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the body of 16-year-old Sarah yarboro was found on the grounds of Federal Way High School on a cold morning in
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December 1991 she had gone to school that morning thinking she was late for a drill team
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practice investigators found that she had been strangled to death they were able to collect a full mail DNA profile
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from clothes found near her body but at that time DNA testing was still relatively new 28 years later
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investigators used forensic genetic genealogy to identify a Poss suspect Patrick Nicholas they brought him in for
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questioning why do you think you're here I have no clue when detectives asked him
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specifically about Sarah's murder he gave an alarming response what we're investigating is is the death of a young
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girl her name s interestingly he asked what year this was and that really sent up a flag why
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why would you ask that he's being told this is a murder case we're wondering at this point are there
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other victims this is it I'm not say after 1 and a half hours Nicholas asked for an attorney and stopped
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talking but his criminal record would speak volumes I am the one that got away on a quiet morning in June 1983 8
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years before Sarah Yo's murder 21-year-old Anne crony was sitting by her car along the Columbia River in
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Richland Washington when a man of approached her he seemed normal kind of friendly actually
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just friendly I had asked him if he'd done any water skiing it cuz he said he had just moved to town and he said he
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couldn't swim and he said my name is Pat Nicholas after a few minutes of small talk she became uncomfortable I noticed
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his voice was getting shaky and I told him I had to go I went to close the door and he put a
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knife to my throat everything kind of stopped at that moment he told me to take my clothes off
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Nicholas stuffed Ann's underwear into her mouth to prevent her from screaming forced her out of the car and led her to
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the riverbank that's when an remembered a critical piece of information that might have saved her life we got about
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halfway down the bank and he told me to stop I ran and dove in the river cuz I was thinking he couldn't swim swam as
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hard as I could swam for your life I swam for My Life passers by found Ann at a dock nearby and called police as it
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turns out 19-year-old Patrick Nicholas was no stranger to law enforcement and had a record he had raped two women and
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attempted to rape a third he'd been convicted of rape as a juvenile and had actually only just been
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out for a few months when he attacked me days after Ann's attack he was tracked down down arrested and pled guilty to
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attempted rape he told authorities I realize that I have a problem concerning raping girls at his sentencing hearing
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an spoke out I was actually very angry and asked the judge for the maximum sentence and the judge did agree and
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sentenced him to 10 years so I thought it was over I thought that Justice had been
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served