SPOKANE, Wash. — The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division Three, upheld the murder conviction of a former Pasco Police officer in the 1986 killing of Ruby Doss, according to a ruling filed September 10, 2026.
Doss, 27, was found dead in an industrial area near North Fiske Street and East Ferry Avenue in Spokane. Investigators determined she died from blunt force trauma to the head and manual strangulation.
The main dispute on appeal centered on DNA evidence tied to a condom found near the crime scene and later testing of the paper evidence bag that held it…