Found Deceased WA - Cheryl DeBoer, 54, Mountlake Terrace, 8 February 2016 #1

[DatelineFan]

It's very uncommon for people in the Seattle area to wear dress coats at all, let alone to work, and unfortunately almost everyone has a black NorthFace or Patagonia jacket - it's almost a running joke here. It wouldn't even be incredulous if she wasn't wearing a jacket at all, as many people here wear cardigans or layers of clothing. Cheryl didn't have a strict dress code according to the pictures showing her inside the Fred Hutchinson building.

I agree with you, also, about husbands. I commuted WITH my husband to Seattle for years and I know for a fact he had no idea what I was wearing - and I was with him.

So funny you mention Patagonia jackets! I lived in Seattle the last few years, and a couple pages back, I mentioned them too! 😉

I totally agree! Layers!

 

[Seatowner]

It's very uncommon for people in the Seattle area to wear dress coats at all, let alone to work, and unfortunately almost everyone has a black NorthFace or Patagonia jacket - it's almost a running joke here.

I'm wearing my black Northface right now. Crazy how easily we're all profiled, lol.


The crazy part is how accurate. I work in a business environment and casual business is common. Seattle is definitely not New York or LA.



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[Treelights]

Well, dang it, I can't link to this but David Rose of KCPQ News in Seattle just posted on Facebook that the medical examiner has officially ID'ed Cheryl, but the manner and cause of death are still under investigation! Yeesh.

Both...manner and cause of death. What caused her death and how (manner) was it caused...
Interesting!
IMOO.

 

[otto]

http://mltnews.com/medical-examiner-confirms-identity-of-found-body/

That's good enough for me! Police have framed up the time as after 7AM on Monday and the location where something happened as the addresses of her car, the transit centre, and her body.

"Investigators are asking anyone who may have seen anything suspicious between 7 a.m. on Feb. 8 and 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 14 to come forward with information. Specifically, they are looking into suspicious activity, people, vehicles or noises near the Mountlake Terrace Library, the Transit Center and around the intersection of 244th Street Southwest and Cedar Way."

http://mltnews.com/medical-examiner-confirms-identity-of-found-body/

 

[Treelights]

I'm wearing my black Northface right now. Crazy how easily we're all profiled, lol.


The crazy part is how accurate. I work in a business environment and casual business is common. Seattle is definitely not New York or LA.



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A bit off topic here...

This is true.
When I arrived in Colorado in the 1980's, I was downtown and I was wearing a London Fog tan trench coat. A woman came up to me and asked me if I was from Chicago, because at that time women were wearing them in Chicago, but not here!! I said no. I came from a tour of Germany before I arrived here.
Interesting to say the least.
Also at that time period in the 1970's and 1980's in Germany if you were out an about and you saw someone in tennis shoes...it was pretty much guaranteed you were a US citizen, (soldier or dependent/family member). At least to my recollection.
Times have changed now.
Everybody wears tennis shoes it seems!

 

[Treelights]

That's good enough for me! Police have framed up the time as after 7AM on Monday and the location where something happened as the addresses of her car, the transit centre, and her body.

"Investigators are asking anyone who may have seen anything suspicious between 7 a.m. on Feb. 8 and 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 14 to come forward with information. Specifically, they are looking into suspicious activity, people, vehicles or noises near the Mountlake Terrace Library, the Transit Center and around the intersection of 244th Street Southwest and Cedar Way."

http://mltnews.com/medical-examiner-confirms-identity-of-found-body/

I think they are framing up the time frame to 7am because that's about when that text happened.
Since the text was on her phone, then it would only be natural to include from that time up until she was found. That still doesn't quite mean that she sent that text, (Imoo) but that text occurred at that time period, around that area.
I think it is logical to include all 3 of those areas, since they are of importance, and asking people to come forward incase they have seen anything, or heard anything, is imperative.
That could rule people in or out perhaps.Or there could be new discoveries made with more information. Pieces to the puzzle, if you will.
IMOO.

 

[Vresia]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160216/NEWS01/160219330
Blood stains found in Mountlake Terrace woman’s car

...The search warrant helps establish a timeline.
A surveillance system at the DeBoer’s home shows her husband leaving the house around 6:50 a.m. Feb. 8, a few minutes before Cheryl. He arrived at this work in Mukilteo around 7:15 a.m.

Another surveillance video at the intersection of 236th Street SW and 56th Avenue W showed what appeared to be Cheryl DeBoer’s vehicle passing at around 7 a.m. headed westbound.

At 7:02 a.m. a text was sent from Cheryl DeBoer’s phone to a carpool friend saying she forgot her identification badge needed for her job at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

 

[WhisperWorm]

......also on the news a grocery lady from rogers stated cheryl would come in often and they fill her orca card....... if cheryl carpooled was it only in the mornings ?? why would she be going to have orca filed at the local store

It's just easier for some people to use the service counter at a QFC (or similar) to buy their ORCA card every month. I'm still under the impression that Cheryl took the bus every day, and only used her car to get to the Park-N-Ride to meet her friends who did the same, because I haven't seen or heard a quote saying that her "carpool" was actually in a friend's car - just that she met with them and then carpooled into the city. (I think they are using "carpool" and "commuting" interchangeably.) Otherwise, why would they search the area downtown where she usually gets off of the bus? Why have a full-month of trips paid for on an ORCA card if you're not sure if you're even going to ever use it? If that was the case I'd just keep cash for the times I ended up using the bus (because ORCA cards expire.)

