The Deck - Tira Snyder (Jack of Hearts, Washington)

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

Our card this week is Tira Snyder, the Jack of Hearts from Washington. The afternoon of July 1st, 1985, was supposed to be a mundane Monday for Tira Snyder. The 19-year-old wife and mother was going to run some errands and make dinner before her husband got home from work. Nothing that day went as planned. And Dave Snyder would never get another mundane day with his wife again.If you know anything about the 1985 murder of Tira Snyder in Snohomish County, Washington, please call [phone] or submit an anonymous tip by visiting this link. To apply for the Cold Case Playing Cards grant through Season of Justice, visit www.seasonofjustice.org. Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuckFacebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllc The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. Instagram: @ashleyflowersTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieTwitter: @Ash_FlowersFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AFFollow The Deck on social media and join Ashley’s community by texting [phone] to stay up to date on what's new!

Our card this week is Tyruss Snyder, the Jack of Hearts from Washington. The afternoon of July 1st 1985 was supposed to be a mundane Monday for Tyruss Snyder. The 19-year-old wife and mother was going to run some errands and make dinner before her husband got home from work. But nothing that day went as planned, and Dave Snyder would never get another mundane day with his wife again. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. It was around 8pm.m. on a Monday, and Dave Snyder was at the tail end of a long drive home after an even longer day of work.

While driving through the hills and trees between Bellevue and Lake Rosager where he lived, Dave was listening to the Seattle Mariners game on his boom box. Not his car radio, his boom box. Hello 1985. The game was just getting good as Dave pulled into his driveway, but that's when he noticed something strange. His wife, Tira, had parked in his spot. Tira usually parked in the spot closer to the house because it was easier to get their baby in and out of the car.

And there was something else he noticed. The downstairs window of the garage was left open and the screen inside the window had been fully removed. Dave wasn't freaking out at first because he just assumed that Tira locked herself out and had to remove the window screen to get inside. But that rationale vanished when D Dave approached the house and saw that the door was also wide open. And not far away from that doorway is the dining room where he sees Tear on the ground.

And thinks maybe she's fallen down and so he goes over to check on her and realizes that she's gravely injured. And he immediately is concerned for the whereabouts of their six month old daughter Molly. That's Detective Dave Billew, with the Sonahomish County Sheriff's Office. He said Dave couldn't find the baby anywhere in the house, so he ran back outside where he found Molly, still sitting in her car seat. It was after finding Molly that Dave called 911. He told the dispatcher that his wife may have fallen, but he couldn't tell exactly what her injuries were.

He just knew that she needed help because she was unresponsive. So the county officials followed their typical protocol for a call like this, and they informed the local fire department and EMTs. When first responders arrived minutes later, they found Tira on her back with her hair covering her face and there was blood on one of her shoulders and torso. As they got a little closer, they could tell that Tira hadn't fallen.

She had been shot multiple times. So they immediately called the Sheriff's Office, and after they arrived, the EMTs on the scene took Molly to a nearby volunteer fire station while investigators tried to calm Dave down. He was absolutely distraught. He tried to provide as much information as he could. One of the responding sheriff's office personnel had to write a statement for him that night. He was incapable of writing a statement. He was blaming himself if I had not worked late, if I had not, had a beer with my coworker at that side job,

I would have been home. This wouldn't have happened. Investigators called Dave's dad Donald to come be with his son. But before authorities could notify the rest of Tira's family, a car pulled up to the house. It was Tira's brother, Brett, and her mom, Marlene. They decided to check on Teara after not being able to get a hold of her earlier in the

evening. Here is Marlene recalling that day. That night, I kept trying to call her and her phone was busy and busy for hours and hours and so my son,, and I got my car and drove to your home. And that's when all the police cars were around there. And then the policeman came up and asked what I was and told me. While Tira's family was trying to come to terms with all of this, officials got to work searching the scene. The Snyder's were in the middle of construction to their house. so the outside had things

