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Homicide 2000 - present

Please contact the listed detectives if you have any information regarding these cases:

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Name: Sharon Engelhart

Age: 49

 

sharonengelhart2Sharon Engelhart, age 49, was reported missing to the Kent Police on February 27th of 2001. She was witnessed that same day at a hotel on Pacific Hwy South in Des Moines. The next day some of her property was recovered in a park near the Regional Justice Center in Kent. Ultimately her skeletonized body was found down an embankment along side Hwy 516 near the Green River. She died of homicidal violence.

Detective Contact Information: Det. Scott Tompkins 206-205-7810

Rocio Contreas

Name: Rocio Contreas

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On early Sunday morning, 10-01-00, around 2:10am, the vehicles depicted above were driving N/B on the Benson Highway, located on the East Hill in Kent. A vehicle pulled along side both cars and fired multiple shots. A young female, Rocio Contreras, was killed. The occupants of both vehicle’s had just left the Mayas restaurant in downtown Kent.

Detective Contact Information: King County Major Crimes, Cold Case Squad 206/296-7530

Anna Fernen

Name: Anna Fernen

Anna Fernen was a student and basketball player at Foster High School in Tukwila when she went missing in late December of 2003. She frequented the area of Tukwila, Burien, and Kent. She often used the Metro transit system for transportation along Pacific Highway South. Her body was discovered in a wooded area, known as Cumberland, east of Maple Valley in September of 2005.

Detective Contact Information: King County Major Crimes, Cold Case Squad 206-296-7530

 
Anitra Mulwee

Name: Anitra Mulwee

Anitra Mulwee was last seen in downtown Seattle on New Years Eve, 2000. She was staying at the Crowne Plaza Hotel with a male friend. The male friend last saw her on the elevator around 11pm. Mulwee’s remains were later recovered off Highway 18, near Auburn in March of 2001.

Detective Contact Information: King County Major Crimes, Cold Case Squad 206-269-7530

 

Michael Ervin

Name: Michael Ervin

In June of 2004, Michael D. Ervin and other occupants were in a Chevy Tahoe at the Empire Terrace Apartments in the Skyway area of Renton. Several shots were fired at the Tahoe, causing the death of Ervin.

Detective Contact Information: Major Crimes Unit, Det. Sue Peters 206-205-3421

Intersection where the vehicle hit and run occurred

Name: Heja Hahn

Age: 65

Description of Event: On the evening of December 7th, 2004 65 year-old Heja Hahn was crossing South 129th Street near Martin Luther King Drive when she was struck by an unidentified vehicle and knocked to the ground, where she was struck by a second vehicle. Hahn died as a result of the injuries she received from being struck. Neither of the vehicles that struck Hahn stopped at the scene. Detectives obtained vague descriptions of the vehicles that struck Hahn but were not able to positively identify either one. Detectives believe that other motorists passing through the intersection at the time of the accident may have witnessed it but not come forward. Detectives are asking that anyone who may have witnessed this incident please contact them.

Detective Contact Information: King County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Squad. 206-296-7530.

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On 01/15/2003 skeletal remains were found in Coal Creek Park located in the 15400 block of SE Newcastle-Coal Creek Rd. An exam by the Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the man had died of a gunshot wound.

The remains belong to a Hispanic male between the ages of 24 and 35.

The shown sketches are a reconstruction artist’s depiction of what the man may have looked like.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call Det. Scott Tompkins at 206-205-7810