Second murder charge added in 1987 cold case
Jun 15, 2018
"William Earl Talbott II was charged Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder for the November 1987 deaths of two young Canadians in Skagit and Snohomish counties.
He was arrested May 18 and charged in Skagit County District Court for the murder of 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg, whose body was found Nov. 24, 1987, in a ditch off Parson Creek Road near Alger.
At the time of his arrest, Talbott was not charged with the death of Van Cuylenborg’s 21-year-old boyfriend Jay Cook because his body was found in Snohomish County....
On November 1987, Cook and Van Cuylenborg left British Columbia in the Cook family van for a trip to Seattle. They were supposed to return home the next day.
Their bodies were discovered about a week later, about the same time the van was found in Bellingham.
Over the years, investigators gathered a list of about 350 potential suspects, but none were Talbott.
A break in the 30-year-old cold case came in May after investigators from the Skagit and Snohomish county sheriff’s offices used cutting-edge technology to create composite images of the couples’ likely killer.
A private company, Parabon NanoLabs in Virginia, then used “reverse genealogy” to link DNA evidence found at the scene of Van Cuylenborg’s death to Talbott...."
Second murder charge added in 1987 cold case
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