Is Spokane unusual?

It seems like the Spokane area has more than it's share of bizarre murders.

In 1999, Robert Woods Killed his son Christopher. He set fire to their house, blamed the missing kid, and tried to claim the insurance money. He was busted in part because a local photo processing shop alerted authorities to the before and after insurance shots on the same roll of film. Mr Woods hung himself in jail, avoiding trial.

Also in 1999, Brad Jackson killed his daughter Valiree. He buried her in a rural area. Police suspected he was the murderer. They tipped him off that they had narrowed down the location of her grave. Then they tracked his truck's movements as he dug up his daughter, and relocated her body.

Robert Yates hunted prostitutes on the streets of Spokane between 1996 and 1998. He is convicted of 15 murders, but is suspected in several more. When he plead guilty to several of the murders, he agreed to lead the authorities to one of the missing bodies. Which was buried right outside his bedroom window.

In 1996, Tom DiBartolo, a Spokane County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed his wife, Patti. He also inflicted a superficial gunshot wound on himself in order to substantiate his story that they where mugged in a park. He had taken out a life insurance policy on his wife, and he moved in with his girlfriend shortly after the murder.

Last year, Joseph Duncan kidnaped two children Shasta and Dylan Groene, after murdering their mother, brother and their mother's Boyfriend. He later murdered Dylan Groene in the Montana mountains before being captured eating a midnight snack with Shasta in a Denny's resturaunt in Coeur d'Alene.

Last week, Richard and Teresa Kim where murdered by their 18 year old son, Bryan. Apparently Bryan strangled his mother with zip ties, and stabbed his father to death. When the parents employers reported them missing, police went to their home and found their body's in the bucket of a Bobcat.. Bryan was apprehended at his high school.

So, is there something in the water here? Or is this normal?