TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS

Jay Cook and Tanya Van

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Cuylenborg left Victoria on Nov. 18, 1987 for what was supposed to be a quick trip to Seattle.

The couple caught the MV

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Coho ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles, arriving at about 5:30 p.m. They missed a turnoff, so stopped at a local grocery store.

They got to Allen, Wash., at

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about 9:30 p.m. and stopped at a deli. At 10:16 p.m., they bought a ticket for the Bremerton ferry to Seattle, which would have put them in the city about 11:30 p.m.

The pair had planned to sleep

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in the van near the former Kingdome stadium. A missing persons report was filed two days later, according to news archives.

Cook’s body was found days

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later dumped on the side of the road in Snohomish County, covered with a blue blanket. He had been strangled.

On Nov. 24, a man walking

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on an isolated road near Alger, south of Bellingham in Skagit County, discovered Van Cuylenborg’s body in a ditch. She had been sexually assaulted and shot in the back of the head with a .38-calibre firearm. She had been restrained with zip-tie-type fasteners.

The following day, her wallet,

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her ID, keys for the van, a pair of surgical gloves and a partial box of ammunition were found under the back porch of a Bellingham pub. The brown van that the couple had been driving was found a block away from the pub beside the Greyhound bus station, locked and in a parking lot.

A witness told police it had

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been there since Nov. 21.

Some of the couple’s items

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were missing — a green backpack and a men’s black jacket, as well as Van Cuylenborg’s Minolta camera, which has never been found, although its lens turned up at a Portland pawnshop in 1990.