United States: Over 16 years after a 33-years-old woman’s body was found captivated, three people have been arrested in death of Shanan Lynn Read in Washington.
The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) mentioned in the statement they worked with law enforcement all over the nation this week to take the 3 men into custody. A fourth suspect in the case has died since the incident took place.
Moreover, a 39-year-old man was detained on Monday in Philadelphia state. A 42-year-old was detained in Sarasota, Florida, as well as was apprehended in Riverside, California, on Tuesday.
The decomposed body of Reed was found floating in a plastic container in Puget Sound on January 15, 2006. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildfire turned the case over to the sheriff’s office after responding to an unsure object floating between Manchester as well as Blake Island and discovering the body.
In the month of March 2006, the head of Read was found in the same general vicinity. She was identified using fingerprint analysis.
The investigation discovered that Read was killed in the month of August 2005, five months before her body was discovered, when she was struck in the head with a metal baton.
In addition, investigators found she was wounded at an apartment in Seattle, then taken to a cabin in Port Orchard, where she was dead. For weeks, the accused returned to the cabin, which was owned by a family member, as well as poured chemicals over her body to speed up decomposition, before disposing of her body to speed up decomposition, before disposing of her body.
Lt. Ken Dickins with KCSO mentioned in the statement, “This is one of the more brutal cases that I have seen in 30 years of working here.”
Michael Thomason, a separate man, helped dump her body as well as was later convicted of unlawful disposal of human remains.
The detectives also identified four suspects in the murder as they pursued leads and interviewed witnesses over the years. Over the previous ten months, investigators finally confirmed the participation of the four suspects.
