EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state trucker has been charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder.
55-Year-old William Earl Talbott, of Seattle, was charged Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court, the Daily Herald reports. Talbott is charged in the killings of 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and 20-year-old Jay Cook.
Van Cuylenborg had been sexually assaulted, bound with plastic ties and shot in the head. Investigators say the assault evidence provided a direct link to Talbott.
Authorities say they used information from public genealogy websites to pinpoint Talbott as a suspect then arrested him after getting a DNA sample from a cup that fell from his truck.