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B13 TIMES-COLONIST Friday, October 27. 1989 Sweethearts' murder re-enacted, calls flood in By King Lee Times-Colonist staff and the Associated Press watching might be able to identify this methodical killer. "And of course they would like to find out who is writing these tormenting greeting cards. "If anyone has any information that might help solve this case, please contact the Skagit County Sheriff's Office or call our toll-free number 1-800-876-5353." ents who have lost their children. It's Important that this individual be caught." Stack: "There's a frustrating lack of evidence in this case.

Police are fairly certain the killer is an ex-convict familiar with the Washington area. "The hope that he may have talked about his crime and that someone EARLY 300 CALLS were received by early Thursday at the Los Angeles headquarters for Unsolved plastic tie wraps, "We think that the way Jay died was indicative of things thut we've seen before Inside the prison walls. And the things we found on Jay certainly raise the suspicion thut the person or people who did this have been in the prison system before." Stack: "Police believe It most likely Jay and Tanya made their fatal rendezvous with the killer on the 10:20 p.m. ferry from Bremerton to Seattle." Sgt. Bart: "We don't know the killer's intentions when he first met was found 90 miles away in the city of Bellingham." It contained more ties and bloodstains.

"Two blocks away from the van, under the porch of a tavern, police found more plastic ties, the keys to Jay's van, Tanya's driver's licence, and a half-empty box of ammunition. "Significantly they also found a pair of plastic surgical gloves." Det. Robert Gebo, Seattle Police Department: "He leaves those behind as basically a sign to the police that Mysteries concerning the 1977 murder of a young Victoria couple in Washington state. The television program, filmed in and around Victoria, Seattle and Bell-ingham, aired nationally Wednesday night over the NBC network and seen in Victoria on Seattle's KING-TV and i f. 7.

BCTV in Vancouver, featured a segment in which the murders of Tanya van Cuylenborg, 17, and Jay Cook, 20, were re-enacted. Elliott Woodall, public information officer for the Snohomish county sheriffs office, said Thursday that 278 calls were received late Wednesday and early Thursday day on a toll-free phone number available only to U.S. viewers. Producer's of the program say the number of calls is higher than normal, with 100 to 150 such calls received in such instances. In addition, Skagit county police think easily fooled an easy mark." Det.

Gebo: "A person could make contact with them In the lounge on the ferry boat; just asking fur a ride across the Puget Sound. "I think It's safe to say that by the time they exited the ferry In downtown Seattle they probably were in the company of the man that killed them. "It would seem to me that it's logical that this person has committed crimes like this in the past and been successful at them. And having been successful I would say that it is likely they will continue to do them. "He does not want to be caught.

He uses gloves, for example, to not leave obvious forensic fingerprints. "That makes him very dangerous, in my view." Stack: "But the killer might have made one mistake. He may have taken Jay's black waist-length ski jacket with red piping on the sleeves; Tanya's olive-drab day pack. And there is a chance that someone may have noticed him with these incriminating items. "One final note on this sad story.

Over Christmas holidays, just four weeks after the murder of their children, Jay and Tanya's families each received a morbid greeting card. "These cards were filled with taunting descriptions of the murders. And their author claimed responsibility for the killings. "To date, 19 of these greeting cards have been mailed over three different holidays. Their writer, remains a complete mystery.

Postmarked from New York, Los Angeles and Seattle, all of these cards were written by the same author." Panzero: "The handwriting in these letters and cards is very distinctive. And there are some phrases that are very distinctive also. 'Halalelujah Bloody Jesus' is a favorite phrase of his." Sgt. Bart: "We have not found something as of yet in these greeting cards that would tell us absolutely for sure that the person who sent them is sending them is the killer. We don't know." Panzero: "He just continues to make life miserable for these par Sjj! jjj fjili mm (fflilluliy ulT coo Bsasfe WMIM-lu ft 'J fcjlj i "F-VmI Mj'l'ft'y ft1 j'fi uS c-S IPh I SI ln HilWHIVi 3 1 ill I A 1 14 1 1 i ACTORS ON TV portray Jay Cook and Tanya van Cuylenborg taking their fatal trip.

you needn't look for fingerprints because I wore these gloves. He was confident that there's nothing that's going to connect him to these crimes." Gordon Cook (Jay's father): "Even after they found Tanya we hoped against hope that maybe they were going to find Jay alive. I guess you know that's not very likely but you have to keep hoping." Sgt. Bart: "Jay's body was found (U.S.) Thanksgiving Day. He had been definitely murdered.

It was very obvious. We found that Jay had died due to strangulation. He'd been beaten, his hands had been bound with some electrical-tie wraps these two. We feel that he was out to do some harm and certainly to assault both Jay and Tanya. "From what we have found we can say that he had set his sights on Tanya and Jay was in the way." (The dramatization shows Jay and Tanya on a nearly-deserted Bremerton ferry, looking out the window into the dark while two men not with each other sit nearby in centre seats.

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1 FAMILY SIZE! a2! 1199" 999' officials received more than 40 telephone calls after the program. The two Oak Bay High School grads were murdered while on a business trip to Seattle two years ago. Van Cuylenborg was shot in the back of the head. Her partially-clothed body was found south of Bell-ingham, about 30 kilometres south of the border, six days after the couple was last seen. Cook was beaten and strangled.

His body was found southwest of Bellingham, within sight of the Washington State Reformatory honor farm, a minimum-security prison. Police say no one except the killer saw them after they bought a ticket for the Seattle-Bremerton ferry late Nov. 18. Woodall said information from Los Angeles is expected to be relayed soon to Skagit county officials. He said most of it concerns the handwriting in a series of bizarre cards sent to the parents of the dead couple and about Cook's missing jacket and backpack all mentioned in the television segment.

The following is a transcript of the program, narrated by actor Robert Stack: Stack: "November 18, 1987. Jay Cook and his high school sweetheart Tanya van Cuylenborg took a ferry from Victoria, Canada, to Washington State. Tanya was 17 and they were in love. "This was to be their first trip together and they had planned on a romantic weekend." Leona Cook (Jay's mother): "Jay and Tanya had been going out together for about six months, I think. He was either there or she was here.

"I think she was quite special to him." William van Cuylenborg (Tanya's father): "They certainly seemed to be good for each other from everything I could gather. "I certainly had no apprehension about Tanya being with Jay. I felt very comfortable with that. Stack: "But sometime during their journey, Jay and Tanya's peaceful vacation turned into a violent nightmare. "The couple's trip began in Victoria, Canada, where they took the 4 p.m.

car ferry to Port Angeles, Washington. "Jay had borrowed his father's van and after they disembarked from the ferry they were seen twice heading south on Highway 101 once in the Washington town of Hoodsport at approximately 8 p.m. and an hour later at Allyn. "It is believed they were headed towards a second car ferry from Bremerton to Seattle. "Jay and Tanya were expected home the following day, but when they hadn't returned or called by the next evening, their families began to worry." Van Cuylenborg: "If Tanya was late for anything which was not unusual she would phone.

She would always phone. So when Tanya did not phone the next evening when they were supposed to be returning, my wife became apprehensive. So I tried to downplay for my wife's sake and probably to reassure myself that everything would be okay. However, the following day when she didn't call, we knew there was something wrong." Chief Deputy Ron Panzero, Skagit County Sheriff's Office: "Tanya's body was found, partially clothed. She'd been raped and murdered.

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