GPS data, blood evidence, stickers key to case in disappearance of Kent man

CLE ELUM, Wash. — A GPS watch, fragments of window stickers and a trail of blood evidence helped investigators build the murder case against the man charged with killing a Kent man who vanished during a hunting trip more than six years ago, according to newly filed court documents.

Jorge Oma Alcantara-Gonzalez, 40, was charged this week in Kittitas County Superior Court with murder and first-degree robbery in connection with the disappearance and presumed death of Ian P. Eckles, 46, who was last seen May 16, 2020, in the remote Liberty area east of Cle Elum.

Eckles’ body has never been found…

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