MUKILTEO – Skeletal remains found in a wooded area are likely those of a cancer patient reported missing last year, police said Wednesday.
A gun registered to the missing woman, 48, was found at the scene, Police Chief Mike Murphy said. Officers also found a woman’s headband.
The woman’s family reported her missing Aug. 14, 2003. She left a copy of her will and some stock certificates on the counter of her home before disappearing.
“There was no question in the family’s mind or ours that we probably wouldn’t find her alive,” Murphy said. “We’ve always felt we were looking for a suicide victim.”
The remains, which were not buried, were found Tuesday by two teenage boys walking through the wooded property near the intersection of 47th Place W. and 107th Street SW, Murphy said.
Police do not suspect foul play, he said.
The remains were turned over to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office to identify and determine a cause of death.
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