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New tests on DNA collected from a cigarette butt and the inside of a Chevy Blazer helped investigators unravel a grisly 1997 double slaying of a Stevens County mother and her daughter. Investigators have long suspected Charles Tatom, now 73, of the killings. But it wasn't until this year that new evidence gelled with their suspicions to finally get Tatom arrested for the deaths of Marlene Emerson, who was 29, and her 12-year-old daughter, Cassie Emerson. Prosecutors charged him this week with first-degree murder. Marlene Emerson's body was found inside her Colville trailer home that had been razed by fire on June 27, 1997. Her spine had been cut and her throat slit before the fire, according to court documents. Her daughter was nowhere to be found. At the time, investigators believed someone killed Emerson, lit her home on fire and abducted Cassie, according to previous reporting from The Spokesman-Review. They offered a $5,000 reward for information about the girl, who was believed to hold "the key to her mother's death," the former sheriff said in 1997. A month later, Cassie's body was found in a wooded area south of Colville with knife marks on her neck, according to court documents. Investigators said Emerson associated with members of a motorcycle club in Colville at the time of her death. Some members were reportedly upset with her because of her role in a burglary and her cooperation with police in a separate case, according to court records. Some referred to her as a "snitch." Emerson complained of being harassed at her home, including finding bullet holes in her trailer, court records said. She told a friend she "wasn't going to let anyone run her out of town." As the harassment escalated, Emerson's mother later told police, "I told Cassie several times that if anything happened to her or her mom ... she had to call me. She repeated the number over, which she knows by heart, and promised me she would. I asked if she was scared, and she said, 'Yes.' " Tatom, who associated with the same group as Emerson, was said to be "crazy" and violent, according to court records. He told people Emerson owed his friend money. On the night of the killings, witnesses said Tatom left a home with a friend in a Chevy Blazer and came back the next morning with burn marks on his body, court records said. They also claimed he was in possession of a bloody knife he told people was used to gut an animal. Investigators zeroed in on Tatom after an acquaintance was told he had said something about "dragging" the girl away and killing her. People connected to both Emerson and Tatom believed Tatom and another man were present for the killings because the man had told a few people "things got carried away." The other man later died in a plane crash, according to court records. Police tracked down the Chevy Blazer that Tatom was said to have been driving at the time, as corroborated by witnesses who were around during the fire, and found blood stains on the seat, the window and the butt of a cigarette in the car's ashtray. They also found a bag of cassette tapes with Tatom's fingerprints on them. The evidence was collected and preserved for future testing. The window from the car was sampled in 2009, tested for blood and later matched to Cassie in 2013 after investigators exhumed her body. This past summer, forensic scientists once again tested the preserved evidence from the scene. Washington State Patrol Forensic Scientist Brittany Wright indicated in her report that she had strip-tested DNA left on the center console in the Blazer, which came back as a match to Cassie. Wright also tested the DNA left on the cigarette butt. She found Tatom's DNA and parts of Cassie's DNA on the cigarette, court records said. This indicated to her that Tatom had smoked a cigarette after his "contact" with the girl. Documents indicate the case went unsolved for more than two decades because of restrictions on technology and because many of the witnesses feared retribution. Even so, it didn't stop two retired detectives from working the case, Stevens County Prosecutor Erika George said. "With advancements in DNA it was determined that there was potentially evidence that could be tested now that wasn't tested before," George wrote in an email. Prosecutors requested Tatom be held without bail because he has a "propensity for violence," George wrote, and that "there has been no reason for the defendant to think that he was in jeopardy of facing charges or arrest over these matters." "Now, he will be facing the possibility of dying in prison if convicted and will have full knowledge of all the evidence against him and all who have made statements against him," she wrote. Tatom's first appearance in Stevens County Superior Court is set for 11 a.m. Friday. If convicted, he could face life in prison. "I am grateful for the law enforcement agents and officers, who have dedicated more than two decades of their careers to identifying those responsible for Marlene and Cassie's murders," George said in a statement. "The Stevens County Prosecuting Attorney's Office remains committed to holding violent offenders accountable and seeking justice on behalf of victims and their families." ___ (c)2024 The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) Visit The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) at www.spokesman.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.New partnership to boost regional defence and security capabilities

