WA Snohomish County Sheriffs announcing break in 1980's cold case, 11a.m, 12 Aug 2020

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Aug 12 2020
Snohomish County officials to announce break in 1980s cold case
''Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney, Detective Jim Scharf, and other officials are announcing a break in a homicide case from the late 80s.''

''Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney will be joined by Major Crimes Unit Detective Jim Scharf and two medical examiners during a news conference at 11 a.m.

Check back for a live stream of the news conference.

This is the third break in Snohomish County cold cases in the past few months. ''

 

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ETA Ws thread..
WA - WA - Everett, Male UP2137, 35-75, Lake Stickney, June '94

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August 12, 2020
''SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — After finding a body Lake Stickney in 1994, Snohomish County officials say they've finally identified who the person is nearly 26 years later.

Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit, Cold Case Team and the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office say the body is that of Rodney Peter Johnson.


Johnson was last seen by family members sometime around late 1987 or early 1988 when he left on a camping trip, according to the sheriff's office.

On June 11, 1994, his body was found floating in Lake Stickney.''

 

[Marg from Oz]

1988-1994 That is 6 years. Long time for a body to be found floating. If he died in 1994 where had he been for 4 years. This is a strange one. IMO.

 

[LotsaLatte]

‘’According to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner, his body was covered in adipocere - a soap-like substance. That indicates his body had likely been underwater for years.

Detectives believe he was killed in 1987 and his body was weighted down under water.’’


Snohomish County officials identify body of man missing since the 1980s | king5.com

 

[Marg from Oz]

Wow you learn something different every day. Now, who would be using adipocere or did his body produce it?

 

[dotr]

Wow you learn something different every day. Now, who would be using adipocere or did his body produce it?

Ewww! rbbm.
Adipocere - Wikipedia
''Adipocere (/ˈædɪpəˌsɪər, -poʊ-/[1][2]), also known as corpse wax, grave wax or mortuary wax, is a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. In its formation, putrefaction is replaced by a permanent firm cast of fatty tissues, internal organs, and the face.''

"In 1825, physician and lecturer Augustus Granville is believed to have (somewhat unwittingly) made candles from the adipocere of a mummy and used them to light the public lecture he gave to report on the mummy's dissection. Granville apparently thought that the waxy material from which he made the candles had been used to preserve the mummy, rather than its being a product of the saponification of the mummified body.[4]

The body of the "Soap Lady", whose corpse turned itself into adipocere, is displayed in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[5]''