Shortly after Billy Gohl's arrival on the harbor, so many bodies washed ashore that local reporters began referring to them as the "Floater Fleet"

All along the Pacific coast, Aberdeen gained a reputation as the "Port of Missing Men"

Only Washington State's repeal of the death penalty a few years earlier saved Billy from the gallows

Billy Gohl was sentenced to life in prison, and later transferred to an asylum for the criminally insane, where he died in 1928