State v. Curtiss

¶1 — A jury found Renee Curtiss guilty of the premeditated first degree murder of Joseph Tarricone. In 1978, Tarricone disappeared after visiting Curtiss’s mother’s Canyon Road, Puyallup, rental home. In 2007, during a construction excavation, mutilated human remains were discovered buried in the Canyon Road property. Nicholas Notaro, Curtiss’s brother, confessed that in 1978, he lured Tarricone into his mother’s basement, shot him twice in the back of the head, and then put the body in a freezer. Curtiss and Notaro both confessed that they and their mother, who has since died, dismembered…