$100,000 Reward Offered in Double Slaying

GUERNEVILLE —  A retired FBI agent has been hired and a $100,000 reward offered in an attempt to solve a double murder that left a nightclub owner and his employee dead.

This small Russian River resort town was jarred by the fatal shootings on Oct. 23 of Horst “Hans” Grahlmann, 57, and his employee, Jason Aaron Blore, 26, at Grahlmann’s home in nearby Monte Rio.

Bill Brown, who is handling Grahlmann’s estate, said he hired the agent and raised the reward from $25,000 to $100,000.

Brown declined to name the agent.

Authorities continue the investigation; preliminary lab results on fingerprints, blood and DNA samples from the crime scene are expected in February.

Authorities say they do not believe the deaths of Grahlmann and his employee were a random crime.

Detectives interviewed the managers of the bars owned by Grahlmann, who ran Uncle Bert’s Place and the Rat & Raven in San Francisco, as well as the Hiding Place along the Russian River.