Pierce County detectives have solved a cold case murder – an 18-year-old girl whose body washed up on the banks of the Puyallup River 36 years ago.
Detectives in Pierce County solve the cold case murder of Tracy Whitney, whose body was found in the Puyallup River in August of 1988.
Detectives interviewed potential suspects and obtained DNA. Some agreed to take polygraph tests. Eventually each suspect was slowly and methodically eliminated as possible persons of interest. In 2021, after the passage of more than three decades, now-retired Detective Sergeant Lynelle Anderson looked into the case as a possible candidate for a grant application through the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
“He had also been cremated, so there was no DNA to compare to the suspect DNA profile,” Kirkegaard said in the video released by the sheriff’s office.She reached out to the Washington State Patrol and found out they could confirm Guillot’s identity by using other family members’ DNA as a comparison.With assistance from the medical examiner’s office, they obtained his DNA and then compared it to the male DNA obtained from Tracy’s body.
“I just want people to know that Tracy was a good kid,” said Tracy’s dad, Ron Whitney. “She was a young lady that all the little kids looked up to in the neighborhood. The best way I can describe her is what her best friend’s mother said, which was, ‘Tracy was sweet. She was family.'”
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