EVERETT — Detectives may never know how an Everett man ended up dead at a recycling plant in October.
The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office has closed the investigation after ruling out suspicious causes. That determination was based on evidence and witness interviews, sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.
Travis A. Thurman, 23, died of blunt-force crushing injuries. His body was found Oct. 23 in a recycling bin in a warehouse at Fibres International on 94th Street SW in south Everett.
An employee found Thurman’s body at about 2:30 p.m. in a bin of materials that had been picked up to be recycled. Thurman didn’t work there.
Forensic evidence at the scene showed that Thurman was dead before he arrived at the warehouse and wasn’t killed by a loader there, public records show.
Detectives also followed the company’s delivery truck routes to try to trace where the body had come from earlier that day. The truck driver cooperated.
More than 40 pages of the investigation were released under state public records laws. The file doesn’t shed any additional light on what detectives believe may have happened to Thurman.
He graduated from Mariner High School in 2009, according to the Mukilteo School District.
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