Blood, gloves, guns all potential evidence linking brothers to Arlington couple police say were killed

ARLINGTON, Wash. -- The search warrant requesting access to several properties in the search for a missing Arlington couple whom the sheriff's office said were killed reveals Monique Pautenaude and her husband, Patrick Shunn, were afraid of John Reed, their former neighbor.

Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said brothers John and Tony Reed are wanted for the couple's murder, although authorities have not found the couple's bodies yet.

The search warrants state the couple told friends John Reed made threats to “shoot” them and acted “crazy” toward them over a long-standing property dispute.

John Reed used to own the property next to the couple but after the Oso landslide, Snohomish County bought Reed’s property. Neighbors say he was angry over the damage and loss of his land.

The Seattle Times interviewed Reed as a witness to the March 22, 2014, slide.

“When I saw that big black wall coming over the neighborhood the houses were like this small this thing,” Reed said.

Several weeks ago Monique complained to the county that Reed was squatting on his former property. Then just about a week ago the couple went missing.

A search of Reed’s former property turned up potential evidence, including a number of guns. Detectives also found dried blood in the bathtub and on several pieces of clothing inside Reed’s former home.

“Their (the couple's) entire lives focus around their farm and their animals so it’s pretty hard to imagine that they would leave any of them without someone knowing,” friend Cameron Wallace said.

Crews are continuing to search for the missing couple. Their focus right now is in a remote area of Oso just north of the couple’s Arlington farm. Detectives found the victims’ Jeep and Land Rover down an embankment. Police say it’s evident that someone either drove or pushed the vehicles off the edge and down an  embankment to try to hide the vehicles from view.

They also found blood inside a vehicle, along with a number of items including a bag, rubber gloves, tarp and towels. Detectives say the brothers purchased many of the items at an Arlington hardware store on April 13, two days after the couple went missing.

Detectives also have surveillance video connecting John and Tony Reed to the victims’ cars.

Detectives say they believe the brothers kidnapped and murdered the couple before coming back to their former property shortly after the crime. A neighbor told detectives she saw the brothers last Tuesday. The brothers told her they were retrieving some personal items from the home.

That’s the last trace of the brothers in Western Washington until they were spotted again in Ellensburg, where their parents live. The brothers were reportedly driving a 2007 Volkswagen Eos coupe with Washington license plate AXH5106.

The sheriff said they are believed to be armed and dangerous.