On 18 May 2018, the Snohomish County Sheriff announced that William Earl Talbott II had been arrested for the murder of Van Cuylenborg. [13] [14] [15] He was found guilty in June 2019 of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and sentenced to two sentences of life imprisonment without parole. [16] [17]

2022年12月22日 · In 2019, William Talbot the first person convicted by a jury in a case involving genetic genealogy, which has since been used to solve many other cases. Talbott was sentenced to life in...

2021年12月8日 · William Earl Talbott II was convicted of brutally murdering a Canadian couple in 1987 in a case that marked a pivotal point in the use of genetic genealogy to solve cold cases. His conviction was overturned on appeal because of jury bias.

2021年11月20日 · Who Is William Earl Talbott II? Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg went missing while journeying from their home in British Columbia to Seattle. Subsequently, in November of the same year, Cook was found beaten and strangled to death in Snohomish County, Washington State.

2019年9月21日 · When William Talbott II spoke this summer during his sentencing for murdering a young B.C. couple in Washington state more than 30 years ago, he told the court he wasn't a violent person.

2021年12月7日 · William Talbott II, the first person ever to be convicted due to genealogy research, successfully appealed his life sentences for the murders of Tanya van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook, both of...

2019年7月24日 · William Talbott II, center, in escorted to his seat Friday June 28, 2019 at the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett, Wash. William Earl Talbott II has been found guilty in the 1987...

2022年12月22日 · EVERETT — In a unanimous decision Thursday, the state Supreme Court reinstated two aggravated murder convictions for William Talbott II, in the landmark cold case that put “forensic genealogy”...

2019年6月29日 · Authorities used genetic genealogy to identify the suspect as William Earl Talbott II, a construction worker and truck driver who was 24 at the time of the killings and lived near where Cook’s body was discovered.

2019年6月28日 · William Talbott II, center, in escorted to his seat Friday June 28, 2019 at the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett, Wash. William Earl Talbott II has been found guilty in the 1987 killings of...