IAPE Evidence Blog

Los Ange­les Times

Seat­tle, WA

Feb­ru­ary 26, 2010 | 2:12 p.m.

SEATTLE (AP) — DNA evi­dence has led Seat­tle police to arrest an Everett man in what may be one of the department’s old­est cold cases.

A detec­tive arrested 73-year-old Sam Pietro Evans on Thurs­day for inves­ti­ga­tion in the 1972 rob­bery and shoot­ing death of Jack­son Sch­ley and the kid­nap­ping and rape of his wife. Work at a State Patrol crime lab gave police enough infor­ma­tion to make an arrest.

Detec­tive Mike Ciesynksi told The Seat­tle Times that even though the sus­pect is old and infirm, he’s still dan­ger­ous. Evans is sched­uled for a Fri­day bail hear­ing in King County Supe­rior Court.

Inves­ti­ga­tors also are inves­ti­gat­ing Evans in con­nec­tion with an unsolved killing of a man dur­ing a 1968 rob­bery in Seat­tle and the slay­ing of a woman in the early 1970s in Pasco.

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Infor­ma­tion from: The Seat­tle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com

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