John Reed 
 
 The Oso man suspected of killing his neighbors is now in an Arizona jail after being arrested in Mexico. 
 
 John B. Reed, the suspect in the murders of Monique Patenaude and Patrick Shunn of Oso, has been on the run from Snohomish County authorities since April 11, the date of the suspected murders, a sheriff’s news release says. 
 
 According to the U.S. Marshal’s Office, deputy marshals have been working investigative leads with Mexican authorities from Policia ESTATAL Investigadora in Sonora, Mexico, to determine the location of Reed. 
 
 He was discovered July 22 and expelled to the United States by Mexican authorities for violation of immigration laws. 
 
 He was taken into custody at the border by U.S. officials and booked into the Pima County Jail in Arizona. 
 
 It is unknown at this time when Reed might be extradited to Washington state. 
 
 Jana Hecla, who owns the Oso General Store, said Friday that it was fitting Reed was caught today, the same day Shunn and Patenaude were laid to rest in Oregon. 
 
 “It was a blessing for their family and friends to get some closure,” she said. 
 
 Hecla said anyone who knew Reed had to be surprised. “We didn’t think he’d be taken alive,” she said. 
 
 Hecla said she was impressed with the persistence of law enforcement. It took on the community’s mantra that, “You will pay for this.” 
 
 “It’s a resounding relief that he is detained, and he is going to be held accountable,” she said. 
 
 Hecla said she normally doesn’t have the characteristic of being a vigilante, but you never know “until it happens close to home.” 
 
 “You shouldn’t live in fear of your neighbors,” she said. “Our hearts are still broken.” 
 
 Tony Reed, John’s brother, was on the run, too, until he surrendered to U.S. authorities May 16, while in Mexico. 
 
 After surrendering, his charges were reduced from first-degree murder. He has subsequently pled guilty to two counts of rendering criminal assistance for his part in helping John dispose of Patenaude's and Shunn’s bodies. 
 
 Reed's parents, 81-year-old Clyde and 77-year-old Faye, were taken arrested on the same charge. Both reportedly admitted they provided a vehicle to John and Tony to flee the area. They also admitted to transferring the title from John's truck, believed to have been used in the murders, to Faye. They also admitted to having provided financial assistance to their sons. 
 
 The Marshals Service was offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to Reed’s capture and arrest. Two charges of first-degree homicide have been filed against Reed for the execution-style murders of 45-year-old Shunn and his wife, 46-year-old Patenaude. 
 
 Tony helped detectives locate the gravesite of Shunn and Patanaude, who were both shot to death. 
 
 Timeline of investigation 
 
 April 12 - Patrick Shunn and Monique Patenaude are reported missing to the sheriff's office by neighbors. Shunn was last seen at his workplace in Kirkland April 11. Patenaude was last seen around 1 p.m., also on April 11 near the couple's residence at the 27800 block of Whitman Road. 
 
 April 14 - Two vehicles belonging to Shunn and Patenaude are located in a remote, wooded area in the Oso area. 
 
 April 15 – Detectives conduct a search of the vehicles and the area where they were located. 
 
 April 17 – Sheriff Ty Trenary announces that probable cause had been established for the arrest of the Reed brothers, who were suspected of murdering Shunn and Patenaude. 
 
 April 18 – One of the vehicles driven by the Reed brothers is located in Phoenix, Ariz. The Reed brothers are believed to have crossed the border into Mexico driving a 2002 Gold Acura 3.2 TL (Arizona plate BNN-9968). 
 
 April 20 – Several properties in Ellensburg are searched by detectives, including the residence belonging to the parents of the Reed brothers, two storage units and the residence of Tony Reed. 
 
 May 16 – Tony Reed is taken into custody at the U.S./Mexico border and booked into the San Diego County Jail. 
 
 May 20-21 – Tony Reed is transported and booked into the Snohomish County Jail in Everett. 
 
 May 24 – Two bodies are found in an area a few miles to the west of where Shunn and Patenaude's vehicles were located. 
 
