Man pleads guilty in two Everett cold case murders<\/p>\n
Published 11:28 am Thursday, April 16, 2026<\/p>\n
EVERETT \u2014 In front of a packed courtroom, Mitchell Gaff pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the deaths of two Everett women four decades ago.<\/p>\n
In May 2024, prosecutors charged Gaff with aggravated first-degree murder after DNA from a piece of gum linked him to the 1984 death of Judith \u201cJudy\u201d Weaver<\/a>. In January, prosecutors submitted amended information, charging Gaff with first-degree murder in addition to the previous charge.<\/p>\n In March, prosecutors charged Gaff with an additional aggravated murder and first-degree murder in connection with the 1980 death of Susan Vesey<\/a> following the discovery of new DNA evidence.<\/p>\n On Thursday, Gaff pleaded guilty to the amended charges of two counts of first-degree murder, one for each victim, in Snohomish County Superior Court before Judge Edirin Okoloko.<\/p>\n His sentencing is scheduled for May 13 at the Snohomish County Superior Courthouse.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Check back for further updates.<\/p>\n Jenna Millikan: 425-339-3035; jenna.millikan@heraldnet.com<\/a>; X: @JennaMillikan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty in two Everett cold case murders Published 11:28 am Thursday, April 16, 2026 EVERETT \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-588358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}