FALL RIVER, Mass. — A man convicted of killing his mother and a newlywed Washington state couple has been returned to Massachusetts to face a murder charge in a 1988 slaying, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Daniel Tavares, 47, will be arraigned Monday in Fall River Superior Court, the Bristol County district attorney’s office said. Tavares was indicted in April for the stabbing death of 32-year-old Gayle Botelho.
Botelho, a mother of three young children, disappeared after telling her roommate she was leaving her Fall River apartment for a few minutes. Her remains were found 12 years later in the backyard of a Fall River home where Tavares had lived.
Tavares told authorities where to find Botelho’s body and implicated two other men in her death. Last year a woman who had given Tavares an alibi changed her story.