 

[Treelights]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160216/NEWS01/160219330
Blood stains found in Mountlake Terrace woman’s car

...The search warrant helps establish a timeline.
A surveillance system at the DeBoer’s home shows her husband leaving the house around 6:50 a.m. Feb. 8, a few minutes before Cheryl. He arrived at this work in Mukilteo around 7:15 a.m.

Another surveillance video at the intersection of 236th Street SW and 56th Avenue W showed what appeared to be Cheryl DeBoer’s vehicle passing at around 7 a.m. headed westbound.

At 7:02 a.m. a text was sent from Cheryl DeBoer’s phone to a carpool friend saying she forgot her identification badge needed for her job at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Wow!! Lots of info!!

Blood on the passenger seat...and passenger side door.

Do they have Cheryl ON VIDEO driving?

 

[otto]

Given the specific request for information from police (places and times), I'm still inclined to believe that she was accosted by someone at her car shortly after texting her friend, and that it was very likely a type of carjacking that resulted in assault and murder. I think it's quite possible that she originally parked at the transit centre, and that her car was parked in the overflow area after she was murdered. With the water levels, I also wonder if she was originally upstream, and that her body moved downstream with the water flow. Perhaps she was forced into the water alive, and she died from water in her lungs - although it's more likely that whomever forced her from her car used a weapon.

Pure Speculation ... and nothing more.

 

[otto]

This explains why the family was "grieving" and unable to speak to the media. The husband found the car, so he knew what happened long before it was made public:

"Police in Mountlake Terrace discovered the blood on the passenger seat of Cheryl DeBoer’s Subaru"

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160216/NEWS01/160219330

 

[katydid23]

wow. So that takes her husband off the hook. It is good for him that he went to work on time that day. Otherwise he could have lingered on the suspect list.

It appears that it was probably a roving predator that got her when she was distracted. :sigh:

 

[Treelights]

Given the specific request for information from police (places and times), I'm still inclined to believe that she was accosted by someone at her car shortly after texting her friend, and that it was very likely a type of carjacking that resulted in assault and murder. I think it's quite possible that she originally parked at the transit centre, and that her car was parked in the overflow area after she was murdered. With the water levels, I also wonder if she was originally upstream, and that her body moved downstream with the water flow. Perhaps she was forced into the water alive, and she died from water in her lungs - although it's more likely that whomever forced her from her car used a weapon.

Pure Speculation ... and nothing more.

Why would they car jack and not keep the car?
The motive was Cheryl. They wanted Cheryl.
IMOO.

 

[Yvettea]

It's possible they wanted information Cheryl had.

 

[Treelights]

This explains why the family was "grieving" and unable to speak to the media. The husband found the car, so he knew what happened long before it was made public:

"Police in Mountlake Terrace discovered the blood on the passenger seat of Cheryl DeBoer’s Subaru"

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160216/NEWS01/160219330

And this makes sense why the niece used the word Grieve/Grieving because they ALL knew
about the blood, imoo.They most likely figured she was deceased, because Grieving is a word used when a person is dead.
IMOO.

 

[JulieAnne]

A random carjacker/murderer is without a doubt - a threat to public safety.

 

[Treelights]

A random carjacker/murderer is without a doubt - a threat to public safety.

Exactly, but LE doesn't think there is an issue there at the moment...
Still don't understand that...
Unless they have an idea it was meant for Cheryl specifically. It was personal.
IMOO.

 

[JanetElaine]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160216/NEWS01/160219330
Blood stains found in Mountlake Terrace woman’s car

...The search warrant helps establish a timeline.
A surveillance system at the DeBoer’s home shows her husband leaving the house around 6:50 a.m. Feb. 8, a few minutes before Cheryl. He arrived at this work in Mukilteo around 7:15 a.m.

Another surveillance video at the intersection of 236th Street SW and 56th Avenue W showed what appeared to be Cheryl DeBoer’s vehicle passing at around 7 a.m. headed westbound.

At 7:02 a.m. a text was sent from Cheryl DeBoer’s phone to a carpool friend saying she forgot her identification badge needed for her job at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

With that time frame, she would have texted almost as soon as she parked. So she realized really quickly that she didn't have her badge. That makes me think she likely kept her badge in her car.

Something is off, here.

Also, the security system saw Cheryl leave? So that's how they know.

And, I guess this rules out the husband. He had no time at all to do anything to her. Not knowing exactly where he works, the drive time between the towns works out. Good. I'm glad about that, at least.

 

[otto]

Why would they car jack and not keep the car?
The motive was Cheryl. They wanted Cheryl.
IMOO.

The person that did this most likely needed to get back to either his own vehicle, or the area where he was when this happened. It's not unusual for women to be carjacked, murdered, and the perp returns the vehicle to within a couple of blocks of the abduction. It's usually because that is where the perp left his own vehicle.

The motive could very well be sexual assault, and Cheryl happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and not paying attention (she was texting with her friend).

 

[DatelineFan]

Why would they car jack and not keep the car?
The motive was Cheryl. They wanted Cheryl.
IMOO.

I think so, too. And that is bleeping terrifying! Her poor family! Poor Cheryl. Oh my goodness!