DNA links body parts dumped at different Seattle locations
Apr 12, 2012, 10:18 AM | Updated: 10:50 am
Police say human appendages found inside trash bags
under the Ship Canal Bridge last year belong to a man
whose torso was found at a Georgetown recycling plant five
months earlier.
DNA testing confirms the body parts came from the same
person, a 53-year-old man reported missing last summer.
“We’ve been able to link the two sets of remains,” says
Seattle Police Department Homicide Unit Lieutenant Steve
Wilske. “They are from the same person.”
The bags were spotted by a group of homeless outreach
workers near Fairview Avenue E. and E. Allison Street
in the Eastlake neighborhood in December 2011.
The torso was found at the recycling plant in July 2011.
The case is still under investigation, but Lt. Wilske says
detectives believe the man’s death was “not a random act.”
