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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· King County, WA

The Ziegler Homicide (1979)

Unsolved homicide from 1979 in King County, WA. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the forensic lab record.

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Abandoned warehouse interior lit by a single shaft of light
Timeline
  1. 1979

    Body discovered near Fenmark; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1980

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 1998

    Records are digitised and released under a public records request.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

Community leads
2 filed
mapsandtime10 days ago

The bus terminal manifest for that week survives in a transit archive. It has never been cross-checked against the suspect list.

78 agree
tidewater1 week ago

A retired deputy's field notebook, released last year, names a person of interest absent from the official file.

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