For about 30 years, Everett police detectives believed Mary Ann Daniels was killed either by a former lover or the man who managed the transitional apartments she moved into less than three weeks before her nude body was discovered in early Jacquez, who lived in Mount Vernon before moving to Las Vegas in recent years, was charged last week with premeditated first-degree murder, accused of strangling Daniels with a ligature crafted from a bra, purse strap and electrical cord, according to Snohomish County prosecutors.
Jacquez was identified as a possible suspect through forensic, or genetic, genealogy, a technique increasingly being used by law enforcement agencies across the country to identify possible suspects in decades-old crimes.
Forensic genealogy builds family trees from DNA profiles recovered from crime scenes through a combination of traditional genealogy and the DNA profiles of relatives who used sites, such as Ancestry.
After a two-week trial, Miller, 78, was convicted of shooting year-old Jody Loomis in when she was on a bike ride to see her horse. The state expressed concern that Jacquez is a danger to the community and to the administration of justice by failing to appear in court, according to the charges.
Except for a misdemeanor conviction for reckless driving in King County in , Jacquez does not have any prior criminal history, court records show. Daniels, 31, who had a developmental disability, was moved into a former garage that had been subdivided into four rooms in the block of Hoyt Road by her advocate on Jan. Jacquez was then a new resident of the house at the same address, which had also been subdivided. Everett police were called to the garage on Feb.
