A local cold case is heating up thanks to new technology related to DNA.
This week, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office identified a woman who was found dead in a yard waste bin in a vacant lot nearly seven years ago as Linda Lee Schock. Schock’s skeletal remains were discovered by an excavator clearing out a dilapidated trailer in 2019.
Since her body was found, the case went cold. The crime scene is long gone and a new house was constructed over it, but neighbors never stopped wondering about what happened there…