Greater than 27 years after a girl and her son have been killed in a Seattle suburb, authorities have charged a person of their deaths.
Jerome Frank Jones, 51, has been charged with aggravated homicide within the 1994 deaths of Stacy Falcon-Dewey, 23, and her 3-year-old son, Jacob Dewey, in Renton, Washington, in response to the paperwork filed Tuesday.
Jones is at the moment imprisoned for murdering a person in 1995 in California, prosecuting legal professional Jessica Berliner stated. On-line data present he isn't eligible for parole in that state till 2030.
“The defendant sure Stacy Falcon-Dewey, beat her, orally raped her and sure shot her baby to loss of life in entrance of her earlier than killing her. The extraordinary violence and cruelty of those murders demonstrates the acute hazard he presents to society,” the court docket paperwork stated.
Vianne Falcon, Falcon-Dewey’s mom, advised CNN affiliate KING on Wednesday that she was emotionally devastated by the lack of her daughter and grandson.
“I couldn’t consider it,” she stated, referring to the day police advised her in regards to the killings. “And I went operating down the road like a wild girl till I discovered a spot I might simply collapse and cry.”
If convicted, Jones would face a sentence of life in jail with out the potential of parole, the paperwork stated.
Jones’ arraignment is slated for March 1, in response to the Superior Courtroom clerk’s workplace. CNN has reached out to Karim Service provider, Jones’ public defender, for remark.
How police solved the case
The our bodies of Falcon-Dewey and her son have been found on October 28, 1994, after a Seattle Occasions newspaper supply particular person known as 911 and reported seeing the mom’s physique, in response to a possible trigger doc.
When the officers arrived, they discovered the pair mendacity in the course of the roadway subsequent to the mom’s automobile, each shot within the head, the doc stated. The gun used within the killings has not been recovered.
Police say there was a battle on the scene, primarily based on the proof collected.
“As an illustration, a few of the contents of Stacy’s purse have been strewn in regards to the car together with her pockets. The keys to the automobile appeared to have been dropped between the motive force’s seat and the door and weren't readily seen,” the doc says.
An preliminary connection to Jones was established in 2002 via DNA proof, in response to the doc.
In an interview with the suspect in a California jail, Jones confirmed he lived close to Renton from 1994-1995 however denied ever assembly or understanding Falcon-Dewey, the doc stated.
Over the next years, extra proof was submitted for DNA testing — and a big advance was made in December 2021 when DNA traces linked to Jones have been discovered on a jacket worn by Jacob Dewey on the time of his killing, the doc stated. The prior DNA connection between the suspect and swabs taken from Falcon-Dewey was additionally confirmed, it stated.
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