SEATTLE (AP) — The parole of a man who has served seven years of a 10-year prison sentence for a cold case murder conviction is on hold.
KING-TV reports John Nicholas Athan was scheduled to walk out of prison Monday, but the the state Indeterminate Sentence Review Board says it first wants to hear from a sister of the victim who could not be reached earlier.
The 43-year-old Athan was convicted in 2004 of second-degree murder in the 1982 killing of Kristen Sumstad when he was 14 and she was a 13-year-old neighbor in Seattle. The case went unsolved for two decades until police got a DNA sample from Athan by tricking him into licking an envelope.
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Information from: KING-TV, http://www.king5.com/
