After 37 years, the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) and the DNA Doe Project (DDP) announce that Wendy Stevens has been identified as one of the many victims of Washington state's Green River Killer. Our laboratory at Astrea Forensics received skeletal samples from the 1984 Jane Doe in April via KCSO and DDP. We performed DNA extractions using methods optimized for archaeological human remains and other ancient DNA samples, and sent to Discovery Life Sciences for sequencing and analysis.
As always, this case was solved thanks to the contributions of many people and agencies. Read more about the entire success story here: DNA Doe Project: Bones 10 84-054800 Jane Doe 1984