The DNA That Waited 31 Years: The Murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook
In November 1987, 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and 20-year-old Jay Cook left British Columbia for a routine overnight trip to Seattle. Days later, both were found murdered in rural Washington—Tanya bound, sexually assaulted, and shot in the head; Jay beaten and strangled. The case went cold for more than three decades until investigators used genetic genealogy and a discarded coffee cup to identify William Earl Talbott II.
Host Alexander Lawson examines the 1987 killings, the pioneering DNA investigation that made this one of the first genetic-genealogy cases to reach a jury, the 2019…
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