![]() ![]() Starling, a bright 15-year-old who liked to draw and was struggling to fit in during her first year at a new school, was found dumped in a Kirkland park, face down in thick grass - strangled, jaw broken and stabbed through the neck with a kitchen knife. Mullin-Coston, 21, is the fourth and final person to be convicted in a series of related cases that prosecutors and police describe as among the most bizarre they've seen. Rose, 59, watched yesterday as Thomas Mullin-Coston was sentenced in King County Superior Court to more than 39 years in prison for first-degree murder of Rose's stepdaughter, Sarah Starling, a Bellevue teenager who was killed March 9, 1999. "When something like this happens, you just can't forget it's there." ![]() "You just have to deal with it," he said wearily. The question usually finds Jerry Rose at night, just before he tries to sleep: Did I do enough to protect my child? ![]()
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