PORT ANGELES – When Linda Smith visited the house at 3905 Bean Road in January 1987 looking for her stepbrother, Norman Boullion, the woman there said he had disappeared suddenly.
The woman’s boyfriend didn’t care for Boullion, Smith said on Wednesday.
“He was a mean guy, mean to Norman,” she said.
Smith remembered the woman living there made the comment, “I wonder if he isn’t buried under the apple tree.”
The backyard of the Bean Road house west of Port Angeles now has three apple trees, and five more grow in the front and side yards.
Most of them were in bloom this week as the Clallam County Sheriff’s Department dug there Monday and Tuesday, 21 years after Boullion, then 39, went missing.
