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from the van, but there was no match on any of the criminal databases. Despite the lack of a match, the police believed that the specific manner in which the victims were killed (which has not been revealed in detail publicly) suggested that the killer was familiar with the prison system. The lack of
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In the months after the murders, both victims' families received a series of taunting greeting cards featuring graphic descriptions of the murders. The cards bore postmarks from
Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York, and were written by the same person. In 2010, it was announced that the writer of the
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Bellingham. The van was found a few blocks away. Inside the van were plastic ties of the same type used to bind Tanya, plastic gloves, and various receipts, including the Bremerton-Seattle ferry ticket, confirming the belief that the couple took the second ferry. However, Tanya's
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William Earl Talbott II had been arrested for the murder of Van Cuylenborg. 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.
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On 11 April 2018, a composite sketch of the suspect was released based on the DNA collected from semen found on Van
Cuylenborg's trousers at the crime scene using a process called "snapshot DNA phenotyping" by
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a match despite a potential prison background could be explained by the suspect having been incarcerated before DNA collection from criminals became commonplace or technologically possible.
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