The Snohomish County Medical Examiners Office is seeking assistance in identifying the unidentified remains listed below. Miguel Bandera Richard A. Kruse The MUHR Program augments the existing services available . Robert C. Gura, Christopher Hall A .22-caliber revolver was found near his body leading investigators to believe he committed suicide. GREEN, William COX, Valerie RAMOS, Julio WELSH, Brian Morris, Randall Walter Cothran LENK, Victor (2) Any person engaged in ground disturbing activity and who encounters or discovers skeletal human remains in or on the ground shall: (a) Immediately cease any activity which may cause further disturbance; (b) Make a reasonable effort to protect the area from further disturbance; (c) Report the presence and location of the remains to the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible; and. Bryan, Kenneth Kane Andras Matolcsy LETCHWORTH, Dwight MITCHELL, Blake 17-0723 Adriana Carmen Forbes, died at age 77 on 03/30/17 of natural causes while hospitalized in Lakewood. Robert E. Betson Carole Morgan (1) The right to dissect a dead body shall be limited to cases specially provided by statute or by the direction or will of the deceased; cases where a coroner is authorized to hold an inquest upon the body, and then only as he or she may authorize dissection; and cases where the spouse, state registered domestic partner, or next of kin charged by law with the duty of burial shall authorize dissection for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of death, and then only to the extent so authorized: PROVIDED, That the coroner, in his or her discretion, may make or cause to be made by a competent pathologist, toxicologist, or physician, an autopsy or postmortem in any case in which the coroner has jurisdiction of a body: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the coroner may with the approval of the University of Washington and with the consent of a parent or guardian deliver any body of a deceased person under the age of three years over which he or she has jurisdiction to the University of Washington medical school for the purpose of having an autopsy made to determine the cause of death. KEMPLE, Craig GOH, Kiang April Russell LAICHE, Marie No family was found for him. CAMERON, Robert Ariel Perez Lumir Heckel No family was found for her. (3) Payments from the account shall be made pursuant to biennial appropriation: PROVIDED, That no county may reduce funds appropriated for this purpose below 1983 budgeted levels. Nathan See If you have any information about this case, please call the Snohomish County Medical Examiners Office at (425) 438-6200. more info Missing Persons Donald Anderson DEMARIA, Joseph The remains were found scattered, possibly as a result of animal activity. On February 28, 1991 a fisherman on the Skykomish River near Startup found human remains on the river bank. The King County Medical Examiner's Office is seeking the public's assistance in identifying cold cases of unidentified remains. KOPANIASZ, Kenneth Sheldon L. Schuster Detectives contacted a family member who provided their own DNA, confirming the remains as belonging to Jerilyn L. Smith, 68, of Sequim, who disappeared in January 2018. William H. Tullett WALLACE, Dennis Esther C. Donner (4) Where the county coroner's office or county medical examiner's office is not accredited pursuant to RCW, (1) Reports and records of autopsies or postmortems shall be confidential, except that the following persons may examine and obtain copies of any such report or record: The personal representative of the decedent as defined in RCW, (2)(a) Notwithstanding the restrictions contained in this section regarding the dissemination of records and reports of autopsies or postmortems, nor the exemptions referenced under RCW. Pamela Jackson Morales-Moreno, Juan Kevin Smith HANSELL, Ruby Mccredy, Patricia EAVES, Kimberly This program serves people whose families either could not be located or could not provide for the proper disposition of remains. Any person knowing of the existence of skeletal human remains and not having good reason to believe that the coroner and local law enforcement has notice thereof and who fails to give notice to the coroner and local law enforcement, is guilty of a misdemeanor. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected. He had short black hair, a mustache, and brown eyes. Nadga M. Tillman Ian Rogers Nora Farrell HARPER, Richard NOTICE: All emails, and attachments, sent to and from Snohomish County are public records and may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56). VELAZCO, Alberto Any person violating any provision of RCW. HENDERSON JR, Archie Donald Paulding Linda Edwards SYHORATH, Kikeo COLEMAN, Nicholas Iris J. Ashleywing She was buried in Longview, Washington. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the United States. Baby Boy Campos Michael Bortz Here are the names and descriptions of the deceased: If you wish to claim remains, contact Amber Larkins at amber.larkins@piercecountywa.gov or (253) 798-2894 by Aug. 24. Lammermann, Jessie Peter Singyke The case began in May 1978 when authorities located unidentified human remains near Westside . Lynn Jackson Richard Murphy He remains unclaimed by his family. NOTICE: All emails, and attachments, sent to and from Snohomish County are public records and may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56). Chester E. Randall Gregory E. Thomas Richmond Hill is located off I-95 just south of Savannah. April Korosec He was found wearing a thick dark red watch cap with a navy blue stripe on the lower part, a pair of non-descript pants, a plaid Faded Glory button-up shirt with a collar, a red fleece zip-up jacket with a hood, a black "Brahma" brand steel toed work boot, a pair of white socks, and a navy blue Jansport backpack. The address and phone number she had provided at check-in was false and she left behind no identification. If you check with the Sheriff's Office and they tell you that the person you are missing is not in the system, ask that they take a new missing person report. Additional remains were discovered near High Bridge Road in Monroe on March 27, 1991. James Linehan Sammy Doyle, (c) The state physical anthropologist must make an initial determination of whether nonforensic skeletal human remains are Indian or non-Indian to the extent possible based on the remains within two business days of notification of a finding of nonforensic remains. BOWING, Lori PATTERSON, Victor Roberto B. Figueroa Richard G. Elsbree Regan A. Jones Last month, the sheriffs office asked the public to help it raise $7,500 through DNASolves.com, a crowdfunding website that helps law enforcement agencies pay for DNA testing. Hunt, David Melvin Rubin John A. Christopher The National Institute of Justice estimates that there are 40,000 unidentified remains in the United States and that there are as many as 100,000 active missing person's cases at any given time (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, 2011). Ronald E. Gusewelle GILLIS, Sterling The dental identification system shall maintain a file of information regarding persons reported to it as missing. Michael F. Robinson Scott E. Friedman BARBER, Edward William F. Foster Many victims are not identified for years or even decades after they were killed as in the case of Tammy Jo Alexander, who was murdered in 1979 and remained unidentified until 2015. (2) Prearrangements that are prepaid, or filed with a licensed funeral establishment or cemetery authority, under RCW. Robert Miller MARTIN, Mark HAGE, Mark Leroy A. Freimuth Jr. German Arutyunov James Hatcher Delroy Mosley 17-0067 Carol Mae Canter, died at age 62 on 01/09/17 of natural causes at home in Puyallup. (i) Up to forty percent of the cost of contracting for the services of a pathologist to perform an autopsy; (ii) Up to 30 percent of the salary of pathologists who are primarily engaged in performing autopsies and are (A) county coroners or county medical examiners, or (B) employees of a county coroner or county medical examiner; and, (iii) One hundred percent of the cost of autopsies conducted under RCW, (b) When the county bears the cost of an autopsy of a child under the age of three whose death was sudden and unexplained, the county shall be reimbursed for the expenses of the autopsy when the death scene investigation and the autopsy have been conducted under RCW. The DNA Doe Project attempted to take on the case, however due to degraded or contaminated DNA, their involvement is currently on hold until further notice. She remains unclaimed by her family. Chester Godwin Joseph White Byron Warren If you have reported someone missing over 5 years ago and they are still missing, call the Snohomish County Sheriffs Office (425) 388-3393 (then press 0) with the persons full name and date of birth to check that they are still entered as a missing person; older cases may have been inadvertently removed from the database. Decedent Name. The Snohomish County Medical Examiners Office is seeking assistance in identifying the unidentified remains listed below. Toxicological services shall be funded by disbursement from the spirits, beer, and wine restaurant; spirits, beer, and wine private club; spirits, beer, and wine nightclub; spirits, beer, and wine VIP airport lounge; and sports entertainment facility license fees as provided in RCW, State forensic investigations council: Chapter. BOYCE, Gretchen The descriptive information from missing person's reports and dental data submitted to the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit shall be recorded and maintained by the Washington state patrol missing and unidentified persons unit in the applicable dedicated missing person's databases. Jeffrey D. May Claude Childress He was estimated to be between 30 and 50 years old and was between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall. The State Police Unidentified Persons list currently has no living entrants, but descriptions of the remains of 235 people, found in 17 of New Jersey's 21 counties, can be found in the online . Coroners to submit blood samples to state toxicologist Analysis Utilization of reports: RCW 46.52.065. HILDRETH, Stephen She remains unclaimed by her family. WEIDENKELLER, James Deanna Simon Tana R. Stumpf Lydia Pyra KO, Sue Mary Ford-James Richard Degloppen Bruce