 May 26 – The Snohomish County Medical Examiner identifies the bodies. The cause of death for Patenaude was multiple gunshot wounds and for Shunn was a gunshot wound of the head. 
 
 May 27 – Sheriff's office distributes "Wanted" posters in the Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarita areas of Mexico for the capture and arrest of John Reed. 
 
 June 14 – Reed's parents are arrested and charges reduced for Tony Reed. 
 
 July 22 – John Reed is captured in Mexico and turned over to U.S. authorities. He is now in the Pima County Jail. ||||| Newly released court records outline long-running hostilities between neighbors that may have led to the disappearances of an Arlington couple now presumed slain, and two brothers who are being sought as suspects. 
 
 A former neighbor now wanted in the presumed slayings of a missing Arlington couple previously threatened to shoot the husband and wife for cutting brush between their two properties, newly released court records show. 
 
 John Blaine Reed, 53, who shared a common driveway with Patrick Shunn and his wife, Monique Patenaude, “reportedly stated he would shoot or assault them if they didn’t leave” him alone, investigators wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant. 
 
 Reed’s alleged threat, which Shunn later reported in 2013 to Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies, was just part of an “ongoing and constant” dispute between the couple and Reed, whom investigators describe in records as a disgruntled landowner angered by the response to the deadly landslide near Oso that left 43 people dead in 2014. 
 
 The couple had filed a lawsuit two years ago over alleged threats and harassment by other neighbors, but that suit didn’t name Reed as a defendant. Shunn and Patenaude avoided naming Reed because they didn’t want to irk him, the couple’s former lawyer said Monday. 
 
 But in recent weeks, Reed apparently became angry with the couple after Patenaude complained to a county official that Reed had been illegally squatting on his former property, which he recently had sold to the county, the records say. 
 
 The new details about the case, contained in 73 pages of detectives’ search-warrant records released Monday, shed new light on why investigators are now searching for Reed and his younger brother, Tony C. Reed, 49, in connection with the couple’s presumed homicides. 
 
 Both men remained at large Monday, while investigators continued searching the remote woods near Oso for the couple’s bodies near the area where their vehicles were found last week. 
 
 The couple’s disappearance came about two weeks after Reed sold his condemned property to Snohomish County as part of a buyout for landowners affected by the deadly slide. 
 
 Some time after the county took over the property on March 31, Patenaude complained to a county parks official that Reed still was “squatting” in his former home, the records say. 
 
 Based on her complaint, Snohomish County “trespassed” Reed from the former property — an action that made him “very unhappy,” a county official recently recalled to detectives investigating the case. 
 
 The records released Monday also detail a string of physical evidence and witness statements that may tie the brothers to the couple’s disappearance. 
 
 Michael and Suzanne Loo, friends and neighbors of the couple, reported them missing a week ago after finding the couple’s dog running loose and their livestock untended, but no sign of Shunn and Patenaude or their vehicles at their home. 
 
 After reporting them missing April 12, Suzanne Loo later saw the Reed brothers that day trying to access John Reed’s former property, the records say. Reed allegedly told Loo they were there to move personal items; the brothers were traveling in Reed’s “red, lifted pickup truck,” Loo later told investigators. 
 
 Related video: John Reed describes Oso landslide John Reed was in the front yard of his house on the north side of the Stillaguamish River on March 22, 2014 during the Oso landslide. John Reed was in the front yard of his house on the north side of the Stillaguamish River on March 22, 2014 during the Oso landslide. Read more . (Marcus Yam / The Seattle Times) 
 
 On Thursday, a search-and-rescue helicopter team spotted the couple’s extensively damaged vehicles next to a clear-cut area north of the couple’s 20-acre farm along the Stillaguamish River. The vehicles, a Land Rover and Jeep Wrangler, had been pushed or driven over an embankment and partly concealed by cut branches. The Land Rover apparently became stuck on the edge of the embankment, a mound, and appeared to have been “pried” over it with a digging tool or lever, records say. 
 
 At the top of the embankment, investigators also found a new tarp spread out over a mound covered with cut branches and debris, the affidavit states. 
 
