On August 23, 1972, 20-year-old Jody Loomis left to ride her horse and was last seen on a 10-speed bicycle near the Bothell-Everett Highway around 5:00 p.m. Later that day a couple driving on a secluded dirt road found Loomis; she had been sexually assaulted and shot in the head. She was taken to a hospital but died from her injuries.

Investigators preserved a semen sample from one of Loomis’s boots. In 2008 a DNA profile was developed from that evidence but produced no matches in the national database. In 2018 detectives pursued genetic genealogy and identified a potential suspect; they obtained a discarded coffee cup and compared the DNA to the boot sample, which produced a match. An arrest was made in April 2019 and charges were filed for first-degree murder.

The case spanned decades of evidence preservation and new forensic techniques. Does anyone with memories of the Bothell-Everett area in 1972 or who knew Jody and her routines have information that could add context to this case?