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“It is our hope today’s development brings those who love Wendy one step closer to healing.”Ī spokesman for the department told the AP that Stephens’ family, seeking privacy as they grieve, had declined to speak to reporters. “Cases once thought unsolvable are now within reach thanks to such pioneering work,” the news release said, according to KIRO. In a news release from the sheriff’s office, investigators praised the technology that helped bring Stephens’ family answers about her fate. Her DNA was subsequently matched directly to that of her mother and father. Investigators then learned that Stephens had been reported missing in 1983. Using birth records, Census data and other information publicly available, they found where the two families met - with Stephens’ parents. (King County Sheriff's Office)Ĭairenn Binder of the nonprofit DNA Doe Project said the team working the case entered the unidentified victim’s DNA information into a geneaology website, which gave back several of the girl’s distant cousins from both her mother’s and father’s side of the family, the AP reported. Ridgway, now 71, is serving life in prison for a total of 49 murders. Gary Ridgway Gary Leon Ridgway is pictured in mugshots taken in 1982, left, and in 2001, at the time of his arrest for Green River Killer serial murders that plagued the Seattle area in the '80s and '90s. “Every person needs their name,” Taylor said in a statement obtained by the new station.

Unsolved serial killers victim names wa state