8-28-2018
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A man was sentenced Monday to twenty years in prison for attacking his estranged wife and her friend with a machete in Bay View, a CDP of Skagit County.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports Eric Daniel Woody accepted a plea deal Friday to avoid a potential fifty-year sentence for the attempted murder of his wife, Rhonda Polinder and her friend, Michael Rash.
In March 2017, Woody attacked Polinder and Rash, who she says was staying with her to keep her safe after she left Woody to escape of years of abuse.
Part of Polinder’s left arm had to be amputated, she lost some function in her right hand and she still suffers with vision problems.
