The suspect in the 2002 murder of Sharon Van Gilder and three violent Tacoma rapes has been arrested and extradited from Mexico, according to a media release from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
In March 2002, the body of Sharon Van Gilder was found unclothed on the side of the road in the 15600 block of 74th Avenue East.
After speaking to witnesses at a bar in Tacoma, detectives found out she was last seen leaving the bar with Urbano-Vazquez. In 2012, a detective with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department discovered three rapes that occurred at around the same time as the murder.The DNA evidence from the three rapes also matched the DNA in the murder investigation.
In 2019, the FBI notified the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office they had found Urbano-Vazquez in Mexico.
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