Family of Wendy Stephens finds closure 38 years later, thanks to improvements in forensic genealogy
After nearly four decades, a Denver family finally has some answers about what happened to Wendy Stephens.
and last updated 2021-02-10 01:31:08-05
DENVER â After nearly four decades, a Denver family finally has some answers about what happened to Wendy Stephens.
Stephens was just 14 years old when she disappeared in 1983 in Denver; the teenâs parents had filed a missing personâs report, but police were unable to track the teen down.
The teenâs body was found a year after her disappearance in Washington and was linked to the Green River killer, but investigators were unable to identify it.
Wendy Stephens, finally identified as the youngest victim of the Green River Killer, in an undated photo.
For more than three and a half decades, she was known as “Bones 10” – the skeletal remains of a young female recovered in 1984 from a swamp behind a baseball field near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Nineteen years later, she received an additional moniker in charging documents – “Jane Doe B10” – after the man unmasked as the Green River Killer admitted he’d killed her and dumped her body before eventually pleading guilty to the murders of 49 women and girls. But other than knowing she was one of Gary Ridgway’s victims, investigators never knew her true identity.
Family, friends search for answers after man fatally shot near Woodland Park By Elise Takahama, The Seattle Times
Published: January 14, 2021, 10:30am
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Christopher Dailey had a reputation for being everyone’s best friend.
That’s how many of his friends and family remember him, said Summer McGeorge, who met 38-year-old Dailey through a mutual friend about 10 years ago.
“That’s how he was,” she said a few days after her friend’s vigil. “He just had the biggest heart. … He could have the worst luck on the worst day, but he was always smiling. He was really content with everything he had.”
Detectives seek help with woman s whereabouts before body found near Maple Valley
Detectives asking for help on whereabouts of woman prior to death
Officials say the 29 yo woman left her Lakewood home on Friday, and her body was found Monday in Maple County. Detectives are asking for the public s help in any additional info about her whereabouts prior to her death.
SEATTLE - King County Sheriff’s Major Crimes detectives are asking for the public’s help to determine where a woman went the weekend before her body was found along the shoulder of Highway 18 near Maple Valley on Monday, December 14th.