Tammie Liles was just 16 when she disappeared
The remains of a teenage victim have been identified as the 49th and last known set linked to the Green River Killer case.
The King County Sheriff’s Office in Washington state said Monday the remains belong to 16-year-old Tammie Liles. Her partial remains were found at a location investigators were led to in 2003, and labeled Bones 20.
Authorities said her identification resulted from extensive testing and research by a forensic sequencing laboratory contracted by the King County Sheriff’s Office. Other attempts to identify the remains throughout the years had been unsuccessful.
Liles was first identified as a victim in 1988 after dental records were matched to a partial set of remains found near the Tualatin Golf Course near Tigard, Oregon.
The rest of the remains were found in Kings County, but had remained unidentified for decades.
Her mother later was contacted, and detectives obtained a DNA sample from her. This sample was sent to the University of North Texas, which was used to identify her.