Bees would sometimes crawl out of Roy Parks collar when he came to town every other Thursday to sell his honey.
Once, he parked his beat-up pickup across from the post office with 80,000 honeybees in wood boxes jury-rigged to the truck bed. When a local businessman voiced concern over a bunch of bees flying loose, Park told him, Dont worry theyll follow me when I leave.
And the bees did.
Park was Eatonvilles Honey Man, a loner everybody loved but nobody really knew...
Parks body was found May 16 after a postal worker reported that Park hadnt picked up his mail for a few days. A Pierce County sheriffs deputy found that Parks bloodied body had been dragged from his trailer into the woods and covered with branches. Detectives figure he had been killed two or three days earlier.
