FEBRUARY 2020
A woman reports a sexual assault by Sayre. Her sexual assault kit is sent to a forensics lab, where analysts find two sets of male DNA on her underwear.
SEPTEMBER 2021
Everett police launch a broader investigation into Sayre, eventually identifying multiple potential cases of sexual assault.
OCT. 21
Police obtain a search warrant to swab Sayre’s cheek. Lab results show “very strong support” that his DNA matches one of the profiles from the 2020 kit.
OCT. 22
Sayre is arrested and booked on three felony charges related to three victims. Bail is set at $120,000. He posts bond and is released days later.
JAN. 14, 2022
Sayre is arrested a second time at his home and charged with 10 felony counts of sexual assault. Prosecutors say police opened 20 investigations involving Sayre. Bail is set at $1 million.
MARCH
A judge reduces Sayre’s bail to $700,000. He posts bond and is released. Authorities discover a notebook with 32 names and hard drives containing child pornography at Sayre’s home. Several women named in the notebook came forward, reporting they were assaulted by Sayre, some as early as 2001.
MARCH 22
Sayre is arrested a third time, this time on a felony warrant out of Washington County, Oregon, where a grand jury indicts him on five sex crimes, including rape, sodomy and sexual abuse.
APRIL 6
Sayre is arrested for the fourth time after a court hearing in Snohomish County. Judge Millie Judge sets bail at $1 million. Sayre now faces 22 felony charges — 16 in Snohomish County and six in Oregon. One victim is identified as a child. Prosecutors request that Sayre not be extradited to Oregon until local charges are resolved.
JULY
Sayre posts $1 million bail and is released for the fourth time in nine months.
SEPT. 26
Sayre is arrested for the fifth time on an Oregon warrant listing six felony sex charges, including rape, sodomy, sexual penetration and abuse. Everett police arrest him at his home and he is booked into Snohomish County Jail. He is released the following day without posting additional bond.
SEPTEMBER 2022 – AUGUST 2024
The case moves through motion hearings, no-contact orders, continuances and pretrial litigation. In June 2023, Sayre pleads not guilty.
AUG. 26, 2024
A judge separates Sayre’s charges into four trials.
SEPTEMBER
A judge dismisses three counts. In two of those cases, the alleged victims choose not to testify, and without their testimony, prosecutors say they cannot prove the allegations. On the third count, deputy prosecutor Kara Van Slyck drops the charge “due to evidentiary considerations that the State is unable to resolve,” according to court filings. Sayre now faces 18 counts.
OCT. 3
A jury convicts Sayre on six counts: four counts of third-degree rape of a child and two counts of possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
NOV. 6
In a second trial, Sayre is found guilty of second-degree rape and three counts of indecent liberties.
JAN. 30, 2025
In a third trial, Sayre is convicted again on four counts: one of second-degree rape and three of indecent liberties.
APRIL 29
Jury selection begins for Sayre’s final trial. He faces three counts of indecent liberties and one count of second-degree rape.
MAY 5
Opening statements begin in the final trial of Christian Sayre
Aspen Anderson: 425-339-3192; aspen.anderson@heraldnet.com; X: @aspenwanderson.
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