EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington man has gone on trial this week on a charge of first-degree murder for a crime committed 48 years ago.
Opening statements began Monday in the Snohomish County Superior Court trial of 78-year-old Terrence Miller.
A couple found 20-year-old Jody Loomis with a gunshot wound to her head on a dirt road in Everett in August 1972. Loomis was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital and the homicide went unsolved for decades.
Miller was arrested in 2019 after being connected to the case through genetic tracing of DNA evidence found on the woman’s boot.