like dirt mounds and wood planks and whatnot sitting around, which made the task of looking for things that might be out of place a little more difficult. Investigators did isolate four shell casings, but as it would turn out, they weren't from the events that killed Tira. Dave's dad, Donald, said that he and Dave had just done some target shooting in the driveway, and police confirmed that the shell casings did in fact match Donald's revolver, which he turned over to officials. In addition to that, though, they also found a Cours beer can across the street, some tire marks, and a Budweiser beer can near Tira's car. And in her car, they found her keys, purse, and Molly's diaper bag, as well as some

bags of groceries. Now, the inside of the house was pretty orderly for the most part, except for a lamp that was knocked over, but Dave couldn't remember if he knocked it over when he was frantically searching for their baby, or if it was like that when he got home. All of the blood around here as body was very contained, and there were zero shell casings found near her. Only fragments. There were only a couple blood spots found on the carpet just outside of the living room,

so those sections of carpet were cut up and collected as evidence. Investigators also noticed that Tira's body was covered in these tiny black particles which they determined to be unburnt gunpowder residue. They went ahead and collected the residue as best they could, but it's unclear even today if that type of substance holds any actual forensic value. Now there was one additional grocery bag in the kitchen that matched the one that they found in Tira's car. So that, combined with the fact that Molly was left unharmed inside the car, made investigators theorize that Tira had just gotten home and was unloading the groceries

when she was attacked. And that, in turn, led them to home in on one potential motive. You know, we theorize, did Tira come home and interrupt a burglary and become a homicide victim because of that. The detectives that worked this case were very, very hard in the 1990s. That was the theory they worked on. Detectives canvassed the Snyder's neighborhood to try and figure out if anyone heard or saw anything unusual on the afternoon or evening before.

And they got their first solid leads this way. The first came from an unidentified witness who said that they had been driving by the Snyder home between 345 and 415 on July 1st. And that's when they saw an old truck parked there. They said it looked to be a 60s or 70s era white Ford pickup with a red stripe and big tires. Another helpful tip came from another neighbor, a guy named Greg O'Brien. The houses in the Lake Rosager neighborhood aren't super close together even today. It's a community situated in a circle around this big lake. And Dave and Tyruss House was actually up on a hill.

But Greg O'Brien would have been one of their closest neighbors. Mr. O'Brien was standing in front of his residence between 5.30 pm and 6.00 pm when he thought he heard a girl scream and what sounded like five gunshots. Because of it being the 4th of July holiday, he dismissed the gunshots as firecrackers. And I described earlier the sequence that he thought he heard two slow shots followed by three quick ones. That same day they talked to Greg, Tuesday, July 2nd.

Pathologist Clayton Haberman conducted Teara's autopsy, which to some extent supported what Greg heard. Teara had been shot multiple times. Detective Bill you believes Teara's killer shot her several times in the torso and once just above her belly button but below her her sternum, and then kept shooting after Tira fell on the floor. They come back to, if you get shot in the chest of the stomach, are you gonna continue to stand upright

or are you gonna punch over and pain, which would potentially change the location of the subsequent shots. So we theorize based upon the location of the shots that the ones you see to her torso and then to her face and her head are likely when she's already down on the ground. The exact number of gunshot wounds Tyrassufford is off the record, but I can tell you that Tyrass was shot with a 22 caliber gun and she had no gunshot wounds directly to the

back, only exit wounds. So it's assumed that she was attacked from the front. There was also no sign of sexual assault. Tiro was fully dressed when Dave found her, safe for her shoes, which were sitting neatly at the top of the stairway where Tiro usually took them off. The next day, Wednesday, July 3rd, police got a tip from someone who said that they had seen a man standing under the Snyder's deck on the day of the murder. The tipster described the man as white,

early to mid-20s, 6 feet tall, medium-build, with a beard and shoulder-length wavy dark ground hair. Police got a sketch artist to work up a composite and they got a Bolo sent out to area patrols that same day. But the third day passed, then the fourth with no sign of their mystery man. So on July 5th, detectives were turned to the neighborhood for more canvassing efforts, which turned up some good leads. They talked to another neighbor, a guy named Al Vernon, who said that he was driving his tractor by the Snyder house at around 5.30 p.m. on the first, and he didn't see any cars in the driveway.

