The state supreme court today vacated the aggravated portion of a murder conviction against a Bainbridge Island preacher who strangled his wife to death in 1997.
Dawn Hacheney’s body was found badly burned on Dec. 26, 1997 in an East Bremerton home, and investigators first concluded she’d died in an accidental fire. Four years later, however, a woman came forward alleging Dawn’s husband, Nicholas Hacheney (pictured), was having an affair and he had drugged Dawn and strangled her with a plastic bag before setting their home on fire.
