GUILTY WA - Jody Loomis, 20, Mill Creek, raped/shot, 23 August 1972, *Arrest in 2019 DNA*

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Thursday, Dec. 17th:
*Follow Up Motion Hearing (@ 1pm PT) – WA – Jody Loomis (20) (Aug. 23, 1972, Mill Creek) - *Terrence Miller (30 @ time of crime/77/now 78) arrested (4/10/19), charged (4/12/19) & arraigned (4/15/19) with 1st degree premeditated murder. Plead not guilty. $1M bond reduced (5/31/19) to $750K, back (7/17/19) to $1M. Out on bond.
Parabon Nanolabs/GEDMatch (DNA match from a coffee cup to that of semen collected from Loomis’ boots).
Release on bond conditions: having to wear an ankle monitor and only being permitted to leave the house for certain reasons such as the court, grocery shopping & doctor’s appointments.
Trial began on 10/26/20 (3 to 4 week trial to 11/16). Jury selection was from 10/19 to 10/23/20. Jury: 7 women & 5 men. Jurors deliberated for about 6 hours & found him guilty on 11/9/20.
Court info from 4/12/19 thru 10/16/20 & Jury selection (10/19-10/23/20) & Trial Day 1-10 (10/26/20-11/6/20) reference post #110 here:
VERDICT WATCH - WA - Jody Loomis, 20, Mill Creek, raped/shot, 23 August 1972, *Arrest in 2019 DNA*
11/9/20 Trial Day 11 Monday: Jurors reconvened Monday morning, and shortly afterward informed the court that they had reached a verdict. The judge & legal teams from both sides were informed, and directed to be in court at 1pm to hear the jury’s decision. Miller died of an apparent suicide early Monday morning, just before 10am in his Edmonds home. Miller's manner of death was ruled a suicide, and his cause of death was a gunshot wound, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner said. Just hours before the jury pronounced him guilty in the 1972 cold-case murder of then 20-year-old Jody. As soon as the jury was seated, Judge David Kurtz informed them that Miller had died, but despite this the court would proceed with reading the verdict. The jury foreman then passed Kurtz the slip of paper with the verdict: guilty as charged of first-degree murder. A follow-up hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 17 to determine whether Miller's family should pay fines. Prosecutor Craig Matheson said, "I think we should put this to bed properly," while Miller's public defender Laura Martin said there would be "no public benefit in the court actually proceeding to take the verdict in this case, because you cannot sentence Mr. Miller."

 

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It should have been sentencing day for Terrence Miller, who lived 48 years without facing the consequences for killing Jody Loomis, 20, on a sunny August day in what is now Mill Creek.

But there was no defendant in the courtroom.

In a unique hearing for a unique case Thursday afternoon, Superior Court Judge David Kurtz upheld a guilty verdict for Miller, 78, the Edmonds man who killed himself last month as a jury deliberated — and convicted him a few hours later — in the 1972 killing.

[...]

“Truth never dies,” Jody Loomis’ sister said. “They thought it was going to die. They thought it was so old that we wouldn’t be able to follow through with the truth. And this helps, this helps.”

Despite suicide, judge upholds conviction in 1972 murder | HeraldNet.com

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In 1972, the body of Jody Loomis is found in the woods. 34 years later, the killer's DNA is recovered from Jody's clothing but it isn't matched until 2018, when genetic genealogy helps point to one suspect, in Season 2, Episode 12, "Woman in the Woods."

 

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