But, when he drove past the house again about 20 minutes later, there was a white car parked outside. Now, presumably, this is Tira's car. There was another neighbor who saw Al Vernon out on his tractor that day, which helped confirm the timeline. But even more interesting, this other neighbor said that he thought he'd heard someone screaming near the Snyder house at around 5.30 or 6. Alvernin also shared something interesting with detectives.

It turns out, Tira's husband, Dave Snyder, wasn't the only Dave Snyder who lived in the area. He was one of two, and the other Dave Snyder, who lived just a few miles away, was rumored to have ties to a biker gang. The insinuation Al was making was when the neighborhood quickly latched on to for a possible motive. Tira was killed by mistake. It's possible that whoever killed her meant to kill the other Dave Snyder's wife. And this idea was bolstered among locals when they found out both Dave Snyder's shared

more than just a name and a neighborhood. They also had a mutual connection, a man named Danny Snyder's shared more than just a name and a neighborhood. They also had a mutual connection. A man named Danny Snyder. Now Danny is the brother of our main Dave Snyder, the one married to Tyra. Investigators know that other Dave, the Dave who was rumored to be in a gang, they know that he knew Danny too, but they're not 100% sure how they were first connected. They assume that it was likely just through them both being from the same area. Over the next few days, detectives caught up with other Dave and his wife, Evie.

And Evie gave detectives a bit of a weird statement about the day of Teara's murder. Here's Detective Bill you reading it. Under the life first of 1985, shortly after six in the evening, I left my residence to drive to Tiristana's residence so that I could pay her for my Tupperware. As I approached her house for a reason unknown to me, I shielded my eyes and drove by. I did notice that her car was there and that the space next to her car was empty. I went to the state park nearby for a short time, and then I spent the rest of the time at the boat launch a little further south. When I drove back by Tears Residence,

the aid truck and one fire truck were there, I then continued on home. So Evie puts herself driving to Tears House just as the murder is happening, shielding her eyes for who knows what reason. This gives me flashbacks to Darling Holt's story from the Deccanvestigates. There was a person that our crime assessment expert homeed in on for this very reason. But maybe it means nothing? Maybe she was just sharing what had happened, even if there is no logical

explanation for it. Evie's husband, other Dave, didn't have anything meaningful to add about the day Tira was murdered. But he did give Detective some interesting information about the day before. He told investigators that Tira's brother-in-law, Danny Snyder, and another person, named Leonard Maine, were over at his house, and Danny was acting a little off. The guys were drinking a little wine and beer and smoking some weed and Danny started talking about problems he was having with his wife. Danny claimed to have put a gun to his wife's head and told her not to give him any more crap. Now this story is alarming on its own but there was a specific small detail within the

story that gave investigators pause. That gun that Danny pulled on his wife, but there was a specific small detail within the story that gave investigators pause. That gun that Danny pulled on his wife was a 22 caliber, the same type that killed Danny's sister in La Tira. Before going straight to Danny though, detectives first tracked down Leonard main to hear his side of the story, and Leonard confirmed what they had already heard. He even added a little more. He told them that before they'd gone to other Dave's house, he and Danny Snyder had been out target shooting using Danny's 22 caliber pistol. Not proof of anything, no, or not yet anyway,

but they knew that they needed to get their hands on that gun. The detective then asked Leonard where he had been on July 1st. And at first, he said he couldn't remember. And then he said he thought he worked with his dad that day. And then he was like, oh, wait, no, actually, I was fishing on Lake Rosaguerr with my sister-in-law, Kathy. And then Leonard was like, you know, now that you mention it, I also rode by the Snyder House that afternoon. They're out on the lake and they discovered they'd forgotten their cigarettes. So they troll

