Unidentified Remains

The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office is seeking assistance in identifying the unidentified remains listed below. It is our hope that the use of the Internet will greatly expand our reach and assist in finding relatives or friends of these persons.  If you have any information regarding any of the unidentified individuals listed here please contact our office at (425) 438-6200 or by email. NOTICE: All emails, and attachments, sent to and from Snohomish County are public records and may be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Act (RCW 42.56).  


Call 911 to report someone missing. If you have reported someone missing over 5 years ago and they are still missing, call the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office (425) 388-3393 (then press “0”) with the person’s full name and date of birth to check that they are still entered as a missing person; older cases may have been inadvertently removed from the database. If you check with the Sheriff's Office and they tell you that the person you are missing is not in the system, ask that they take a new missing person report.


The drawings below are by a forensic artist and are an interpretation of what the decedents may have looked like or may have looked similar to.  Hairstyle and color and eye color are guesses.  Our hope is that you see a resemblance in the likeness and be able to provide more information that may lead to an identity

Silohette
Sultan Basin Doe

Snohomish County Medical Examiner Case # 91SN0296

Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Case # 91-17849


On February 28, 1991 a fisherman on the Skykomish River near Startup found human remains on the river bank. Additional remains were discovered near High Bridge Road in Monroe on March 27, 1991. On August 21, 1991, citizens swimming in the south Snohomish River near Shorts School Road and Nevers Road near Snohomish discovered partial human remains in the river. Autopsy and DNA testing associated all of the remains to a white male, unknown age, unknown height, and unknown weight. The cause of death is homicidal violence.  

Snohomish County Medical Examiner Case # 07SN1070

Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Case # 07-08759


On April 9, 2007, workers inspecting land for logging timber found human skeletal remains near mile post 9 on Sultan Basin Road near Sultan, Washington. It appeared that the decedent was camping in the woods at that location. The remains are that of a white male estimated to be 20-50 years of age, of unknown height, and unknown weight. He is estimated to have been there from 1-5 years. The cause and manner of death are undetermined. 

200927-87

Snohomish County Medical Examiner Case # 200927-87

Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Case # 2020-151635


On September 26, 2020, human skeletal remains were found in a shallow grave in the 200 block of 130th Street NE is South Everett. The decedent is male, 22-43 years old, of Native American, Asian, Hispanic or mixed-race descent, 5'3"-5'9", and has been deceased between one and thirty years. The cause of death is undetermined at this time.