Wendy Stephens was 14 and had run away from her home in Denver before Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, strangled her in 1983, the King County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
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The youngest known victim of the infamous Green River Killer, who terrorized the Seattle-area during the 1980s, has been identified using genetic genealogy almost 37 years after her remains were found by a baseball field in a suburb outside the city, the King County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
Wendy Stephens was 14 when she ran away from her home in Denver in 1983. A year later the remains of an unidentified girl were found in a wooded area next to a baseball field in what is now the suburb of SeaTac on March 21, 1984, after the groundskeeper s dog came home with a leg bone. Investigators believed she had been strangled to death a year or more earlier.
Green River Killer’s youngest known victim identified through genetic genealogy
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
Gary Ridgway sits in court during the sentencing portion of his 2003 trial in Seattle. Ridgway recieved a life sentence, without the possibility of parole. (Photo by Elaine Thompson-Pool/Getty Images)Getty Images
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SEATTLE Genetic genealogy helped identify the youngest known victim of one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers almost 37 years after her remains were discovered near a baseball field south of Seattle.
Wendy Stephens was 14 and had run away from her home in Denver before Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, strangled her in 1983, the King County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
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