back to the park, which is, you know, just south of the Snyder House. And there is a little quaint little store, the Lake Rosagreke. Anybody who lives on the lake stops by that store. It's almost out of a hallmark movie. And Maine says he hitches a ride on a horse from the park up to the store to get cigarettes, leaving his sister-in-law Kathy in the boat, I guess. So he says he went by the Snyder house at 3 PM and everything looked normal.

He says tears car was in the driveway and the sliding glass door was open. And he said it looked the same on his way back. Leonard told detectives that he and Kathy got done fishing and went by the Snyder House again at 6.30. But that time he didn't pay any attention to what cars were there. Police weren't sure what to make of Leonard's statement, or evies, or the other daves for

that matter. All they could do at that point was track Danny down. And when they did, he was surprisingly forthcoming. He confirmed everything police had heard about him up until that point. He said he was target shooting with Leonard main on the 30th before going over to Dave and Evie Snyder's house and talking with the guys about his relationship problems. And yes, he did threaten his wife with a 22 caliber revolver. But, Danny said, that gun was one he borrowed. It was his dad's. And his dad had already turned it over to authorities after they found the shell casings in the driveway

the day of Tira's murder. Police did eventually do ballistics testing on that gun, but they determined it wasn't the one that fired the shots that killed Tira. They even saved all the test firings from this gun and resubmitted them for testing recently to verify their results. Danny also had an alibi for the murder, or ish. He said he worked until 5pm on July 1st in Seattle and couldn't remember exactly what he did after work. But he could remember that he was asleep when he got the call that Tyra had been shot. If Danny was getting off work in Seattle at 5, the earliest he could have been getting

to Lake Rosager was 6pm, and that's if there was no traffic, which was unlikely at rush hour on a Monday. So Danny was seeming like another dead end. But even though that didn't lead them anywhere, or the whole gang angle didn't either, they had heard something else along the way that might give them a new avenue to pursue. It was related to something concerning Tyra shared before her death. There is a conversation that she had with her best friend prior to her murder where she told her best friend that she had gone to see her pastor at the local seventh day, administer chair and ever where she told her pastor she feared for her life. the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of his appointment book, but could not locate an actual date and time that Tira had paid him a visit.

Unfortunately, the case file doesn't provide any written statement from Pastor Osborne. But there are notes that say that Tira told him she was afraid because she had told somebody, some information that may have caused a person to go to jail. Ultimately, the pastor honestly wasn't much help because he didn't recall Tira being more specific than that. And listen, I know this feels like a ridiculous lead to just brush over, but when we ask Detective Bill you about it

to try and get more information, he said that when he last attempted to track down Pastor Osborne for a fresh statement, he called the 7th day of Entis Church, where the pastor worked in 1985. But someone answered and said that that name didn't even ring a bell, suggesting that police might have the wrong church or congregation. So Pastor Osborne, if you're out there, police would love to talk to you again. Without him, investigators tried to see if there was anybody connected to the Snyder's that raised any red flags by learning more about them.

And they did. They found out that Tyra's husband, Dave Snyder, dabbled in some small-time pot dealing. And they eventually tracked down somebody who said that Tyra had an encounter with one of her husband's clients that made her uncomfortable. Then she told me if I saw him to get the money back. Reading between the lines and that statement, it sounded to me like he just showed up. And she was like, here, just go away.

When I asked Dave Snyder, he remembers the name, but he doesn't ever remember him coming to the house. We were asked to refer to this guy by his initials, J-H. Now, according to Dave Snyder, yes, he did sell weed. But he never had his buyers come to the house, he said. He would meet them at different, more neutral locations, and he was super selective about who he sold to. So he says it was a small group of people.

