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September 20, 2021 at QZVX
Kim says:
Hello. I am not a broadcaster and I don’t know a lot about radio even though my father is big into ham radio. I am here because I am an amateur sleuth and trying to learn more about a very notorious radio broadcaster, Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe. I am particularly interested in anyone who may know of a historian with the Ron Bailie school or anyone who might know if/when Coe worked as a radio broadcaster in the state of Washington. Coe claims to have worked in Spokane for a year but it is impossible to find records to document any radio work history in the state of Washington. This information would be useful to me in relation to research into him as a candidate in multiple cold cases.
September 20, 2021 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Seems like this has already been sussed out:
Kevin Coe (born Frederick Harlan Coe on February 2, 1947 is an American convicted rapist from Spokane, Washington, often referred to in the news media as the South Hill Rapist. As of May 2008, Coe is still a suspect in dozens of rapes, the number of which is unusually large; his convictions received an unusual amount of attention from appeals courts. Coe’s mother Ruth was convicted for hiring a hitman against the judge and the prosecutor at her son’s trial following his conviction. The bizarre relationship between Coe and his mother became the subject of a nonfiction book, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims, by the crime author Jack Olsen. On July 31, 1982, Coe legally changed his first name to Kevin.
If he had any background in broadcasting, there would be public records with that info.
Try Googling: Kevin Coe
There is a Wikipedia reference “”Kevin” – a former Las Vegas radio announcer and unsuccessful real estate agent”
News item: In earlier testimony Tuesday, a former secretary at the James S. Black real estate office on the South Hill testified for the first time that she saw Coe hiding behind a tree in Hamblen Park in the summer of 1980 as he watched Spokane broadcaster Shelly Monahan stage a disco dance for young people.
Cheryl Ferguson said she recognized Coe because they worked in the same office.
Coe said in a videotaped deposition taken for his civil commitment trial this year that he’d never seen Monahan, a former disc jockey known as “Sunshine Shelly,” until his 1981 arrest.
Monahan was raped outside the KJRB radio studios on the South Hill on Sept. 9, 1979. She was unable to identify her attacker; her case was never tried.
Ferguson said she’d been employed for about a year when a dapper young real estate agent named Coe was hired.
At first, he came to work in three-piece suits and “Gucci-type” shoes and told her stories about his career as a disc jockey in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Ferguson said. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/oct/01/coe-victim-recounts-attack/
September 21, 2021 at QZVX
Kimberly Gorden says:
In spite of requests to various agencies (FCC included) I am unable to determine exactly where and when Coe worked in radio broadcasting. I am familiar with news reports and the novel by Jack Olsen that contains a wealth of detail. Coe himself stated he briefly worked in radio in western Washington, I need the where and when. So many details not fleshed out with this guy.
October 18, 2021 at QZVX
Guest Book entry says:
Brian Keil says:
October 18, 2021 4:51 pm at
I was going through a box of old air-check tapes today which prompted me to go online and look up these old North Seattle call letters.
I did a Saturday morning show for a few months around the autumn of 1984. I even did one remote broadcast with the gang one weekend. I was 32, recently divorced and fresh out of Ron Baily School of Broadcast. I may still have some bumper stickers. I’ll have to check an old box of stuff in storage. It was my first on-air job and gave me a chance to hone my skills, while holding down my real job in construction. It was a great place to start. I went on to work at KKMI (Pat O’Day Station Manager), KMPS,the Country Station (back then), and ultimately a weekend show at KVI, when it was doing Oldies.
August 25, 2022 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Some pretty impressive stations there. Those were the days.
December 9, 2021 at QZVX
Roger W. Morgan says:
Having been a part of the Star Station organization through much of this story…at KISN, the KOIL and, eventually, WIFE, I can attest to this as being a mostly accurate account of what brought down Don W. Burden. But, I need to add to this comment the fact that Mr. Burden inspired and encouraged me in my broadcast career more than any other person. I admired him as a friend and our relationship, at times, bordered on a “father and son” relationship. Despite conclusions that might be drawn from this account of his “demons”, I owe any success in broadcasting that I enjoy today, to Don Burden. I miss him a lot.
January 25, 2025 at QZVX
Lou Robbins says:
Don Burden – Radio Stardom, Stormy End an excellent accounting of what happened with Burden’s stations.
May 16, 2022 at QZVX
David E. Ruffle III says:
Hello, I am not a broadcaster, but my Dad was friends with one of your graduates, Brian Peterson. My dad asked if I could find any info him, his name is David Ruffle, as am I, the 3rd. My dad says he moved to North Dakota to be a Country music DJ. If anyone has any info about Mr. Peterson, my dad would love to get a hold of him.
Thank you for your time!
*Message is coming from Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula!*
May 16, 2022 at QZVX
JRemington says:
Brian Peterson: graduate of ______? Graduated what year approx.? Worked in what city? If info is to be found, there must be a little more info given.
June 12, 2022 at QZVX
Don Sainte-Johnn says:
Thanks for a great job on Bill Drake’s History of Rock and Roll.
Don Sainte-Johnn
Ex 610 Air Personality
January 24, 2024 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Contact Christopher Nunley through his X.COM account https://twitter.com/chrisnunley
February 18, 2025 at QZVX
John Ross says:
Glad to be on board QZVX, the ‘old’ Puget Sound Media. I could write a book about my 28-year radio-tv career in the Seattle-Tacoma-Puyallup-Spokane market, that began in 1962 at the ripe old age of ’13’ as an Amateur Weather Forecaster with paid/sponsored morning casts from my Trout Lake Weather Station before school on Ed Garre’s KASY Auburn (“Little Detroit of the West”) with Terry McMonagle and Brian Caulkins. Then there were the gratis weathercasts on Jim Baine’s KMO 1360-AM in Tacoma with Buzz Barr, and Henry Perozzo’s KAYE 1450-AM in Puyallup, about the same time that Herb Smiles was spinning platters. That was my start, along with Amateur Radio that same year as a “Novice” radio operator, WN7BZI, and my first radio contacts via CW (Continuous Waves-Morse Code) on the 15-Meter Ham Band to New Zealand and Australia with a self-assembled Heathkit DX-60 transmitter and a National NC-300 receiver. What a rush communicating across the Pacific Ocean with 75-Watts and a home-made wire dipole antenna! I’ll fill-in the rest of the bio later on, but my travels have included KTOY-FM with Chuck Ellsworth and weekends at KJR, KAYE 1450-AM Puyallup, KTNT 1400-AM/FM Tacoma, KXLY 920-AM/FM/TV-4 Spokane, KUUU 1590-AM Seattle, KPUG 1170-AM Bellingham, KMO 1360-AM Tacoma, KXRO 1320-AM Aberdeen, KIXI AM/FM Seattle, KQIX-FM/KQIL-AM Grand Junction, KHIT 106.9 FM Seattle, KMGI 107.7 (Magic 108) Seattle, KXA 770-AM Seattle, KUBE 93.3 FM Seattle, KNBQ 97.3 FM Tacoma, KBSG 97,3 FM Oldies and others.
February 18, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Thanks for the background info, which I will post on the TALENT page tonight. Great to have you as part of the team here!
February 18, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
That resume is incredible. I like how you took the initiative at 13 to start your career. You made it happen.