2026年4月4日 / 美国东部时间上午8:43 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名68岁男子在华盛顿州一家养老院被捕，他被控在1992年谋杀妻子。
皮尔斯县警长办公室在社交媒体上表示，1992年11月，贾尼斯·兰德尔被发现死于床上，当时她年幼的女儿凯蒂就在附近的婴儿床里。她当时已分居的丈夫詹姆斯·罗伯特·兰德尔告诉警方，妻子可能是服药过量，并提到她有服用止痛药的病史。警长办公室称，这对夫妇当时正处于离婚阶段，分居生活。
起初，警方将这起死亡事件作为可能的服药过量案件调查。后来的尸检结果显示，她死亡时体内没有药物残留，此案随即转为凶杀案调查，但警长办公室表示，当时“只能拼凑出零星线索，没有足够证据确立逮捕的合理依据”。
这起案件一直悬而未决，直到家属提供新线索，其中包括兰德尔“亲口承认的供词”。哥伦比亚广播公司旗下电视台KIRO报道称，兰德尔曾在与兄弟姐妹和其中一名子女的谈话中承认杀害了妻子。
贾尼斯·兰德尔。埃弗雷特县警长办公室
据KIRO报道，一名副检察官在法庭上表示：“他确实跟哥哥聊过自己是如何伪造犯罪现场的。后来他还向其中一名女儿供认了这起谋杀案。他告诉女儿，自己曾用枕头捂住妻子贾尼斯的头部，关于这起谋杀案，他说‘你要知道，凶手就是我’。”
警长办公室表示，这些线索和新信息“促使调查人员以全新视角展开全面调查”。警方目前认定，贾尼斯·兰德尔“死于与兰德尔的暴力搏斗”，新调查收集到的证据“与1992年给出的最初说法相矛盾”。警方最终确立了逮捕兰德尔的合理依据，当时他正住在华盛顿州埃弗雷特的一家养老机构中。
随身摄像机视频显示，警方在该养老设施内逮捕了现年68岁的兰德尔。在被戴上手铐并带上等候的警车前，可以听到他问道：“这是怎么回事？”
詹姆斯·罗伯特·兰德尔被带走拘留。埃弗雷特县警长办公室
据KIRO报道，兰德尔已于周四接受传讯，并对一级谋杀指控表示不认罪。KIRO称，他目前被关押，保释金为100万美元。警长办公室表示，这起案件“有力证明了，即使时隔数十年，科技和侦查手段的进步也能带来正义”。
贾尼斯·兰德尔的女儿、兰德尔的继女凯蒂·韦金告诉KIRO：“我们家没人怀疑过兰德尔是杀害母亲的凶手。”
“只是当时我们没有办法证明这一点。”韦金说道。
韦金表示，她和兄弟姐妹——包括当年被发现躺在贾尼斯·兰德尔尸体旁婴儿床里的妹妹——至今仍在从母亲遇害的打击和针对父亲的新一轮调查中恢复。韦金告诉KIRO，她计划出席所有庭审。
“我们的母亲被夺走了生命；她对母亲没有任何记忆。我母亲非常非常爱她。”韦金说道。“她（凯蒂）爱（父亲），但她知道他必须为此承担责任，她愿意抛开一切，确保正义得到伸张，让母亲的故事得以被讲述。”
Man arrested at retirement home for wife’s murder decades earlier
April 4, 2026 / 8:43 AM EDT / CBS News
A 68-year-old man was arrested at a Washington nursing home after being charged with first-degree murder in the 1992 death of his wife.
Janice Randle was found dead in her bed in November 1992, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said on social media, with her toddler daughter Katie in a crib nearby. Her estranged husband, James Robert Randle, told police that she had likely overdosed and said she had a history of using painkillers. The couple was going through a divorce and living separately, the sheriff’s office said.
Initially, police investigated the death as a possible overdose. When later autopsy results showed no drugs in her system at the time of death, the case became a homicide investigation, but “only breadcrumbs of information could be pieced together, with nothing substantial to establish probable cause for an arrest,” the sheriff’s office said.
The case remained unsolved until family members came forward with new information, including “witnessed confessions” from Randle, the sheriff’s office said. CBS affiliate KIRO reported that Randle had confessed to killing his wife in conversations with his siblings and one of his children.
Janice Randle. Everett County Sheriff’s Office
“He actually talked to his brother about how he staged the crime scene,” a deputy prosecutor said in court, according to KIRO. “He also confessed to this murder to one of his daughters later on as well. He told her that he had had to put a pillow over his wife Janice’s head and said, with regards to the murder, quote, ‘Just know it was me.’”
The sheriff’s office said the tips and new information “led to a thorough investigation with a new perspective.” The sheriff’s office said it is now believed that Janice Randle “died as a result of a violent struggle” with Randle, and that evidence gathered in the new investigation “contradicted the original account given in 1992.” Police were able to establish probable cause on which to arrest Randle, who was living in a retirement facility in Everett, Washington.
Body camera video shows police arresting Randle, now 68, at the facility. He can be heard asking, “What’s this about?” before being handcuffed and led to a waiting vehicle.
James Robert Randle being taken into custody. Everett County Sheriff’s Office
Randle was arraigned on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder, KIRO reported. He is being held on a $1 million bail, KIRO said. The sheriff’s office said the case “stands as a powerful example of how advancements in technology and investigative practices can bring justice, even decades later.”
Katie Wakin, Janice Randle’s daughter and Randle’s stepdaughter, told KIRO that “no one in our family ever doubted” that Randle was responsible for her mother’s death.
“We just had no way to prove it back then,” Wakin said.
Wakin said she and her siblings, including the sister who was found in the crib near Janice Randle’s body, are still healing from their mother’s death and the new investigation into their father. Wakin told KIRO she plans to attend all court hearings.
“Our mom was taken from her; she has no memories of her. My mom loved her very much. Very, very much,” Wakin said. “She loves (her father), but she knows that he needs to be accountable, and she’s willing to put aside all of that to make sure justice is met and that our mom’s story is told.”