What made this tip extra interesting, though, was that J.H. matched the composite sketch police had put out. So on July 24th, detectives interviewed J.H. but he denied owning a 22 caliber gun. He couldn't remember where he'd been on the day of the murder, but he did recall learning about Tears' death on July 2nd. So again, another dead end. The rest of the year passed with little movement. Dave couldn't bring himself to move back into the house,

so he and Molly stayed with family and their house sat empty. It was burglarized once, if not twice, in the months after Teara's murder, but as far as police can tell, the crimes weren't actually connected. Just bad people taking advantage of a family in an awful situation. By the end of 1985, there was one last person

investigators needed to interview. Someone who actually checked quite a few of the investigative boxes, but had sat on kind of the fringes of the family, which is why he wasn't interviewed sooner. Now, similar to J.H., we can't use his real name, but we did get permission to use his initials as well. So I'll refer to this person as M.H.

M.H. was married to Teara's sister Shannon at one point. But according to Shannon, he was extremely abusive, so they were a strange at the time of Teara's murder. Here's Teara's sister Shannon explaining her relationship with MH. We weren't together, we weren't together for a reason. He was very much into drugs, dealing, okay. And I had wanted to be so far away from him and want that in my life. I had a new baby and it was pregnant.

And I needed a way from him. I don't even, I don't remember if he was even at the funeral. I don't recall. Detective Bill, you said that the thing that made investigators feelers go up about MH was not just his violent past, but also the fact that he took a somewhat random solo road trip out of town the day after Tiro was murdered. Now police did actually get a statement from him pretty soon after the murder and he told him that yeah he had left town,

but he claimed that he came back after a day or two. So his sister-in-law has just been murdered, and it's not a sister-in-law that he only knew through marriage. These folks all grew up by each other, so it was known Shannon and Tyra for years. So it's not just his grieving estranged wife, it's his extended family and extended friends that are now grieving the loss of Tyra

and takes a solar road trip based from Washington. Something detectives kept coming back to was the fact that Tyra didn't park in her usual spot in her driveway. Some speculate that she did that because someone else, someone she knew was parked in her spot when she got home that day. So when I think about... In the potential theory of did she come home and recognize a vehicle, they're for

a comfortable enough to walk in, take her shoes off, and then confront a known person. Whoever killed her put a lot of bullets in her. And a number of those bullets appear to have come when she was down on the ground on her back. Is that consistent with a burglar who just got caught burglarizing her home? Or is that more consistent with somebody you know who's angry with you?

Or has some sort of emotional attachment to you and is venting their anger at that moment? And remember the old truck, a witness described seeing at Teera's house that day? Well, M.H. has a thing for old trucks. Like old trucks are his main hobby. Can you see what trucks were registered to have back then? Potentially.

I don't know if our Department of Licensing has records back that far. I am very suspicious of...he has not been eliminated. Tira's case slowed way down after the MH lead. Detectives were working different angles related to MH.H. but I think the theory lacked a real motive. I mean, there were some rumors that maybe he liked, Tira. So I think the thinking was like, oh, did she turn down his advances and then he killed her out of rage.

I mean, that could happen, but they just didn't have anything concrete pointing to that. And it's not like he would have shown up there for anything related to his drug dealings. MH was into cocaine, and police said Dave only dealt weed, nothing harder. They also couldn't ever connect him to a 22, so no murder weapon, no motive, just a lot of speculation that continued to linger. In 1986, Tira's family put up a $20,000 reward for any information that could help them get closer to figuring out what happened to her. And they did their absolute best to try and keep their close family unit together.

Here's Tira's mom we're calling that time. The whole family rented a cabin at Lake McMurray and we just not only are family, but like by mother-in-law. And she came and we just kind of bonded together as a family. And I cried a lot. They had each other, but in the years that followed, they still wouldn't have answers. Nothing even came close. That is, until 1991,

when a tip came in that said four men had been at a bonfire party bragging about killing Tira. Detectives zoomed in on the four individuals that were named. Two brothers, Lyle and Lloyd Bogart, their cousin Byron Bowman, and an acquaintance of theirs, Jim Gilligan.

