bloody shootout in a swamp guarded by an army of tethered frogs.
Over the years, Tornow has manifested the spirit of the forest: shadowy, frightening, yet somehow free. 

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P.O. Box 1366
427 West Railroad Avenue
Shelton, WA   98584

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  • Museum
    • About
    • Services
    • Contact
    • Our Building
  • Our Store
  • Videos
  • Archives
  • Calendar
  • Annual Car Show
    • Car Show 2014
    • Car Show 2015
    • Car Show 2016