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× Friend says missing couple rushed to their accused murderer’s home after Oso landslide 
  
 ARLINGTON, Wash. – A close friend of Monique Patenaude and Patrick Shunn said that in the moments after the Oso landslide, the couple sprinted across a flooding pasture to check on John Reed – one of the two men charged Tuesday with first-degree murder following what police say were brutal deaths for both. 
  
 John Reed and his brother, Tony, are missing and both were charged with murder after police said they found “significant blood evidence” in the cargo area of Patenaude and Shunn’s vehicles. The vehicles were found down an embankment on Sunday in a remote, wooded area near Oso, Wash. 
  
 Margaret Dunn Hedlund said she became like a surrogate mother to Patenaude after Patenaude’s mother died from cancer about two years ago. 
  
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 “The kind of people they are is that on the day of the landslide, they sat there and they could see the trees and they could see the landslide happening, and when it stopped, they ran down into the field to that John Reed’s house to see if he was OK and still there,” Hedlund told Q13 News on Tuesday. “They’re running through fish jumping in their pasture because of the water rushing up onto the land and it had fish in it. They risked everything just to run down and see if he was ok.” 
  
 “To think that he would take their lives is almost uncomprehendable (sic).” 
  
 Hedlund, who met Patenaude soon after moving to town three years ago, said she had cancer when the landslide occurred, and that the Patenaude and Shunn showed up for a fundraiser for her just a few hours after the disaster. 
  
 “They show up at 5 o’clock with their two vehicles with everything but the sheep,” she said. “They’ve got two ducks. They’ve got their chicken and roosters. They got their cat. They’ve got at the time, two dogs.” 
  
 Hedlund said the couple moved to the outskirts of Arlington because they wanted to get “out in the boondocks,” describing both as hardworking and happy. 
  
 “She loved life,” Hedlund said. “She would give you the absolute last shirt on her back and didn’t deserve to go out when she was such an earthy, loving person. 
  
 “He was her Yin to her Yang.” 
  
 Police tracked the Reed brothers to Arizona and California, and said they might be heading to Mexico. 
  
 “The last information available to affiant prior to writing this document is that the 2002 Acura was spotted in California near the Mexican border on Monday, April 18,” court documents said. ||||| Newly released court records outline long-running hostilities between neighbors that may have led to the disappearances of an Arlington couple now presumed slain, and two brothers who are being sought as suspects. 
  
 A former neighbor now wanted in the presumed slayings of a missing Arlington couple previously threatened to shoot the husband and wife for cutting brush between their two properties, newly released court records show. 
  
 John Blaine Reed, 53, who shared a common driveway with Patrick Shunn and his wife, Monique Patenaude, “reportedly stated he would shoot or assault them if they didn’t leave” him alone, investigators wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant. 
  
 Reed’s alleged threat, which Shunn later reported in 2013 to Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies, was just part of an “ongoing and constant” dispute between the couple and Reed, whom investigators describe in records as a disgruntled landowner angered by the response to the deadly landslide near Oso that left 43 people dead in 2014. 
  
 The couple had filed a lawsuit two years ago over alleged threats and harassment by other neighbors, but that suit didn’t name Reed as a defendant. Shunn and Patenaude avoided naming Reed because they didn’t want to irk him, the couple’s former lawyer said Monday. 
  
 But in recent weeks, Reed apparently became angry with the couple after Patenaude complained to a county official that Reed had been illegally squatting on his former property, which he recently had sold to the county, the records say. 
  
 The new details about the case, contained in 73 pages of detectives’ search-warrant records released Monday, shed new light on why investigators are now searching for Reed and his younger brother, Tony C. Reed, 49, in connection with the couple’s presumed homicides. 
  
 Both men remained at large Monday, while investigators continued searching the remote woods near Oso for the couple’s bodies near the area where their vehicles were found last week. 
  
 The couple’s disappearance came about two weeks after Reed sold his condemned property to Snohomish County as part of a buyout for landowners affected by the deadly slide. 
  
 Some time after the county took over the property on March 31, Patenaude complained to a county parks official that Reed still was “squatting” in his former home, the records say. 
  
 Based on her complaint, Snohomish County “trespassed” Reed from the former property — an action that made him “very unhappy,” a county official recently recalled to detectives investigating the case. 
  
