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Seattle station asked to post killing on Facebook

By Doug Esser
Published March 14, 2013 4:00am ET
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Seattle station asked to post killing on Facebook
This photo provided by Pierce County sheriff's office, Tony Barrett and his wife Sara Barrett are shown. Tony Barrett called a TV station newsroom saying he killed his wife and asking to post that message on Facebook set off a search that resulted in his arrest after a high-speed chase and the discovery of his wife's body in a Tacoma motel. Officers were hoping to find Sara Barrett, 42, alive, perhaps injured, said Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer. When they tracked her to the motel about 6 a.m. Thursday, March 14, 2013 they found her dead of "homicidal violence." Barrett, 41, of Puyallup was arrested after a chase reaching 100 mph from Tacoma to Gig Harbor where police and state troopers stopped his car with spike strips. (AP Photo/Pierce County Sheriff's Office) | AP

SEATTLE (AP) — A man who told a TV newsroom that he had killed his wife and asked the station to post that message on Facebook was arrested Thursday after a high-speed chase, authorities said.

Sara Barrett, 42, was found dead from “homicidal violence” about 6 a.m. Thursday at a Tacoma motel, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

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