Washington State Mysteries

  Alan Edward Dean in about 1993 (left), and in 2020. (Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office) After treatment, charges refiled in 1993 murder of Bothell teen Alan Dean’s public defender argued the case should be dismissed again since the defendant’s competency likely can’t be restored. By  Jake Goldstein-Street Thursday, March 10, 2022 4:43pm LOCAL NEWS BOTHELL             EVERETT — After almost 1½ years in a state psychiatric hospital, murder charges were refiled this week against Alan Edward Dean, the suspect in the 1993 killing of Bothell teenager Melissa Lee. In a case that had gone cold for nearly three decades, Dean, now 64, was  arrested in connection with Lee’s death in July 2020  with the help of forensic genealogy research. A used cigarette butt linked Dean to the long unsolved killing of Lee, who was 15 when she died in April 1993. He was 35 at the time. Last week, an assistant state attorney general wrote to deputy prosecutor Cra...

  Six years after Tyler Sullivan went missing, his family knows he’s not alive. The rest is a mystery. EVERETT — At the time Tyler Sullivan went missing, his girlfriend was going on eight months pregnant. The baby came 1½ weeks early. Sullivan never came home. In November, the girl celebrated her sixth birthday, days after authorities figured out what became of her father. A land surveyor found the human skull in the woods on the Tulalip Reservation in 2016. Three years passed before clues in his family tree, uncovered by a genealogist, helped investigators to confirm the identity of the remains. Dental records showed the skull belonged to Sullivan, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Friday. How he died remains a mystery. Sullivan lived in the Tukwila area in 2013, but he grew up in north Snohomish County. His friends and family still live around Marysville. He met his girlfriend at the time, Ileana Gonzalez, now 32, by working shifts with her at Chipotle on T...

  Deputies looking for missing woman who may be in Tacoma Pierce County deputies say the woman may be in the Hosmer Street area of Tacoma. TACOMA, Wash.  -  Pierce County  detectives need help finding a missing woman, last seen in early January. The sheriff’s department says 19-year-old Bailey Bell was last in contact with her family on Jan. 11. Detectives believe she may be in the Hosmer Street area of Tacoma. Bell is described as a white woman, 5’7" and 140 lbs, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

March 4, 2022 Spokane  – Tony Bolen, a 40-year-old Spokane resident, and Casey Macgregor (Greer), a 44-year-old Spokane Valley resident were arrested in January as part of an investigation into the alleged sexual exploitation of local children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. Washington State Patrol’s Eastern Washington Missing and Exploited Children Task Force, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Spokane Police Department (SPD), and Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) received information indicating that someone used online accounts belonging to Bolen and Macgregor to distribute suspected child pornography images over the internet. Authorities have recovered some sexually explicit images of children and evidence of sexual abuse.  Law enforcement officers are seeking any information from the public regarding the identities of any children who may have been photographed and/or contacted by Bolen and/or Macgregor. Tony Bolen ...