Brutal killing of a mother and son in 1994 is solved through DNA evidence, police say
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More than 27 years after a woman and her son were killed in a Seattle suburb, authorities have charged a man in their deaths.
Jerome Frank Jones, 51, has been charged with aggravated murder in the 1994 deaths of Stacy Falcon-Dewey, 23, and her 3-year-old son, Jacob Dewey, in Renton, Washington, according to the documents filed Tuesday.
Jones is currently imprisoned for murdering a man in 1995 in California, prosecuting attorney Jessica Berliner said. Online records show he is not eligible for parole in that state until 2030.
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