Seattle police opened a homicide investigation after officers found a man with obvious signs of trauma in a Madison Park parking lot.
A 19-year-old UW student was found fatally stabbed in a laundry room at Nordheim Court student housing near the UW campus. A 31-year-old man was arrested after turning himself in.
Police responded to an apartment in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and found a 39-year-old man dead with multiple puncture wounds.
Marcia Norman, 82, was reported missing in April 2025. Investigators discovered her body buried beneath a shed on her property and arrested a handyman who had worked for her.
Missing since 1998, Joseph Louis Serrao Jr.’s remains (discovered in 2000) were identified in 2025 through forensic genetic genealogy, closing a 26-year mystery.
Skeletal remains were discovered and later identified as Krista Athay, who had been missing since 2024. The cause and manner of death remained under investigation.
Human remains found in 2026 near Spanaway / Joint Base Lewis-McChord were identified as a woman who had been missing since 2022. Authorities opened a criminal investigation.