KELSO — Authorities say they’ve been able to identify human remains found near the southwest Washington community of Brookfield as those of a Kelso woman last seen alive on March 14, 2012.
Kelso police Capt. Darr Kirk said Friday that Molly L. Waddington, 44, was identified by analysts working with the Wahkiakum County coroner’s office and using a modern technique to extract DNA from bone. The woman’s daughter and sister donated DNA for comparison.
Incomplete skeletal remains were found in February 2013.
Officials don’t know how she died or how her remains got to the spot where they were found.
Kirk says police are going to treat the death as suspicious “until we don’t have any other direction to go, so we’re not ruling anything out.”
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