CLALLAM COUNTY, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – An Arkansas woman has been charged following a milestone arrest by Washington’s new Indigenous cold case unit.

The state Attorney General’s Office says 55-year-old Tina Alcorn is charged with second-degree murder for the 2016 death of Neah Bay woodcarver George David.

It’s the first case ever charged by the AG’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Unit, which was established in 2023.

Alcorn was arrested in Mount Vernon weeks after David was found dead in a Port Angeles apartment. But instead of being charged with murder, she was extradited to Arkansas, where she was jailed on an unrelated warrant for felony theft.

Once the cold case unit was created, Port Angeles police continued their investigation and used DNA analysis to link Alcorn to the case.

She was arrested in Arkansas last week and made her first appearance in Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon.