The husband of a one-time Vancouver woman whose remains were found east of Estacada, Ore., last week will soon be extradited from Idaho to face a murder charge in Oregon, Portland police said Tuesday.
Brian Charles Cole, the husband of Heather Dawn Mallory, has waived extradition from Bonner County, Idaho. An exact day of transfer wasn’t immediately known.
Cole was arrested July 1 in Sagle, Idaho, in connection with the slaying of Mallory, whose body was found a day before on Bureau of Land Management forestland off Highway 224.
Mallory, 32, was training to be a chef and living with Cole in Portland when she went missing on March 8, 2008.
The Portland Police Bureau said she’d attended school the day before at the Portland Culinary Institute, worked a shift as a server and spent the night socializing with friends.
When she returned home the next morning, police were told she and Cole argued and she drove away in her Ford Focus, leaving her belongings and son, River, then 3, behind.
Portland police detectives found the Ford three weeks later and continued their investigation in the disappearance.
Nearly three months after her disappearance, police executed a search warrant at the couple’s apartment in Southeast Portland and seized a computer, paperwork and Cole’s pickup as evidence.
Still, Portland police didn’t immediately arrest Cole, lacking enough evidence, including the body, and he moved to the Sandpoint, Idaho, area with the boy.
Cole is being held in the Bonner County Jail on no bail.
