Detectives identify another victim of the Green River Killer

Detectives have put a name on another victim of the Green
River Killer.

Three sets of remains were found at Mountainview Cemetery
in
Auburn on December 30, 1985, including those of Kimi
Pitsor.
Detectives with King County’s Green River Task Force
labeled
the unidentified remains as ‘Bones 16’ and ‘Bones 17.’

Now, DNA samples from family members confirm that the
victim
known as ‘Bones 16’ was Sandra Major. A family member
recently contacted the sheriff after watching a TV movie
about the Green River case.

Major was 20-years-old when she was reported missing in
December, 1982. She was last seen getting into a truck on
Aurora Avenue North, in Seattle.

Gary Ridgway was convicted and sentenced to life in prison
for the murders of 48 girls and women from 1982 to 1998.

Statement from family of Sandra Major:

We would like to thank the detectives from the King County
Sheriff’s Office who diligently worked this case. We are
grateful to finally know what happened to Sandra after all
these years.

We were aware of the lifestyle Sandra lived, but she was
still a part of our family. We last saw Sandra here in
New York in 1982. We received a letter from her in 1982
with a Seattle postmark, but no return address. We never
heard from her again and did not know what happened to
her.

Recently one of Sandra’s cousins saw a television show
about the Green River Killer. We learned that the remains
of some of the victims that had not been identified.
Since the last contact with Sandra had been the letter
from Seattle, we decided to make contact with
investigators to see if Sandra was one of the unidentified
victims.

We want to thank the detectives from the King County
Sheriff’s Office, the University of North Texas, Bode
Technology, and the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children for working together to bring closure
to our family.

We respectfully ask that the media allow us privacy.

Family of Sandra Major