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The military's tradition of tracking Santa Claus on his gravity-defying sweep across the globe will carry on this Christmas Eve, even if the U.S. government shuts down, officials said Friday. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location. Millions more follow online — in nine languages — as St. Nick swoops along the earth's meridians. “We fully expect for Santa to take flight on Dec. 24 and NORAD will track him," the U.S.-Canadian agency said in a statement. On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats, such as last year's Chinese spy balloon. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers in Colorado Springs , Colorado, are fielding questions like, “When is Santa coming to my house?” and, “Am I on the naughty or nice list?” The endeavor is supported by local and corporate sponsors, who also help shield the tradition from Washington dysfunction. Bob Sommers, 63, a civilian contractor and NORAD volunteer, told The Associated Press that there are "screams and giggles and laughter” when families call in, usually on speakerphone. Sommers often says on the call that everyone must be asleep before Santa arrives, prompting parents to say, "Do you hear what he said? We got to go to bed early." NORAD's annual tracking of Santa has endured since the Cold War, predating ugly sweater parties and Mariah Carey classics. Here's how it began and why the phones keep ringing. The origin story is Hollywood-esque It started with a child's accidental phone call in 1955. The Colorado Springs newspaper printed a Sears advertisement that encouraged children to call Santa, listing a phone number. A boy called. But he reached the Continental Air Defense Command, now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, along with anxieties about nuclear war. Air Force Col. Harry W. Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list. “He went on a little bit, and he takes a breath, then says, ‘Hey, you’re not Santa,’” Shoup told The Associated Press in 1999. Realizing an explanation would be lost on the youngster, Shoup summoned a deep, jolly voice and replied, “Ho, ho, ho! Yes, I am Santa Claus. Have you been a good boy?” Shoup said he learned from the boy's mother that Sears mistakenly printed the top-secret number. He hung up, but the phone soon rang again with a young girl reciting her Christmas list. Fifty calls a day followed, he said. In the pre-digital age, the agency used a 60-by-80-foot (18-by-24-meter) plexiglass map of North America to track unidentified objects. A staff member jokingly drew Santa and his sleigh over the North Pole . The tradition was born. “Note to the kiddies,” began an AP story from Colorado Springs on Dec. 23, 1955. “Santa Claus Friday was assured safe passage into the United States by the Continental Air Defense Command.” In a likely reference to the Soviets, the article noted that Santa was guarded against possible attack from "those who do not believe in Christmas.” Is the origin story humbug? Some grinchy journalists have nitpicked Shoup's story, questioning whether a misprint or a misdial prompted the boy's call. In 2014, tech news site Gizmodo cited an International News Service story from Dec. 1, 1955, about a child's call to Shoup. Published in the Pasadena Independent, the article said the child reversed two digits in the Sears number. "When a childish voice asked COC commander Col. Harry Shoup, if there was a Santa Claus at the North Pole, he answered much more roughly than he should — considering the season: ‘There may be a guy called Santa Claus at the North Pole, but he’s not the one I worry about coming from that direction,'" Shoup said in the brief piece. In 2015, The Atlantic magazine doubted the flood of calls to the secret line, while noting that Shoup had a flair for public relations. Phone calls aside, Shoup was indeed media savvy. In 1986, he told the Scripps Howard News Service that he recognized an opportunity when a staff member drew Santa on the glass map in 1955. A lieutenant colonel promised to have it erased. But Shoup said, “You leave it right there,” and summoned public affairs. Shoup wanted to boost morale for the troops and public alike. “Why, it made the military look good — like we’re not all a bunch of snobs who don’t care about Santa Claus,” he said. Shoup died in 2009. His children told the StoryCorps podcast in 2014 that it was a misprinted Sears ad that prompted the phone calls. “And later in life he got letters from all over the world,” said Terri Van Keuren, a daughter. "People saying ‘Thank you, Colonel, for having, you know, this sense of humor.’” A rare addition to Santa's story NORAD's tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010. Ad campaigns or movies try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, said Bowler, who wrote “Santa Claus: A Biography.” NORAD, by contrast, takes an essential element of Santa's story and views it through a technological lens. In a recent interview with the AP, Air Force Lt. Gen. Case Cunningham explained that NORAD radars in Alaska and Canada — known as the northern warning system — are the first to detect Santa. He leaves the North Pole and typically heads for the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. From there he moves west, following the night. “That's when the satellite systems we use to track and identify targets of interest every single day start to kick in,” Cunningham said. “A probably little-known fact is that Rudolph’s nose that glows red emanates a lot of heat. And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org, that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, mountain standard time. 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