The Murders of Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenborg
4 min readMar 4, 2019
In 1987, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg were a young couple from Saanich, British Columbia. Jay, 20, and Tanya, 18, had met in high school. They’d been dating for six months when the two decided to visit Seattle to pick up a part for Jay’s father’s business.
Jay and Tanya left in Jay’s father’s 1977 Ford Club van, taking the ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles, Washington. They…