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| WAF06????; Carnation, King Co. - partial skull | |
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| tatertot | Aug 10 2011, 11:35 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.kval.com/news/local/127463553.html Victim's body exhumed in effort to crack 1969 murder By KOMO Staff Published: Aug 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM PDT Last Updated: Aug 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM PDT SEATTLE -- King County sheriff's detectives have exhumed the remains of a woman found murdered more than four decades ago in the hope that new DNA samples will help lead them to the woman's killer. Sgt. John Urquhart said the victim, who was never identified, came to be known as "Tolt Hill Jane Doe." Her decomposed body was found on a dirt road one mile west of the Tolt River Bridge in east King County on June 5, 1969. She was buried at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle, and detectives obtained a court order to exhume her body on Friday. Her DNA will be entered into a national human identification database at the University of North Texas, as well as the FBI's DNA index. "We're hoping to find out who she was and, of course, who killed her," Urquhart said. Investigators are also trying to determine if the woman's killing is related to the death of another young woman in the area. Urquhart said a piece of a human skull from a different woman was found in 2006 about three blocks from where the remains were discovered in 1969. The second victim was also never identified. "It's a possibility we had two victims dumped out there," Urquhart said. Investigators believe the first victim was a white woman, 23 to 25 years old, 5 feet 1 to 5 feet 2 inches tall, about 105 to 115 pounds with dark hair. They hope advances in DNA testing and the expansion of the national databases will help identify her. Anyone with information on the deaths is asked to call the King County Sheriff's Office at 206-296-3311. |
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| tatertot | Aug 10 2011, 11:36 PM Post #2 |
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| tatertot | Aug 10 2011, 11:38 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Can...nty-1829260.php Can DNA from dead woman crack two King County cold cases? By LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 09:23 a.m., Wednesday, August 10, 2011 In an effort to solve a pair of mysterious deaths, King County investigators have exhumed the remains of an unidentified woman found slain near Carnation in 1969. Cold-case detectives with the King County Sheriff’s Office hope to crack two unsolved homicides with the help of DNA testing to be done on the remains of one of two women found dead and decomposed on rural road. On June 5, 1969, the woman’s decomposed body was found off a dirt road a mile west of the Tolt River Bridge in east King County. Investigators deemed the killing a homicide, and called the dead, unidentified woman “Tolt Hill Jane Doe.” A portion of a skull from a second victim, likely a young adult female, was found in 2006 about three city blocks from where the woman’s body was found 37 years before. According to a King County Sheriff’s Office statement, the remains had been exposed to the elements for a significant period of time. Like the earlier victim, the second woman has never ben identified and, a Sheriff’s Office spokesman said, detectives wonder if the two cases are linked. Having obtained a court order Friday, cold case detectives with the King County Sheriff’s Office earlier this week exhumed the “Tolt Hill Jane Doe’s” remains, which had been put to rest at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle. “They hope to first find out who the person was, then find her killer,” Sgt. John Urquhart said in a statement. “Tolt Hill Jane Doe” – whose remains were found on a dirt road that is now 290th Avenue Northeast – was described by investigators as a dark-haired white woman 23 to 25 years old. She was 5 foot 1 inch or 5 foot 2 inches tall, weighing about 105 to 115 pounds. She died from a few weeks to as much as six months before she was found. Detectives exhumed the remains of the Tolt Hill victim to obtain DNA, according to the statement. Her DNA can be entered into the DNA database at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, and then into the FBI’s CODIS system. The University of North Texas center, in collaboration with local law enforcement, allows families with missing loved ones the opportunity to submit reference samples for DNA testing that could be matched with samples on file or that may come into the center at a later date. Family members should contact the police agency that conducted the original investigation, which will determine if DNA collection is appropriate in a particular case. Anyone with information on this cold case is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 206-296-3311. The Sheriff's Office has around 190 cold-case homicides or missing persons that are likely homicides. Some cases date back to the early 1950s. |
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