YAKIMA — The FBI says a string of deaths on the Yakama reservation was not the work of a serial killer.
Federal officials released results Wednesday of a two-year cold-case investigation of 16 deaths from 1980 to 1993.
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the probe did not turn up enough evidence to move forward with any charges. The U.S. attorney from Spokane, Jim McDevitt, says it did dispel the idea that a serial killer was responsible.
Of the 16 cases, the FBI says two resulted in murder convictions, 10 are believed to be homicides, two were ruled accidental drownings, one was hypothermia and another was inconclusive.
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