 The records released Monday also detail a string of physical evidence and witness statements that may tie the brothers to the couple’s disappearance. 
  
 Michael and Suzanne Loo, friends and neighbors of the couple, reported them missing a week ago after finding the couple’s dog running loose and their livestock untended, but no sign of Shunn and Patenaude or their vehicles at their home. 
  
 After reporting them missing April 12, Suzanne Loo later saw the Reed brothers that day trying to access John Reed’s former property, the records say. Reed allegedly told Loo they were there to move personal items; the brothers were traveling in Reed’s “red, lifted pickup truck,” Loo later told investigators. 
  
 Related video: John Reed describes Oso landslide John Reed was in the front yard of his house on the north side of the Stillaguamish River on March 22, 2014 during the Oso landslide. John Reed was in the front yard of his house on the north side of the Stillaguamish River on March 22, 2014 during the Oso landslide. Read more . (Marcus Yam / The Seattle Times) 
  
 On Thursday, a search-and-rescue helicopter team spotted the couple’s extensively damaged vehicles next to a clear-cut area north of the couple’s 20-acre farm along the Stillaguamish River. The vehicles, a Land Rover and Jeep Wrangler, had been pushed or driven over an embankment and partly concealed by cut branches. The Land Rover apparently became stuck on the edge of the embankment, a mound, and appeared to have been “pried” over it with a digging tool or lever, records say. 
  
 At the top of the embankment, investigators also found a new tarp spread out over a mound covered with cut branches and debris, the affidavit states. 
  
 Near the vehicles, investigators later recovered an Ace Hardware bag, an ax, rubber gloves, tarps, posts and other items, records say. Detectives traced the items to a hardware store in Arlington, whose owner recalled John Reed as a frequent customer who he’d seen at the store April 13. 
  
 Armed with a warrant, detectives searched Reed’s property Saturday, finding “red stains, which appeared to be dried blood,” in and around the bathtub and a pair of coveralls with apparent blood stains. They also found two rifles and ammunition, and gloves, a tarp and posts similar to those recovered near the couple’s vehicles, the records say. 
  
 Investigators also obtained video from a property owner’s security camera along a road heading toward where the vehicles were found. It captured a Jeep and a Land Rover being driven up the road at 3:31 a.m. on April 12 — hours after Shunn and Patenaude were last seen, records say. 
  
 About six hours later, the camera also recorded a red Toyota pickup with a winch on the front headed up the road with what may have been a post in the back, the records say. 
  
 Based on the evidence, Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary announced Sunday investigators believe the couple are dead and named the Reed brothers as suspects in their slayings. 
  
 The brothers are both felons who are considered armed and dangerous, the sheriff said. 
  
 John Reed’s red Toyota pickup was recovered Saturday in the garage of his parents’ Ellensburg home, the records show. The truck’s ownership registration had been transferred to the name of Reed’s mother one day earlier, the records say. 
  
 The brothers now may be driving their parents’ red 2007 Volkswagen EOS coupe with Washington plates AXH5106. 
  
 Two months after the deadly landslide in 2014, John Reed shared his experiences of witnessing and surviving the catastrophe with The Seattle Times. 
  
 He said then he knew the rugged terrain around Oso extensively. He also noted he was drawn to his lot by the privacy he enjoyed at the end of the road, and noted he had no plans to move off his land, where he had lived for 18 years. 
  
 But the disaster apparently took an emotional toll. 
  
 After the mudslide, deputies took a report that Reed had threatened FEMA workers at the Oso Fire Hall “in regard to his displeasure about the landslide and associated response.” 
  
 The deputies were told “Reed made a loud comment about driving his truck through the building and taking everyone out with him,” the warrant records say. 
  
 Reed later explained he was very upset that his slide-damaged driveway hadn’t been fixed, saying he feared if he didn’t get money to fix it, his property would be condemned. 
  
 A day after Shunn and Patenaude were reported missing, former deputy Bruce Cheek, who lives on the same road as the missing couple, contacted a detective to describe an incident involving John Reed shortly after the 2014 slide. 
  
