New DNA analysis could crack 30-year-old murders of Victoria couple
EVERETT, Wash. — Cutting-edge DNA analysis is opening new investigative avenues for police, including sheriffs in Washington state who have been looking into the 30-year-old murders of a young couple from British Columbia.
The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office has called a news conference for Wednesday in Everett, Wash., to discuss the murders of 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and 20-year-old Jay Cook, both from the Victoria-area.
No arrests have ever been made in the murders of the high school sweethearts, who vanished on a trip to the Seattle area in late 1987.
Their bodies were found a few weeks later in separate locations in Washington state. Cook had been strangled while Van Cuylenborg had been sexually assaulted and shot.