 Near the vehicles, investigators later recovered an Ace Hardware bag, an ax, rubber gloves, tarps, posts and other items, records say. Detectives traced the items to a hardware store in Arlington, whose owner recalled John Reed as a frequent customer who he’d seen at the store April 13. 
 
 Armed with a warrant, detectives searched Reed’s property Saturday, finding “red stains, which appeared to be dried blood,” in and around the bathtub and a pair of coveralls with apparent blood stains. They also found two rifles and ammunition, and gloves, a tarp and posts similar to those recovered near the couple’s vehicles, the records say. 
 
 Investigators also obtained video from a property owner’s security camera along a road heading toward where the vehicles were found. It captured a Jeep and a Land Rover being driven up the road at 3:31 a.m. on April 12 — hours after Shunn and Patenaude were last seen, records say. 
 
 About six hours later, the camera also recorded a red Toyota pickup with a winch on the front headed up the road with what may have been a post in the back, the records say. 
 
 Based on the evidence, Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary announced Sunday investigators believe the couple are dead and named the Reed brothers as suspects in their slayings. 
 
 The brothers are both felons who are considered armed and dangerous, the sheriff said. 
 
 John Reed’s red Toyota pickup was recovered Saturday in the garage of his parents’ Ellensburg home, the records show. The truck’s ownership registration had been transferred to the name of Reed’s mother one day earlier, the records say. 
 
 The brothers now may be driving their parents’ red 2007 Volkswagen EOS coupe with Washington plates AXH5106. 
 
 Two months after the deadly landslide in 2014, John Reed shared his experiences of witnessing and surviving the catastrophe with The Seattle Times. 
 
 He said then he knew the rugged terrain around Oso extensively. He also noted he was drawn to his lot by the privacy he enjoyed at the end of the road, and noted he had no plans to move off his land, where he had lived for 18 years. 
 
 But the disaster apparently took an emotional toll. 
 
 After the mudslide, deputies took a report that Reed had threatened FEMA workers at the Oso Fire Hall “in regard to his displeasure about the landslide and associated response.” 
 
 The deputies were told “Reed made a loud comment about driving his truck through the building and taking everyone out with him,” the warrant records say. 
 
 Reed later explained he was very upset that his slide-damaged driveway hadn’t been fixed, saying he feared if he didn’t get money to fix it, his property would be condemned. 
 
 A day after Shunn and Patenaude were reported missing, former deputy Bruce Cheek, who lives on the same road as the missing couple, contacted a detective to describe an incident involving John Reed shortly after the 2014 slide. 
 
 “Cheek stated Reed was expressing extreme anger about the slide and named a list of people whom Reed blamed (Cheek did not remember the names),” the records state. “Cheek stated Reed expressed in a serious tone that he was capable of killing people without any problems, he could shoot them and then `they’ would never be able to locate the bodies as he (Reed) would get rid of them in the area of timber above the slide area.” ||||| John Reed is accused of killing an Arlington couple in April. Police believe he fled to Mexico shortly thereafter. 
 
 John B. Reed, suspected of killing an Arlington couple in April, has been captured in Mexico. 
 
 Reed, 53, was captured by Mexican authorities on Friday, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 Authorities from the Policia Estatal Investigadora located Reed in Sonora, Mexico, and expelled him from the country for violation of Mexican immigration laws, the sheriff’s office said. He was taken into custody at the border by the U.S. Marshals Service and booked into Pima County Jail in Arizona. 
 
 It was not immediately known when Reed would be extradited to Washington. 
 
 Police say Reed fled to Mexico after killing his former neighbors Patrick Shunn, 45, and his wife, Monique Patenaude, 46, in April. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Reed reportedly had a property dispute with the couple and had threatened them, investigators say. 
 
 Reed’s brother, Tony Reed, and their parents have been charged with helping John Reed. 
 
 Tony Reed pleaded guilty in June to two counts of rendering criminal assistance. Parents Clyde Reed, 81, and Faye Reed, 77, have each been charged with one count of rendering criminal assistance. 
 
