Bones May Be Linked to String of Serial Killings
Investigators have identified bones found at a muddy site east of Seattle as those of a teenage girl who disappeared in 1983, a possible victim of the Green River serial killer.
Experts matched DNA from the bones with samples obtained in 1998 from the family of April Dawn Buttram, the King County Sheriff’s Office said.
Detectives believe that at least 49 women may have been victims of the Green River killer. The first bodies were found in or near the river.
Detectives have refused to say whether Gary Ridgway, accused in seven of the deaths, has led them to sites where bodies were buried in hopes of winning a plea deal that would spare him from execution.
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