Kitsap County Sheriff's detectives solved a 26-year-old Kitsap County cold case thanks to state-of-the-art forensic genome sequencing, officials announced Wednesday. FOX13
In Aug. 1995, deputies were called to reports of a murder near Peacock Hill Rd SE and Nelson Rd in Olalla. The victim was identified as 61-year-old Patricia Barnes, who had been shot twice in the head and left naked in a ditch, partially covered by a sleeping bag.
Yates was excluded as a suspect, as it was learned he was stationed in Alabama at the time of Barnes’ murder. Investigators narrowed down DNA submissions to a single unidentified man, but no match was found in the FBI’s DNA indexing system . The context from the DNA sources, being found at the crime scene and on Barnes’ body, suggested to detectives that it belonged to the person responsible for her murder.Within months, Othram scientists built a genealogical profile of the suspect and delivered this new lead to authorities in Dec. 2021.
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