When did suspect come here?

SEAN ROBINSON; The News Tribune
Last updated: July 15th, 2007 01:25 AM (PDT)

Terapon Adhahn, prime suspect in the abduction and slaying of 12-year-old Zina Linnik, settled in Pierce County no earlier than December 1989, according to available public records.
The date is a crucial one – investigators from Tacoma police and the FBI are checking the grim possibility that Adhahn, 42, is tied to other cases of missing and slain children.

Zina Linnik went missing July 4 from behind her family’s home on Tacoma’s Hilltop. Her body was found Thursday in East Pierce County.

A 1989 arrival date, if accurate, could eliminate Adhahn as a person of interest in prominent unsolved cases from the 1980s, including the 1986 slayings of Michella Welch and Jenny Bastian.

Court records from Adhahn’s 1990 conviction for incest include a jail intake form filled out on March 26, 1990. On the form, Adhahn was asked to provide information such as his birthdate, marital status and prior addresses.

On the form, Adhahn listed his prior address as “Germany,â€