Now, the Bogart family name was familiar. Detective Bill used said that there are large family in Stohomish County, and anyone who's worked in law enforcement there for more than a few years knows the Bogarts. But the tips that were coming in relating to tiras murder were mostly second or third hand. Well, the bogarts and bullmen were prolific burglars, and they were committing burglars frequently

all over the county, including the granite falls like Rosager area. So much, though, that the investigation resulted in some of the bullgarts going to prison for burglars. But none of the investigations resulted in any evidence connecting the men to Tyros death. And the case detectives had started to build against this suspect group started to fall apart when they realized

that the ring leaders had pretty solid alibis. Lloyd was living in Turner, Oregon, which I think is near Salem. The day of the murder was contacted on a traffic stop by the Turner Police Department. Not only did Lloyd have proof he was in another state the day that Tiro was killed, he also had gotten medical treatment after a motorcycle crash on July 1st 1985 in Oregon, and he had the receipts to prove it. But what about Lyle Bogart? Well, he also had an alibi, though it wasn't quite as strong. And you guys aren't going to believe this, but Lyle was also in a motorcycle crash that ended up being a huge part of his alibi. Over Memorial Day Week and in 85, Lyle was in Eastern Washington and got into an accident

and broke his leg. The next day he traveled back here to Everett and sought treatment at what's now called Providence Hospital in North End of town, and he ended up in a full leg cast. When did he get a lot? Well, that's one of the unanswered questions. We have theorized could Lyle Bogart continue with his residential burglary ways with a cast on, I suppose, so be difficult. He was by more than one account on crutches with a full-length cast. Now, Kud Lyle's leg have been healed between late May and late June, enough for him to be back out committing crimes by July 1st.

It's hard to say. There's some information that he may have removed the cast himself at times and then had medical professional reapply a cast for whatever reason. So there's no definitive answer as to when the cast came off, Lyle Bogart, but we have police reports and medical documents showing that both of these Bogart's Lyle and Lloyd did receive injuries, broken legs, one in Eastern Washington, one in Oregon, on the date of the murder or in close proximity. Detectives didn't want to drop the Bogart angle altogether, because what about their

associates, Byron, Bowman, and Jim Gilligan? They decided to give both of them polygraphs. Gilligan passed two different tests, but Bowman showed deception during questions like, were you involved or were you present or do you know who killed Tira? Interestingly, Bowman was released from jail in early June 1985, and he couldn't account for his exact whereabouts on July 1st. But he claimed that he was living clear on the other side of the state in Spokane, Washington with his girlfriend. Now the Bowguards were also polygraphed, and each of their results came back mixed.

Lloyd's test was inconclusive and Lyle showed deception when asked, were you involved or present? Not exactly hard evidence linking them to Tira's murder. Though there was something linking them to Tira herself, at least potentially. Another twist in this investigation is that the snipers, the boguards, and the bombants all grew up in relative close geographical proximity to each other in new of or new each other growing up. Detective submitted several items to the FBI lab. Recovered fired bullets from Tira's body during her autopsy, carpet samples, blood, hairs,

metal fragments, some fibers, and gunpowder. But not much came of it. So going into 1992, investigators were at a bit of a standstill. Until a weird development popped up. Rumor started swirling that a 22 revolver with ties to the Bogart family was being tossed around like a hot potato. And this is a little while, but this gun managed to find its way onto a Russian merchant ship in the port of Seattle and took a ride all the way over to Russia, which back in the 90s would have been the Soviet Union. And somehow, some way, the State Department and the customs got involved and recovered the gun.