Edenso He remains unclaimed by his family. If the remains are determined to be Indian, the department must notify all affected Indian tribes via certified mail to the head of the appropriate tribal government within two business days and contact the appropriate tribal cultural resources staff. He remains unclaimed by his family. Elemer Gloncz JOHNSON, Lee Michael Stinson No family was found for him. Guiller Torres-Fernandez Two long-lost letters that the U.S. Navy sent to the distraught mother of a sailor killed on Dec. 7, 1941 a man who remained unidentified for nearly 75 years were returned to a Washington . WIGGINS, Michael [10], On June 27, 2007, the partial skeletal remains of a young to middle aged man were found in the Spokane River, east of the Washington Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington. Robert Latschaw Montgomery, Marilyn Edstrom, Bradley Joe P. Davis Michael G. Shirey Gerald Sauve ViCAP Unidentified Persons The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) maintains the largest investigative repository of major violent crime cases in the U.S. He remains unclaimed by his family. Home; Updates. It is our hope that the use of the Internet will greatly expand our reach and assist in finding relatives or friends of these persons. Lisa Puhlman BLACK, James Leann B. Roberts (1) Any public agency required to provide for the disposition of human remains in any legal manner at public expense must surrender the human remains to: (a) Any physician or surgeon, to be used for the advancement of anatomical science, preference being given to medical schools in this state, for their use in the instruction of medical students; or, (b) An accredited educational institution offering funeral services and embalming programs for use in training embalming students under the supervision of an embalmer licensed under chapter, (2) If the deceased person requested to be buried, or if some person claiming to be a relative or a responsible officer of a religious organization with which the deceased at the time of death was affiliated requires the remains to be buried, the remains must be buried, subject to the requirements of RCW. BAKER, Erick Laurence H. Ebersole The office usually relies on the Washington State Patrol and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for forensic analysis, Sgt. He was estimated to be between 30 and 55 years old, was between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed between 130 and 180 pounds. Marcus L. Lutzke Eva Corak NAKLING IIL, Arvid Weston Munro Searches of missing person reports from across the United States, Canada and Interpol failed to identify her, and her fingerprints were not on file with the FBI. HARDY, Robert Wesley Gissentanner James Cronn Stewart Martin THOMAS JR., James [7], A woman who checked into a Seattle hotel under the pseudonym "Mary A. Anderson" was found dead in her room by hotel staff on October 11, 1996. Including both murder victims and those who died of other causes, about 40,000 bodies remain unidentified in the . He was also found to have had Coronary Artery Disease. Douglas Heath Othram's currently open cases in Washington state: . Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program provides funding to eligible applicants for services focused on reporting and identifying missing persons and unidentified human remains cases in the United States. Heitstuman, James Please call for more information(425) 438-6200. Blair, Kathryn NEWHALL, Richard 600,000 Individuals go missing every year 4,400 Unidentified bodies are recovered each year The Nation's Silent Mass Disaster (1) It is the duty of every person who knows of the existence and location of skeletal human remains to notify the coroner and local law enforcement in the most expeditious manner possible, unless such person has good reason to believe that such notice has already been given. Jackson Smith GRIGGS, Suzanne If you are missing someone and they havent been reported missing, call 911 and ask to file a missing persons report. Ben Klausner MCCARTHY, Thomas Donald A. Cook (d) The affected tribes have five business days to respond via telephone or writing to the department as to their interest in the remains. WA Washington State - Unidentified Persons & Cold Cases. Clarence G. Hearns Carl Taylor Marlene Dolezal GLATTFELDER, Rudolf Leonard Yule, Allery, Toni Jean However, no person under this section shall have the power to authorize an autopsy or postmortem if a person of higher priority under this section has refused such authorization: PROVIDED, That this section shall not affect autopsies performed pursuant to RCW. Ezzie Bostick The decedents are buried in individual containers in shared plots, and records are kept for each one so that they may be recovered at a later point in time if a family member requests. Milligan, Bernard On July 11, 2000, the skeletal remains of a middle aged white man were discovered in his tent in Olympic National Park in Washington. ASKEW, Dougias Unclaimed Remains . Wayne Leverton Call 911 to report someone missing. Black Male, about 5'9" tall, he was wearing a tan banana republic pants, wool socks, a "Rodda Paints" black turtleneck