Phyllis Buchert, 47, was picked up by a 39-year-old man at a Seattle bus stop on May 18 and the two went back to the man's Lake City apartment and had sex, according to Seattle police. The man left to buy beer while Buchert took a bath, and when he returned he found her dead in the tub, police said.
The man told police he then dug a hole in a side alley to bury Buchert's body. But the man changed his mind and, instead, poured cold water over her body to keep it from decomposing, a police report said.
Over the next three days the man sat in his apartment with Buchert's body. On May 21, he walked to a convenience store and called his boss from a pay phone. His boss told him to call police, and the man did so the next morning, the report said.
While the man and a police report described Buchert as a prostitute, Buchert's family said that wasn't the case. Hannah Larson, Buchert's 17-year-old daughter, said her mother was bipolar.
Buchert was a married, stay-at-home mother who lived in Burien, Larson said. She had six children, ranging in age from 29 to 11, Larson said.
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