This is such great news. One less raping, murdering slimeball off the streets. God..this and the news of Anne Pressley's murderer being found...it's like injecting new hope into all of the other unsolved cases out there.
Kudos to the girlfriend's friend who called the tip line. She could have just shrugged the whole thing off and assumed that Biela was just a cheating jerk. This certainly puts a new twist on finding another woman's underwear among your boyfriend's belongings, doesn't it?! I also think the previous rape victim deserves a part of that reward, if she hasn't gotten one already. She did a fantastic job of describing this guy, his truck and just adding a lot of details that probably helped people make a connection to this Biela guy. Also, there was some really good connecting of details going on within these threads.
It's frightening that this creep made it all the way up here to Washington state over the last few months. But, that certainly explains the lack of activity from him in the Reno area. It doesn't say, but I'm guessing that he was staying near his mother and sister who live in Spokane Valley. That is in Eastern Washington, 4-5 hrs away from Seattle, btw. That is ironic that he has ties to Spokane Valley. A serial rapist from the early 80s, "The South Hill"/Spokane Valley rapist, was recently in the news again because he was up for parole and prosecutors (along with previous victims) were in court again fighting to keep him in jail. Anyway, I just thought that was an interesting coincidence.
I had googled the interior of a Toyota Tacoma and found that dome light. I think the link should still be here somewhere.
