Tony Clyde Reed, center, appears on a television monitor during his arraignment on two counts of premeditated murder and unlawful gun possession, Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett, WA.
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Surveillance video linked the Reed brothers to the dumping of the couple’s cars over an embankment north of Seattle, authorities said. People were out in the field Tuesday searching for the couple’s bodies, she said, as they have done on multiple occasions since the couple was reported missing last month.
“Detectives have found the remains of two people, one male, one female, in the Oso area”, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Spokesperson Shari Ireton said. “It was very specific information about where those bodies were buried from Tony Reed that helped them locate them”.
For six weeks, authorities said a missing Washington state couple had been slain.
Reed, one of two brothers accused of killing an Arlington couple and hiding their bodies, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Reed’s lawyer, James Kirkham, told the Herald of Everett, that his client is “sympathetic with the family that the bodies haven’t been found” but wouldn’t say if his client could help find them.
Kirkham has said his client is not guilty of first-degree murder and surrendered to defend himself against the charges.
Authorities are still searching for Reed’s 53-year-old brother, John Blaine Reed.
On April 12, neighbors reported Monique Patenaude, 46, and her husband, Patrick Shunn, 45, missing when their livestock was left unattended.
The brothers fled to Mexico after the murder, according to police.
“We haven’t had that conversation”, Craig Matheson with the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office said.
A “fresh” 9-mm shell casing was discovered outside the locked gate on the driveway that leads to the Patenaude and Shunn residence, and also to the former home of John Reed.
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According to charging documents, John Reed was upset that his property had been condemned, and he recently had been angry because the couple had complained that he was squatting at his old house, prompting authorities to warn him to leave.
