SPOKANE — Washington State Patrol’s Cold Case Homicide Team will analyze evidence from a 1994 crime scene with new technologies in hopes of finding the DNA of the killer.
On Oct. 24, 1994, Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at 74-year-old Jack LaFond’s trailer for a welfare check. His girlfriend reported he’d missed their dates and she hadn’t been able to reach him, according to court documents.
Seven miles south of Newport near Diamond Lake, they found the trailer door chained shut from the outside and a window broken.
A deputy used a stick to unfasten a wire entwined in the chain. In the trailer, he found LaFond in a pool of blood, the records say.