Washington State Mysteries

FBI reviewing case of Muslim teen found hanging from tree MAR 3, 2017 11:45 AM EST CRIMESIDER BY CRIMESIDER STAFF / CBS NEWS 1aben.jpg Ben Keita GoFundMe.com LAKE STEVENS, Wash. – The FBI is reviewing the death of an 18-year-old Muslim high school student whose body was found hanging from a tree near his home, reports CBS affiliate KIRO. Ben Keita disappeared from his home in Lake Stevens, north of Seattle, on Nov. 26 and his body was founded in a wooded area in January. According to a statement issued Thursday, Lake Stevens Police say that Keita had not gone to work the day before his disappearance and had not gone to school for about three weeks prior. Initially, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner concluded he committed suicide, but after his family pressed, the ME changed the cause of death to undetermined. According to the station, the ME’s report gives two reasons for the change -- a K-9 search of the same area weeks earlier failed to find his body,...

“ Body found in Lake Stevens identified as missing man, 32 - HeraldNet.com January 31 2018 LAKE STEVENS — A body that was found in Lake Stevens on Saturday has been identified as Jason White, a man who had been missing for weeks. White, 32, disappeared on Jan. 3. His mother came home around 6:30 p.m. to find the front door open and her son gone. His body later was found in the woods by a search crew comprised of family, friends and volunteers from the community. Police do not believ... Read More”

AL Body found in river was Machias woman SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF | August 31, 2004 LAKE STEVENS -- A murder victim whose body was found in the Pilchuck River nearly two weeks ago has been officially identified as Kelly Jean Jones Sarsten, 37. Family members earlier this week said they believed Sarsten, who lived alone in Machias and owned her own trucking business, had been killed. Investigators have declined to say how she died, citing an ongoing homicide investigation. The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office has not released any information about suspects or a motive for the murder.

Bodies found on Snohomish County trail BY CASEY MCNERTHNEY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF | July 19, 2011 Two people were found dead Tuesday morning on the Mountain Loop Highway, and sheriff's deputies are investigating. Campers found the bodies at Red Bridge, about 10 miles east of Granite Falls, but police are not looking any suspects, Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover told our news partner, KOMO/4. It was not clear of the relationship between the man and woman found dead. The Red Bridge, 160 feet long, spans the South Fork Stillaguamish River, and croses between Silverton and Verlot. Built in 1954, it's in place of where a railroad bridge had been. The bodies were found miles from where Mary Cooper, 56, and her daughter Susanna Stodden, 27, were killed on a trail in 2006, though police have not linked that case to the remains found Tuesday morning. Cooper and Stodden were shot to death on the Pinnacle Lake Trail in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Fores...

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Finding Marizela: The Dread Void of Uncertainty; UPDATE: Marizela is still missing, questions unanswered Share By Michelle Malkin  •  October 24, 2011 03:46 AM Update: 7:57pm Eastern…Just received word…no match between Marizela’s records and the unidentified remains in Morton…questions about bureaucratic lapses still unresolved…see more below This is a sketch released by Lewis County, Washington authorities last week. It is a reconstruction of the facial features of skeletal human remains found on a logging road in April outside of Morton, WA. The small town is located about two hours south of Seattle. The remains are believed to be of a young woman of “small stature,” “possible mixed ethnicity,” and estimated to be in her 20s or 30s. It has haunted me the past four nights as I toggle back and forth obsessively between the artist’s rendering and the vivid, flesh-and-blood photos of my missing cousin, M...

The postmortem report is confidential in the state of Washington (RCW 68.50.105).  Visit the Records Request page for information on obtaining postmortem reports. Media Release March 19, 2018 The cause of death of Debra S. Nelson, the 53-year old female who was found in the roadway at 19th Avenue NE and 78th Street NE in Tulalip, WA on February 14, 2018, and died at a local hospital on February 16, 2018 is multiple blunt force injuries. The manner of death is classified as Homicide. For further information, please contact the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. March 16, 2018 The manner of death for both the 21-year old female and the 22- year old male who were found deceased in a residence in the 3000 block of Norton Avenue in Everett on March 4, 2018 is Suicide. For further information, please contact the Everett Police Department. March 13, 2018 The Snohomish Co...

June 29, 2012 The Anacortes Police Department announced Friday that a hiker found remains of Keith Anderson, a former Anacortes High School counselor who has been missing for more than two years. According to a press release, a hiker reported finding human remains on Saturday, June 23 in a remote area northwest of Darrington. King County Sheriff's Deputies used cadaver dogs to search the area and recovered enough remains for identification. The King County Medical Examiner's Office identified the remains as Anderson. A family member was notified last week. Anderson's family called Anacortes Police Jan. 7, 2010, after he had not returned from a trip to Snohomish County the day before to meet an acquaintance. Family members say Anderson was meeting the acquaintance to buy oxycontin, a powerful prescription painkiller. They say he originally took the drug after surgery and got addicted. His abandoned truck was found in late January 2010 on a remote logging road about 20 mi...

Subscriber Sign In Home Search Site map The Rising: When the hillside fell, the people never wavered By Eric Stevick, Rikki King and Scott North, Herald Writers Friday, May 30, 2014 8:58am LOCAL NEWSARLINGTONDARRINGTONOSOOSO MUDSLIDE The month had been ridiculously wet. A real frog-choker, as they say around the Oso fire hall. By March 22, the sky already had dumped 17 inches on Circle B Ranch where Willy Harper works keeping things running. For a few days, folks about town saw water spewing from the bulkhead holding back Skaglund Hill, a place notorious for mudslides across Highway 530. Harper, 37, Oso’s volunteer fire chief, got the call around 10:45 a.m. Mud had blanketed a stretch of the rural highway. It came as no surprise on a slow, soggy Saturday in the quiet river valley. Harper has lived in Oso1 for 30 years. He’s seen plenty of little slides, so he threw a few orange traffic cones into his Suburban, drove past the empty fire hall and heade...