The Poulsbo man suspected of murder and then driving his truck into multiple vehicles along Highway 3 early last Monday morning was arrested just minutes after leaving the scene where a 45-year-old victim, identified as Andrea Gaudette, was found the following day.

Gaudette was found after friends and co-workers asked Bremerton police to check her home in the 5000 block of Fifth Street, in Bremerton’s Auto Center Way area, after not hearing from her all day Monday or Tuesday. The co-workers told police that Gaudette, who worked from home, had logged into her work computer but was unresponsive to repeated messages, according to the charging documents. The friends alerted police that Gaudette had expressed concern over issues related to a volatile relationship with a boyfriend she had lived with in the past but was not currently living in the Fifth Street home, who detectives identified as Harvey.

A Bremerton officer visited the home early that evening, initially knocking on doors and windows without any response, and then entering the home through a window in Gaudette’s bedroom. Inside he found Gaudette, dead and with “severe bruising through her arms, chest, neck and face,” a Bremerton officer wrote in his report.

Bremerton police detectives arrived after securing a search warrant for the home, and found Gaudette’s computer was on and accessible. The computer, which Gaudette had signed into a day earlier, allowed them to access the video security system Gaudette had in the home, which included a camera pointed toward the living room and front door of the home.