1989 UNSOLVED HOMICIDE: AMANDA TERESA STAVIK - go to the end of the page; then count up 5 sentences -
Stavik was last seen about a half-mile from her home by her younger brother, Lee, 13. Her mother thought she had jogged the three miles south
to the Noosack River.
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Stavik's mother, Mary, had worked to keep her mind from dwelling on her missing daughter.
Part 5: Serial killers -- they're not always who we think ~Snip - But when Pete Piccini, a Jefferson County cop who chased Sinclair for years, entered a ministorage shed near Sumas in 1990, he discovered a pile of evidence and a mountain of conflicting ideas about Sinclair and his crimes.
In the bottom of a barrel in the shed were a yellow flowered bed sheet and pillows. They matched the linen used to strangle and wrap the body of 18-year-old Amanda Stavik.
Stavik, a Central Washington University student, vanished Thanksgiving Eve 1989 while jogging. Her body was found Nov. 27 in the South Fork of the Nooksack River. There was evidence of rape.
Another item to emerge from the shed was a school yearbook. Leafing through it, investigators saw Stavik's picture. She had been a classmate of Sinclair's son.
Piccini, diligently running down a missing-person report from his own county, had discovered a sex crime that called into question the profile of a man then sought as "The Coin Shop Killer."
"It was hard to define Sinclair; he was all over the map," said Piccini, who retired as Jefferson County sheriff in December.
Amanda Stavik Went Jogging 20 Years Ago and Ended Up Naked and Dead