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Corpus Delicti

35: Cold Case Dossier: Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we tell Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg's story. These two sweethearts took a trip from Canada to Seattle, but never returned home. There were multiple active serial killers in the area at the time, but no resolution has ever been reached.  Podcast Promo this week: Spoop Hour Get your Sudio headphones or earbuds at Sudio.com and use promo code CORPUS at checkout for 15% off your order!  Join the Corpus Delicti Discussion Group on Facebook   Support the show and gain early access to episodes as well as bonus content at patreon.com/corpusdelicti 
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jay_Cook_and_Tanya_Van_Cuylenborg
https://unsolved.com/gallery/jay-cook-and-tanya-van-cuylenborg/
https://globalnews.ca/news/2079753/crime-stoppers-what-happened-to-jay-cook-and-tanya-van-cuylenborg/
https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/detectives-release-new-sketches-ask-for-help-in-1987-double-murder/281-537349452

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0:00.0

This is Aaron. And this is Shay, the host of all crime no cattle. And you're listening to the

0:05.7

Murderly True Crime Network. Podcasts to die for. Hey, Sasha. Hey, Courtney. Where can you get hot

0:14.7

takes about ghosts, cryptids, farts, and cats? I don't know, where? On our podcast spoof hour.

1:14.6

Oh, that's right. Each week we talk about the things that spook us out and we laugh through our fear. You can find us on Twitter and Instagram at Spooop Hour, and you can listen to our podcast on iTunes, Podbean, or really anywhere else that you get your podcasts. Feel free to also drop us a line at Sp spookhour at gmail.com. We are so excited to have you guys back. We've had tons of projects in the works and we are super excited to share those with you guys.

1:15.6

All right, so we are actually going to start our story today.

1:18.6

And Lindsay, since this was your pick, do you want to go ahead and give some background?

1:22.6

Sure.

1:23.6

So tonight we're going to talk about, of course, we're still in our cold case

1:27.9

dossier series, so we've got another unsolved case for you. Tonight's case is going to be that of

1:34.0

Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cullenborg. Jay Cook was 20 years old and Tanya was 17. They were

1:42.7

residents of Victoria, Canada. So we're back in Canada again.

1:46.4

Now these are like some high school sweethearts. They've been only dating for about six months.

1:51.4

So on November 18th, 1987, they decided that they were going to travel to Seattle, Washington.

1:58.4

No one really knows the reason why, but some say it was just like a little quick romantic getaway.

2:05.3

And others said it was to pick up a part for their dad.

2:08.5

And I just, I don't understand what was so special about Seattle that they couldn't get

2:13.3

whatever part it was for in Canada.

2:16.6

Once they are in Washington, they take the 4 p.m. car ferry.

2:21.9

So this is one of those where you board the ferry.

2:24.1

It takes you and the car across so that you have a means of transportation when you get off

2:29.1

the ferry.

2:30.0

And they took that ferry to Port Angeles, Washington.

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