t-shirt and a tan plaid flannel Eddie Bauer long sleeve shirt. . Geronimo Valdivia-Perez Castaneda, Alberto R. PINKSTON, Bryan Kevin Sullivan. George Bruce MCCORMICK, Dawayne Delores M. Chapel Jose Casco Roy Henry Miller ANDRUS, Sabrina In 2014, her remains were exhumed to make a reconstruction and to undergo DNA testing. Baskett, Scott Kelly James By Mary Jordan. Susan Higgins The chief official of any such agency shall designate one or more persons to execute authorizations pursuant to the provisions of this section. The mystery of the unidentified . Grady Forest Antemortem (well-healed) nasal fracture. Palmer, Lillian CODIS (mp) (Combined DNA Index System for Missing Persons): Also known as the National Missing Person DNA Database (NMPDD), CODIS (mp) is a database specifically designed to assemble data on missing persons and unidentified human remains cases. Kathy Estrada The accuracy of the determinations is subject to judicial review. Charles, W. Holte In any subsequent civil action in which the next of kin of a decedent contends that he/she affirmatively informed the county coroner or medical examiner or designee of his/her objection to removal of corneal tissue from the decedent, it shall be presumed that the county coroner or medical examiner acted in good faith and without knowledge of the objection. Timothy Ward National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs): (855) 626-7600. Anthony Walker The files of the dental identification system shall, upon request, be made available to law enforcement agencies attempting to locate missing persons. Gillian Timms Gerald Beckner JAMIESON, Catherine Susan Layne-Ault No family was found for him. The Washington State Patrol has a Missing Indigenous Persons section within its Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit. . William D. Moen The county coroner and the lead investigator from the law enforcement agency of jurisdiction must provide the family member or representative with a list containing any conduct the family member or representative is prohibited from doing when interacting with the remains, including an explanation of why the conduct is prohibited. He is estimated to have been there from 1-5 years. Greer J. Quillin Norman A. Abrams George Brown Cheryl Y. Taylor 17-1335 Vicki Lynn Emery, died at age 59 on 07/01/17 of natural causes while homeless in Tacoma. Brian L. Richardson Adele Frantz Kevin D. Sullivan Baby Girl Stephens Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? (1) Every person who removes human remains, or any part thereof, from a grave, vault, or other place where the same has been buried or deposited awaiting final disposition, without authority of law, with intent to sell the same, or for the purpose of securing a reward for its return, or for dissection, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of a class C felony. William L. Ingraham He had brown hair. William Braxton FOWLER, Richard Sergio Chavez Patrick Rowe Edward Crable, Linda Perchyk DUNBAR, Matthew Search-and-rescue dogs tracked her scent to the middle of the bridge, and authorities believe she died by jumping into the river. James Attebery Kenneth S. Daft Charles J. Cottone Frederick B. Bridgette Richard Johnson 18. Failure to obtain such consent is a misdemeanor. 17-0170 Linda Larayne Ragsdale, died at age 57 on 01/03/17 of natural causes while hospitalized in Tacoma. Mikailah Munday Sour Nou Frank Smith Edward Small John Smith, II Gary Jackson There are two sets of unidentified human remains officially in the care of the Lewis County Coroner's Office: one was discovered on a timber property near Raubuck Road in the Winlock area. DNA. NORRIS, Ronald, NOVAK, Gregory Search unidentified remains reports; Bremerton death reports; Coroners & Medical Examiners near Bremerton . He had gray hair, and a hammer toe deformity on his great left toe. If the body or human remains are still unidentified thirty days after discovery, the county coroner or county medical examiner investigating the death must, as soon as practicable, submit information regarding the body or remains to the national missing and unidentified persons system created by the United States department of justice's national institute of justice. He had black hair, and his eye color was unable to be ascertained. Floyd G. Stern Baby Girl VILLA-CEJA Russell Keigley PIERCE COUNTY COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WERE LAID TO REST AUGUST 31, 2021. Height, weight, hair color and eye color could not be ascertained. John Martin The legislature further finds that more can be done to reduce the number of missing and unidentified Washingtonians through the utilization of national resources. Colin Cooper ALLEN, Ernest Roy Janke Vance C. Saxton No family was found for him. Raymond L. Houle Adolfo Hernandez-Contreras WASHINGTON - Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) and Will Hurd (TX-23) today joined Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) to introduce the Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2018, a bill to help local jurisdictions improve the recording and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains found in South Texas.