EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Snohomish County Sheriff’s office cold case detectives have identified a suspect in two unsolved disappearances from 1995.
Tracey Brazzel, 22, was reported missing in June 1995 and was assumed dead. At the time of her disappearance, blood samples were collected from her car. Later that year, 26-year-old Patti Berry was found dead from stab wounds in a wooded area. Blood samples were also collected in her case.
The blood samples in both cases included DNA that didn’t belong to the women. That DNA was finally matched this year with that of a 43-year-old registered sex offender serving time in prison for indecent exposure.
He has not been arrested in the two cold cases.
