State v. Notaro

¶1 — In 2009, a jury found Nicholas Notaro guilty of premeditated first degree murder, while armed with a firearm, for the murder of Joseph Tarricone. According to Notaro’s admissions to a former co-worker and his 2008 confession to Pierce County Sheriff’s detectives, Notaro killed Tarricone in 1978. When Tarricone visited Renee Curtiss, Notaro’s sister, Notaro lured him into the basement of his (Notaro’s) mother’s Canyon Road, Puyallup, residence on the pretext of repairing a washing machine. Once in the basement, Notaro shot Tarricone twice in the back of the head. Curtiss, Notaro, and…