New DNA recovered from a cigarette has helped police in Washington state make an arrest in a decades-old cold case, authorities said this week. ...
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Aug 27, 2024
Vereta Jon "Joni" Gates had wavy, shoulder-length brown hair and grew up in Vermont. Her family remembers her as "a wanderer" who hitchhiked...
Dec 30, 2023
Hallie Ann Seaman was a standout University of Washington student two terms away from earning a master’s degree in architecture.
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Oct 26, 2023
SEATTLE — Justice could finally be coming for hundreds of sexual assault survivors across Washington. The state has cleared its backlog of more...
Oct 26, 2023
OLYMPIA — The state has cleared a decades-old backlog of more than 10,000 forensic kits collected from sexual assault survivors, state officials...
Sep 8, 2023
In the 45 years since 16-year-old Krisann Baxter was found strangled near Whitworth University, her case had stumped investigators.
Aug 10, 2023
AG’s lawfully owed DNA project continues to collect DNA from serious offenders who slipped through the system
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Aug 9, 2023
SEATTLE - Convicted criminals who haven't submitted their court-ordered DNA are now being tracked down and forced to comply in ...
Mar 1, 2023
For decades, a woman who was killed along the western shore of Lake Tahoe in 1979 was a Jane Doe, her name and what happened to her lost to...
Jul 11, 2022
In March 2003, a 17-year-old girl from McCleary, Washington was kidnapped, driven to a remote location, and...