Detectives seek help to identify woman found dead in suitcase in Kent near the Green River

Published 11:33 am Tuesday, June 16, 2015

King County Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for help to identify a woman found dead in a suitcase on May 27 near the Green River in unincorporated Kent.

The woman is believed to be Caucasian, age 50 to 60, about 5-feet-4 inches tall and 106 pounds, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Her hair was black with gray streaks and shoulder length.

The woman had no injuries, was properly nourished but had cirrhosis of the liver from long-term heavy alcohol consumption based on the autopsy, according to a Sheriff’s Office media release on Tuesday. She had no scars, marks or tattoos.

The medical examiner believes the woman died in the first week of May. The examiner did not give a cause of death.

She wore full dentures but none were recovered. She wore sleeping-type clothes, a purple short-sleeve shirt with flowers and an adult diaper.

Detectives responded near the 24900 block of Frager Road South on May 27 after a passerby saw what were believed to be human remains. The body was found in a vacant lot about one-half mile south of the Meeker Street Bridge, near the Old Fishing Hole Park and across from the Riverbend Golf Complex as well as the popular Green River Trail.

A reader posted on the Kent Reporter website in late May that he had found the body in a big suitcase.

Anyone with information about the woman is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 206-296-3311.