Child's Remains Found After Four Years

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LYNNWOOD, Wash. - Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office detectives believe they have recovered the remains of a girl, about four years old, whose body was hidden in a plastic tote in Everett.

Detectives believe she died at least four years ago.

The circumstances surrounding the girl’s death and the disposal of her remains are under investigation.

The plastic tote was recovered after police served a search warrant in a home in the12600 block East Gibson Road in Everett Saturday.

On Tuesday, detectives and investigators from the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the tote contained the body of a young girl.

Her identification and the cause and manner of her death have not yet been determined.

The sheriff’s office began investigating the girl’s death and disappearance in October after information was received from a relative of the girl who said they were concerned about her disappearance.

Relatives of the girl told officers they believed the child had died at a home in the 15800 block of Admiralty Way in Lynnwood while the she was under the supervision of her biological mother.

Police said it was reported that the mother and her then-boyfriend had a history with law enforcement and “panicked” when they discovered the girl had died.

Relatives believed that the girl’s mother and boyfriend had wrapped up the girl, put her body into a storage container and kept it in their home until it began to decompose and smell.

Relatives told detectives they thought that the couple then poured concrete over the body in the container and kept it for several years, later stashing it a relative's home not long after moving out of their home on Admiralty Way.

Police said the girl’s mother told family members, including her other children, several versions of how the girl died.

The girl was never reported dead or missing to any law enforcement agency and was never enrolled in any school. The last official record that shows evidence to her being alive was Sept. 2010, when she received an immunization.

Currently, no arrests have been made and the circumstances surrounding the girl’s death and the disposal of her body remain under investigation.

The sheriff's office is working with Child Protective Services and the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services in the investigation.

Key developments:
Remains believed to be that of 4-year-old girl
Girl believed to have died 4 years ago
Relatives say girl lived with mother when she died
Death was never reported
Detectives began investigation last month
Remains were found Tuesday in Everett










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[CrunchyCripple]

I think this situation is more common than we know.

[blaze915]

The system is fucked up

[CannaChick]

Poor baby.

[FunkPumpkin]

I'm starting to find that bad news sucks worse when you've lived where it happened.

I used to live in Everett, which is just north of Lynnwood. Lynnwood is shitty enough that even people from Everett can call it an eyesore, with all of its shitty-looking houses surrounded by shitty-looking strip malls. That is, unless you're looking to get a handy from one of the 10,000 Asian Jack Shacks... ahem, Asian Massage Parlors there.