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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Body was found floating in Feather River in Yuba City, California, </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>dressed as a woman, </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>in April 2018 </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>positively identified via DNA Tuesday as 33-year-old Jacob Gonzales, </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Gonzales was only suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, 26-year-old AirForce reservist Katherine Cunningham </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Cunningham was beheaded with a samurai sword </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>sometime between Feb 14 or 15, 2018 , </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>on Camano Island, Washington </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He was charged with the killing in July, after the murder weapon was found in the trunk of the victim&#8217;s stolen car, with his DNA on it</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Gonzales was initially classified as &#8216;John Doe&#8217; because there was no identification on his body </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Detectives shared with the public photos of the deceased man&#8217;s &#8216;sheepdog&#8217; and &#8216;faith&#8217; tattoos to help identify him </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Cause death was ruled as drowning, police found no signs of foul play in Gonzales&#8217; death</span></strong></h6>
<h6> <img class="alignnone wp-image-316066" style="font-size: 1em;" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jacob-Gonzales-7-300x195.png" alt="" width="737" height="479" /><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Tuesday DNA evidence helped identify </strong><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Jacob Gonzales [L-R], </strong><strong style="font-size: 1em;">as the</strong><span style="font-size: 1em;"> John Doe p</span><strong style="font-size: 1em;">olice found floating in a California river in April 2018</strong></h6>
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<div>A body with a mysterious &#8216;sheepdog&#8217; tattoo found floating in a California river a year ago has been positively identified, via DNA, as being a wanted man charged in the killing and decapitation of his girlfriend on Washington’s Camano Island.<br />
The Island County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that the body of 33-year-old Jacob Gonzales was found in the Feather River in northern California in April 2018.<br />
Police in March 2018 found the headless body of Gonzales&#8217; girlfriend, 26-year-old Air Force reservist Katherine Cunningham, on an undeveloped parcel of land near a gun-and-ammo-filled bunker on Camano Island, In Washington state</p>
<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-316026" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jacob-Gonzales-left-and-Katherine-Cunningham-right-1-300x165.png" alt="" width="658" height="362" /> Last July <strong>Jacob Gonzales [left], was charged in the Feb 2018 the murder and decapitation of Airforce reservist Katherine Cunningham [right] in Washington state</strong></h6>
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-316062" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Katherine-Cunninghams-Honda-Civic-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="608" height="456" />A samurai sword with Cunningham&#8217;s blood on it was found in the trunk of her stolen Honda Civic [photo] near Yreka, California</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-316029" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jacob-Gonzales-2-282x300.png" alt="" width="596" height="634" /><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Authorities in California had previously released photos of the dead man&#8217;s tattoos, including this sheepdog, to try and identify him </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Authorities said Gonzales lived with Cunningham in a trailer. He was charged with murder in July after investigators said they found the suspected murder weapon, a blood-stained samurai sword, with his DNA evidence on the hilt.<br />
Court documents say Cunningham likely died on February 14 or 15. Her body was found more than two weeks later by a couple looking to buy the property.<br />
The woman&#8217;s remains were stuffed inside a sleeping bag wrapped in a tarp in a red wagon.<br />
Not far from the crime scene, police discovered an underground bunker stocked with rifles and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.</p>
<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-316069" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Katherine-Cunningham-3-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="724" height="543" />Katherine Cunningham [photo], had been living in a trailer on Camano Island, Washington, with Gonzales until Feb 2018 when he beheaded her with a samurai sword and fled their home</h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The case had investigators in California and Washington comparing notes about the decapitation of the 26-year-old woman on a Puget Sound island in February 2018, the subsequent discovery of a samurai sword with her blood on it in the trunk of her stolen car near Yreka and the eventual identification of suspect Jacob Gonzales, whose body was recovered a year ago in Northern California&#8217;s Feather River.<br />
Documents say Gonzales stole Cunningham’s Honda Civic and fled. The car found abandoned in Yreka, California on February 19.<br />
nearly two months later on April 7, the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a body that had been found by a fisherman in the river in Yuba City, California, nearly 800 miles south of Camano Island.<br />
With no identification, the body, which was initially mistaken for that of a woman because it was dressed in female clothing, was classified as a &#8216;John Doe.&#8217;<br />
Gonzales and his girlfriend had been living in a trailer on Camano Island, Washington, until February 2018 when Cunningham was beheaded with a samurai sword.<br />
It was later determined that the John Doe died from drowning, there was no evidence suggesting foul play.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-316037" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jacob-Gonzales-bunker-1-300x154.png" alt="" width="656" height="337" /></strong><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Cops investigating the murder of Katherine Cunningham found this bunker stocked with guns and ammunition [photo], on the vacant property where the couple had once lived </strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-316036" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Feather-River-in-Yuba-City-California-1-300x154.png" alt="" width="662" height="340" /> A fisherman found Gonzales&#8217; body dressed in women&#8217;s clothing floating in the Feather River [photo] in Yuba City, California, o</strong><strong>n April 7, 2018</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Sutter County appealed to public for help with identification by posting photographs of &#8216;John Doe’s&#8217; tattoos, including a dog or wolf with a banner that read &#8216;sheepdog&#8217; and another spelling out the word &#8216;faith&#8217; in elaborate script.<br />
In November 2018, tips concerning the deceased man&#8217;s body art led detectives to believe that &#8216;John Doe&#8217; was Gonzales.<br />
The anonymous caller said the sheepdog was a popular image among servicemen symbolizing protection, and the letters &#8216;AF&#8217; etched inside the animal&#8217;s ear likely stood for &#8216;Air Force.<br />
Gonzales and Cunningham had been living in a trailer on Camano Island, Washington, until February 2018 when the woman was beheaded with a samurai sword.<br />
Police found Gonzales&#8217; DNA on the hilt of the sword and issued a warrant for his arrest in connection to his girlfriend&#8217;s killing. They said he died from drowning</p>
<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-316039" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Map-of-Sacramento-to-Seattle-271x300.jpg" alt="" width="654" height="724" />Gonzales&#8217; body was found nearly 800 miles south of Camano Island, Washington, as this map shows </strong></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-316028" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jacob-Gonzales-left-and-Katherine-Cunningham-right-3-300x193.png" alt="" width="978" height="629" />Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Gonzales in connection to his girlfriend&#8217;s killing after he proved a match for DNA on the hilt of the sword. They said he died from drowning a couple of months later</h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Cunningham&#8217;s family members had posted a photo of Gonzales&#8217; sheepdog on the inside of his left forearm on a Facebook page titled &#8216;Justice 4 Katherine.&#8217;<br />
Samples from his body were sent to a DNA laboratory in California for positive identification, which was finally made on Tuesday.<br />
&#8216;My hope was to interrogate him and provide answers to Katherine’s family,&#8217; Island County Sheriff’s Office Detective Ed Wallace told the <a class="class" href="https://www.redding.com/story/news/2019/04/16/body-found-river-idd-prime-suspect-beheading-woman/3489818002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Redding Record Searchligh</a>t of Gonzales. &#8216;He cheated the family of answers.&#8217;</p>
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Year-long search for Washington man Jacob Gonzales wanted for decapitating girlfriend near a survivalist bunker ends as corpse floating in California river is identified as the 33-year-old fugitive
