TACOMA, Wash. — Investigators say they linked Nicholas Matthew to a brutal stabbing in Point Defiance Park through DNA evidence, video footage, and witness accounts.
Matthew is on trial for the attempted murder of a woman he allegedly attacked randomly while she was walking on a trail in February 2024. The victim suffered over a dozen stab wounds to her head and body, with severe slashes to her face and ear.
We received over a hundred different leads to look into both locally, throughout the state, and in other states,” Detective Ryan Beck of the Tacoma Police Department said. “We had people calling in from other states. There were a lot of leads that came in that we also followed, and did not identify the suspect…