 “Cheek stated Reed was expressing extreme anger about the slide and named a list of people whom Reed blamed (Cheek did not remember the names),” the records state. “Cheek stated Reed expressed in a serious tone that he was capable of killing people without any problems, he could shoot them and then 'they’ would never be able to locate the bodies as he (Reed) would get rid of them in the area of timber above the slide area.” ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
  
 EVERETT, Wash. -- Fugitive brothers John and Tony Reed were charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the case of the Arlington couple who went missing April 11, and authorities said they found "significant blood evidence" in the cargo area of the husband and wife's vehicles that led them to believe they were slain. 
  
 In court documents, Snohomish County prosecutor's office said the Land Rover and Jeep belonging to 45-year-old Patrick Shunn and his wife, 46-year-old Monique Patenaude, "had obvious blood pooling and smearing, and some blood splatter in their respective interiors. The largest concentration of blood in the vehicles appeared to be in the cargo area, consistent with a body having laid there some amount of time." 
  
 The vehicles were found down an embankment on Sunday in a remote, wooded area near Oso, Wash. 
  
 The court documents stated, "On or about April 11 ... the two defendants, brother John Blaine Reed (dob 9/1/62) and Tony Clyde Reed (dob 11/19/66) murdered husband and wife Patrick Michael Shunn and Monique Marie Patenaude. The murders most likely occurred on the Shunn/Patenaude property located at 27809 Whitman Rd., Arlington, WA. 
  
 "The precise mechanism of death for Mr. Shunn and Ms. Patenaude is unclear at this point as their bodies have not been recovered. However significant blood evidence located in the vehicles of Shunn and Patenaude, in the truck belonging to John Reed, on the property that formerly belonged to defendant John Reed ... and the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of ... (the couple) lead to the inescapable conclusion that they are dead." 
  
 The documents said "dried blood" was also located in the bathtub of John Reed's former property, and that a "fresh" 9mm shell casing was found just outside the locked gate that leads between the former home of John Reed and the Shun/Patenaude home. 
  
 On Saturday, detectives traveled to Ellensburg and the home of the Reeds' parents. Inside the garage they found the red Toyota extended cab truck belonging to John Reed. Blood was found on the passenger side floorboard, police said. The defendants' father said he did not know where his two sons were, but if he did, he would not tell law enforcement, the documents stated. The father said his sons arrived in Ellensburg on April 13 and left on April 14 in a red 2007 Volkswagen EOS coupe. 
  
 On Sunday, law enforcement received information that the Reed brothers were in Phoenix. The Volkswagen was found, along with two people who said they gave the defendants $500 cash and the keys to a 2002 gold Acura. The brothers left Phoenix sometime on Sunday night, April 17, or in the early morning hours of Monday, April 18, the documents said. 
  
 "The last information available to affiant prior to writing this document is that the 2002 Acura was spotted in California near the Mexican border on Monday, April 18," the documents said. 
  
 Authorities said they believe the Reed brothers may be heading into Mexico. |||||
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Court documents show that Washington state police have reached the "inescapable conclusion" that missing Arlington couple Patrick Shunn and Monique Patenaude were murdered. Their vehicles, found partly obscured by branches down an embankment in a remote area near Oso on Sunday, showed "obvious blood pooling and smearing, and some blood splatter," reports Q13. "The largest concentration of blood in the vehicles appeared to be in the cargo area, consistent with a body having laid there some amount of time." An ax, rubber gloves, and tarps were also found, reports the Seattle Times. The evidence is enough that brothers John Reed, 53—with whom the couple shared a driveway and had an "ongoing and constant" dispute—and Tony Reed, 49, have been charged with murder, though both remain on the run. The brothers were last spotted Monday driving a 2002 gold Acura in California near the Mexican border, according to police. Back in 2013, Shunn told police that John Reed threatened "to shoot or assault" the couple after they cut some brush between their properties, an affidavit reads. More recently, Reed became incensed when Patenaude told a county official that he was squatting on his former property, which he had sold to the county, police say. During a 2014 landslide in Oso, however, Shunn and Patenaude "risked everything just to run down and see if (John) was OK," a friend tells Q13, adding it's incomprehensible "to think that he would take their lives." Police say a shell casing was found near a gate between the two properties, while "dried blood" was found around the bathtub of John Reed's former residence.