Green River killer: Lori Anne Razpotnik identified as one of his victims decades after her remains were discovered.
CNNCNN — For nearly 40 years, a set of human remains discovered near Seattle in 1985 were known to investigators only as Bones 17. King County authorities on Tuesday announced they identified the remains as belonging to Lori Anne Razpotnik, a teenager who ran away from her family’s home in Lewis County, south of Seattle, in 1982. Razpotnik’s remains were found in December 1985 near a second set of remains – referred to as Bones 16 – in the city of Auburn after police were called to investigate a car over an embankment, the King County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. “After extensive research, they concluded that the victim was Lori Anne Razpotnik,” the sheriff’s office said. “The King County Sheriff’s Office is immensely grateful for the work Parabon Nanolabs, The University of North Texas, the countless number of members of the King’s County Sheriff’s Office, the King County Prosecutor’s Office, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, and others who worked on helping identify Lori Anne Razpotnik, formerly known as Bones-17,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement to CNN.
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