Washington State Mysteries

Possible answers in 11-year missing person investigation On the 11th anniversary of her disappearance from a Bloomington domestic abuse center, the Bloomington Police Department announced that two people were charged with the murder of April Pease. Pease, 30, was from Washington state and had been staying at the Cornerstone shelter for about five months when she disappeared in March 2009. Cedric Marks, a 45-year-old Belton, Texas, man and Kellee Sorensen, a 34-year-old Lynden, Washington, woman, were charged March 11 in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree murder, with intent, but without premeditation. The suspects face up to 40 years in prison if convicted. The charges follow a long investigation by multiple detectives who were initially handicapped by the fact that it was approximately six months after her disappearance when they received the report. Pease disappeared without a clue as to where she was going. Her situation was complicated by the fact that she had a hist...

Skip to content Missing Washington girl found in rural Mexico, FBI says By:  KIRO 7 News Staff Updated: March 27, 2020 - 3:13 PM SEATTLE —  Officials with the FBI office in Seattle announced Friday they recovered a girl who had been missing from Adams County for nearly two years in rural Mexico. Agents received a tip and worked with the the Legal Attaché Office in Mexico City to find the girl about eight hours outside Mexico City. >> Family confirms Robert Levinson, former FBI agent, dies in Iranian custody Content Continues Below “Too many times we see situations like these end in tragedy or with no answers. Happily in this case, we were able to bring her home, thanks to the quick actions of our agents and our partners at the Othello Police Department and the Mexican Federal Police,” said FBI Seattle Special Agent in Charge Raymond Duda. The girl was reported missing by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in June 2018 when she was 14 years old. Offici...

Snohomish County was state’s ground zero, analysis suggests A genetics and infectious disease expert studied the DNA of individual cases to trace transmission. Tuesday, March 3, 2020 7:27am LOCAL NEWS NORTHWEST CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK EVERETT   Trevor Bedford (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) By Mike Carter / The Seattle Times SEATTLE — A genetics and infectious disease expert at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center said Tuesday that additional analysis of the spread of the novel coronavirus, using genetic markers, has led to him conclude that  as many as 570 Washington residents may have contracted the virus , many of them without knowing it, and have been spreading it through the community with Snohomish County as the outbreak’s center. Trevor Bedford posted some of his initial findings on Twitter  over the weekend, concluding that the genetic relationship between the first confirmed case of the disease —  a Snohomish County man hospitalized in Ever...