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It took the jury less than an hour to convict Daniel K. Larson to the murder of Anastasia King in 2001 in a Snohomish County Courtroom Tuesday.
Larson confessed to strangling Anastasia with a necktie in the garage of his landlord Indle King, Anastasia’s husband’s garage.
Anastasia was King’s 20-year-old wife who came to the U.S. from Russia with the hope of a living a better life.
“He twisted for four long minutes with her head in his lap. There is no question that he intended her death,” Prosecutor Janice Albert told the jury.
During closing arguments the prosecution played a jailhouse interview Larson made with KIRO 7 Eyewitness News in 2001.
Through the interview, his own letters and his own testimony from his first trial, prosecutors said he made the case against himself.
“I am not saying whether God said that or not, but I am going to use that in my defense because it is very clear that she was an adulteress,” Larson said.
Alla Soloviev, Anastasia’s mother told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News it was hard to sit through a second trial and when she heard Larson invoking God and the Bible about her daughter’s murder, she prayed God would speak through the Jury.
“In a spiritual sense I’m glad God didn’t forget Anastasia, he didn’t forget her,” Soloviev said.
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