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According to news accounts from the time the baby boy was discovered on Nov. 20, 1997, the King County Medical Examiner's Office determined he had been born alive two days earlier and ruled his death a homicide. He was buried in January 1998.
The woman, who was 27 years old when the baby was born, was identified through genetic genealogy, an evolving technique in which a genealogist uploads a previously unknown DNA profile to public genealogy sites like GEDmatch and then builds a family tree to identify possible suspects.
Seattle woman arrested 23 years after her infant son was found dead in trash can By Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times Published: March 12, 2021, 9:45am Share: SEATTLE – Baby Boy Doe, who was found dead in a trash can at a 24-hour Lake City convenience store more than 23 years ago, is buried in Section 18 at Seattle’s Calvary Cemetery, his grave stone adorned with a teddy bear in one corner. Seattle police on Thursday arrested the infant’s now 50-year-old mother and booked her into the King County Jail on investigation of homicide, according to jail records and an item po...
Investigation into destroyed DNA samples uncovers more problems with Seattle police evidence storage By Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times Published: December 23, 2020, 10:12am Share: SEATTLE — Plagued by a chronically full evidence warehouse that led to failed fire inspections, the Seattle Police Department wrongly destroyed more than 100 post-conviction DNA samples in 2018 as part of an effort to make space for incoming items of evidence, according to a recently released report detailing an audit by the Seattle Office of Inspector General (OIG). Around the same time the DN...