And it was transported back here to the Sheriff's Office. And there was a bit of a fanfare event in the then elected sheriff's office with detective slack and one of the members of the media. Remember the customs with the local media where they actually took a picture? He's not kidding. This development dominated regional news when it happened. Headlines read, Weapon Link to Murder Composcated in Russia. But be careful what you print and careful what you read.

Because the gun was sent to the lab for ballistics testing, and it was determined that this 22 caliber revolver was not the gun that killed Tira. So once again, investigators weren't able to find the probable cause they needed to seal the deal with the boguards and bomen. So that was that. In 1993, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office in conjunction with the prosecutor's office opened up an inquiry court proceeding. Basically, Washington states equivalent to a grand jury. The proceeding was top secret, so I don't know what happened.

All I know is that it didn't result in anyone being prosecuted for Tyra's murder. After that, Tyra's case came to a screeching halt, and it stayed like that for more than a decade. By 2008, Tyra's Snyder's face, name, and details of the crime against her were printed in the Sinahomish County Sheriff's Office cold case deck in hopes of doing what we know these cards are intended to do. Spark up conversation and try to generate fresh leads. Nothing significant came from it, but just the exercise of putting together the deck got a new generation of detectives revisiting and retesting old evidence in some of their cases. Teiras being one of them.

In 2009, the Budweiser beer can that was found in the Snyder's driveway was tested. And they were able to generate a partial male profile from it. All we know about that was they compared it to Teiras husband Dave and it wasn't a match to him. Now it's unclear if other samples had been tested back in 2009 against the profile, but in recent years, investigators have been unable to collect reference samples from many persons of interest. Detective Bill Euth took over Tira's case in 2018, and he got to work doing fingerprint comparisons, and he even revisited the partial profile on that beer can. With even

more advanced testing, that beer can partial profile was determined to actually be a mixture from two contributors. But the major contributor is male. They were able to separate the profiles out and run the male profile through Codis, but there weren't any hits in the database. In May of 2021, police tried to resubmit some of the fired bullets for ballistics testing at the Washington State Crime Lab. And that helped narrow down the type of gun that could have been used to kill Tira, but the details of those gun brands and types is being kept under wraps. In 2022, Detective Bill E. Re submitted the carpet samples to the lab, and they were able

to isolate blood on the sample that belonged to Tira. But they also obtained a partial profile from another spot that indicated it belonged to Tira and an unknown contributor who wasn't Dave, and it wasn't a match for the profile from the Budweiser beer can. Tips in Tira's case over recent years have been minimal. Detective Bill U is still working on trying to get more DNA evidence off the carpet squares, and he's doing as many comparison testings as possible with the partial profiles and the latent prints.

While there have been a handful of suspects, Detective Bill you doesn't believe that the motive was robbery. And honestly, something about that motive just isn't landing right with me either, especially considering Tira had said explicitly that she was scared for her life in the months leading up to her death. And let's say she interrupted maybe a burglary in progress? To shoot her as many times as they did in such close range feels excessive, and Detective Bill you agrees. He believes the way she was murdered indicates that this wasn't a random attack. I think this is one person. One person.

Somebody who had a beef with terror. You don't shoot a 19 year old girl like that to just get away. That's personal. 19 years old. A wife, a new mom, a daughter, a sister, for her family, Tira's legacy lives on through Tira's daughter Molly. The whole family just adore Molly, and we all adore each other. She's very special to us, and especially since she looks so much like her mother.

At first it was so hard, and it still is hard, even after all these 36 years, 27 years. It's made me really turn towards the Lord, and a lot of our family has become Christians, because we know she's up there with God and that's where I want to be someday with her and God. If you know anything about the 1985 murder of Tyruss Knighter in Snohomish County, Washington, please call 425-388-3845 or submit an anonymous tip by visiting the link in our show notes. The Deck is an audio chuck production with theme music by Ryan Lewis. To learn more about the Deck and our advocacy work, visit thedeckpodcast.com.

So what do you think Chuck? Do you approve?