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“He was always a very cautious person,” said his friend of 40 years, Gary Mell, who questioned whether a lack of home insurance might have driven Simoneau to stay too long.

Joan Mell, an attorney representing Timothy “Timmy” Rankine and his wife, Katherine Chinn, filed claims on behalf of the couple in March with the city of Tacoma and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

Rankine is seeking $35 million in damages from the city and state, and Chinn is seeking $12 million, according to copies of their filings provided by Mell.

On March 16, 1985, a day off, he had taken a break to play tennis with former AP photographer Don Mell and was dropping Mell off at his home when gun-toting kidnappers dragged him from his car.

Tuesday’s final witness was Steven Mell, a forensic investigator for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, who photographed the scene where Ellis died.