Sources: Person of interest found dead after Seattle homicide is prolific repeat offender

Seattle police detectives are investigating two deaths Wednesday in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The King County ME identified the dead woman as 38 year-old Lisa Vach, who was found dead in Cal Anderson Park. A man believed to be her partner was also found dead after barricading himself inside a small pump house building.

Sources say the person suspected of the domestic violence homicide is Travis Berge.

Berge was a homeless man in downtown Seattle known for his love of meth and his eccentric behavior.

Documentary filmmakers Devin Greene and Oliver Tang met Berge in June during CHOP’s chaos.

The filmmakers operate YouTube.com/TeamFriendship and featured Berge in their film.

They ran into Berge for the first time minutes after gunshots rang out in the autonomous zone.

“It was really human chaos, I described it myself as the beginning of a universe a supernova with all of these energies,” Greene said.

“He had a super larger than life personality,” Tang said.

But way before the CHOP ever existed, it was hard to find a Seattle Police Officer in the East Precinct that didn’t know the repeat offender.

“He is the original repeat offender who brought me to the problem, the city of Seattle ultimately enabled his behavior,” Scott Lindsay said.

Lindsay met Berge as a public safety adviser for the city of Seattle back in 2015.

“He got into these meth-fueled rages, hundreds of police contacts and hundreds upon hundreds of victims including a very serious crime for attempted rape,” Lindsay said.

That alleged attempted rape happened in 2015 and the charge in Superior Court was amended to second-degree assault. The King County Prosecutor's Office says they agreed to a plea resolution after looking at all of the evidence including the alleged victim in the case not wanting the prosecution to proceed. A King County judge sentenced Berge to 3 months in jail, which he served 2 m... (Read more)

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