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Homicide 1970 - 1979
Please contact the listed detectives if you have any information regarding these cases:
Name: Brenda Baker
Age: 14
14-year-old Brenda Joy Baker lived in the Maple Valley Area. She was hitchhiking from Maple Valley to Fort Lewis, but was last seen hitchhiking in the Puyallup area on May 27th 1974. She was wearing a brown corduroy jacket, red bell bottom pants, and a red blouse.
Her body was found on June 17th, 1974 in the very northeast corner of Millersylvania State Park in Thurston County.
Anyone with information on the death of Brenda Baker is asked to call the Cold Case Squad.
Detective Contact Information: Det. Scott Tompkins 206-205-7810
Name: Arlene Roberts
Age: 81
Arlene Roberts lived alone in her trailer in Skyway. Her neighbors did a welfare check on her and found her trailer ransacked. They called police who entered the trailer and found the victim dead in her bedroom on 10/27/1978.
Anyone with information regarding Arlene Roberts murder, please call the King County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit at 206-205-7810.
Name: Charles Patterson
Charles Patterson was working the graveyard shift as a clerk at the 7-11 located at 836 NE 185th in Shoreline the night of October 4th-5th, 1977 when he was shot to death in an apparent robbery.
Anyone with information is asked to call the King County Sheriff’s Cold Case Squad.
Detective Contact Information: Det. Jim Allen 206-205-7887
Names: Barbara Rosenfield & Frank Hinkley
In November of 1975 Frank “Sharky” Hinkley and Barbara Rosenfield were found shot to death inside the Bear Cave Tavern owned by Hinkley. The Bear Cave was a topless dancing establishment and their murders seem to be related to the adult entertainment business in 1970’s Seattle. Detectives have strong leads in this case and are seeking additional information that will allow them to move forward with murder and conspiracy charges.
Suspect information can be left anonymously via voice mail or email.
Detective Contact Information: Det. Scott Tompkins 206/205-7810
Name: Elizabeth Larsen
Age: 21
Elizabeth Larsen was last seen by her family on February 23rd 1970. She did not return home that night and was reported missing on February 26th. On April 22nd 1970 her body was found buried in a shallow grave in Eastern King County. Elizabeth was fond of the club scene in Ballard and Seattle. Detectives would like to speak to anyone who knew Elizabeth or associated with her at nightclubs in Ballard or in the Broadway district in Seattle.
On 04/24/72 Betty Hughes was found stabbed to death in her home in the 19800 block of 18 Ave S in what is now the city of Seatac. Her death may be related to an auto repair business Hughes had recently visited, and patrons of Digby’s Tavern in West Seattle. Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the Cold Case Squad.
Detective Contact Information: Det. Scott Tompkins 206/205-7810
Name: Nancy Liptrap
Age: 16
16 year old Nancy Liptrap was a student at Mt. Rainer Junior High School and lived in 20900 block 9th Avenue South in Des Moines. She left her home on the morning of January 12th, 1972 at approx. 0800 to catch her school bus. She did not make it to school that morning and she was reported missing on January 13th, 1972. On the afternoon of January 15th, 1972 her body was found in vacant lot ½ block from her home, along the route she would have taken to get to her bus stop. She had been assaulted and shot. Detectives are seeking information from Nancy’s friends or persons who lived in her neighborhood at the time she was murdered.
Tammy Vincent was a juvenile prostitute working in a body studio near the Seatac Airport. She was murdered on a beach in Marin County, California in 1979. Her death is directly related to her pending testimony in a promoting prostitution investigation involving the body studio in Seattle. Detectives have strong leads in this case, and are seeking additional information.
In November of 1975 Frank “Sharky” Hinkley and Barbara Rosenfield were found shot to death inside the Bear Cave Tavern owned by Hinkley. The Bear Cave was a topless dancing establishment and their murders seem to be related to the adult entertainment business in 1970’s Seattle. Detectives have strong leads in this case and are seeking additional information that will allow them to move forward with murder and conspiracy charges.