 According to prosecutors, John Reed shot Patenaude three times after she returned home from running errands in Arlington during the late-morning hours of April 11. Shunn was fatally shot once in the midafternoon of the same day when he returned home from work, charging documents say. 
 
 Reed drove that evening to Ellensburg, where his parents and brother live. He stayed there for an hour and returned with Tony Reed, arriving back at the slain couple’s property around midnight, according to the charges. 
 
 Tony Reed, 49, later told detectives he saw Patenaude’s body in her Jeep while Shunn’s body was inside his Land Rover, according to the documents. 
 
 The brothers waited until 3 a.m. April 12 to each drive a vehicle up North Brooks Creek Road, where they buried the bodies and then dumped the Jeep and Land Rover over a steep embankment several miles from the burial site, the papers say. 
 
 The brothers walked back to John Reed’s old property and, over the next two days, allegedly tried to conceal and destroy evidence of the killings. 
 
 John and Tony Reed arrived back in Ellensburg no later than April 14, when John Reed attempted to cash a $96,595 cashier’s check — money paid to him for his property after the Oso landslide. 
 
 But the bank wouldn’t cash such a large check, so Reed had the payment split into five separate checks. Reed had two checks for $14,000 each made payable to his parents, and a $40,000 check made payable to him. He signed that larger check over to his father. 
 
 Reed’s father was seen on a surveillance video with his son at the bank during the transaction. 
 
 On April 15, Reed and his mother went to the state Department of Licensing office in Ellensburg, where he transferred the title of his red pickup to her. 
 
 She later “gifted” her son her vehicle, which he and his brother drove to Arizona, leaving it behind before they crossed into Mexico. 
 
 Clyde and Faye Reed deposited three checks totaling $68,000 into their bank accounts, only to learn Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives had frozen the money so it couldn’t be accessed, authorities say. 
 
 Shunn and Patenaude’s bodies were discovered in May after Tony Reed surrendered to authorities and led investigators to their graves. 
 
 Also Friday, relatives of the couple hosted a memorial for Patenaude and Shunn at Willamette National Cemetery outside Portland. Shunn was in the military, according to the event’s Facebook page, so the afternoon gathering began as a military-style funeral. After that, a pastor conducted a service, the page says. 
 
 “They were always together, cremated together, and we want to keep it that way for the memorial to finally put them to rest,” the page says. 
 
 Responding to news of Friday’s arrest, Shunn’s brother, Erik Shunn, posted on Facebook: “What a gift on the day of Pat and Monique’s memorial.”
– After more than three months on the run, the Washington man accused of killing his former neighbors has been arrested. John B. Reed was captured in Mexico on Friday and kicked out of that country for violating its immigration laws, the Seattle Times reports. US Marshals arrested him when he crossed the border in Arizona, where he is now in jail. Reed was captured on the same day a memorial was held for Patrick Shunn, 45, and his wife, 46-year-old Monique Patenaude. “It was a blessing for their family and friends to get some closure,” neighbor Jana Hecla tells the Marysville Globe. The US Marshals had been working with Mexican authorities in Sonora to locate Reed. “We didn’t think he’d be taken alive,” Hecla says. According to reports, Reed allegedly shot and killed Patenaude on the morning of April 11, and then shot and killed Shunn later in the day. Reed's brother, Tony Reed, allegedly helped dispose of the bodies and the couple's vehicles. Tony Reed, who turned himself in last month after also fleeing to Mexico, has pleaded guilty to rendering criminal assistance, according to the AP. The brothers' elderly parents also face charges connected to allegedly helping their sons flee the country. According to the AP, Shunn and Patenaude lived on a 21-acre property near the rural community of Oso, where a landslide destroyed dozens of houses and killed 43 people in 2014. They shared a driveway with Reed, who at one time threatened to shoot the couple, per an earlier Seattle Times report. In the weeks before the killings, Patenaude reportedly complained to the county that Reed was squatting on the land he had recently sold to the county.