A Washington state man has been found guilty of murdering a young Canadian couple in 1987.
Jurors deliberated for more than two days before finding William Talbott II, 56, guilty of killing Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and her boyfriend, Jay Cook, 20, reported the Daily Herald.
Talbott wasn't arrested until last year, when authorities said they used a genealogy website to identify him as the person who left his DNA on one of the victims.
The former truck driver, from Seattle-Tacoma, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.
When he is sentenced on July 24, he will likely be facing life in prison.
William Talbott II, 56, of Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder on Friday. Pictured: Talbott is helped to a wheelchair by Snohomish County Sheriff's Deputies after being found guilty
He was convicted in the killings of Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18 (left), and her boyfriend Jay Cook, 20 (right), in November 1987. The couple, from Saanich, British Columbia, were on an overnight trip to Seattle when they were found dead
Prosecutors said that, on November 18, 1987, Van Cuylenborg and Cook were driving a van from their hometown of Saanich, in, British Columbia, to Seattle for an overnight trip.
When they didn't return, their families began a frantic search for them, including renting a plane to try to spot the copper-colored Ford van they had been driving.
About a week later, Van Cuylenborg's body was found down an embankment in rural Skagit County, north of Seattle.
She was naked from the waist down and had been shot in the back of the head.
Hunters found Cook dead two days later in brush near a bridge over the Snoqualmie River in Monroe, about 60 miles from where his girlfriend was discovered.
He had been beaten with rocks and strangled with twine and two red dog collars, authorities said.
The couple's van was found in Bellingham, Washington, near a bus station. Van Cuylenborg's pants were in it,
