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Dana Kirkland, 41 (Thurston County Sheriff’s Office)

Remains found in a remote wooded area in Thurston County last month have been identified as those of a missing White Center woman, 41-year-old Dana Kirkland, according to the Thurston County Coroner’s Office.

Thurston County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating how her body ended up where it did near Highway 101 and Whittaker Road Northwest.

An autopsy revealed no foul play or trauma, but her cause of death has yet to be determined, according to a coroner’s release.

Kirkland was reported missing from White Center in King County on Feb. 18, but investigators believe she last accessed her computer Dec. 27, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The same day, a 2013 Chevrolet Equinox that was reported stolen from near White Center was found at the end of Whittaker Road in Thurston County.

The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office asks anyone with information about Kirkland’s disappearance or the stolen Chevrolet Equinox to call the office at 360-786-5500 during business hours, 360-704-2740 after hours or e-mail them at detectives@co.thurston.wa.us.

Ira Thomas Clodfelter, 28, of Redmond hasn’t been heard from since Sunday. (Redmond Police Department photo)

A Redmond man known to suffer from cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that sometimes makes it hard to breath, has gone missing and police are requesting help to find him.

A search and rescue team from the King County Sheriff’s Office found 28-year-old Ira Thomas Clodfelter’s vehicle parked at Rattlesnake Mountain Tuesday night in North Bend, but could find no sign of him in the area. Their search for  him will resume tomorrow at 8 a.m.

Clodfelter is described as white, 5-foot-4, 125 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen in a blue zip-up hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and hiking boots. A release from the Redmond Police Department said there is also some concern he may have been suffering from depression.

The last anyone heard from Clodfelter was on Sunday, according to police. An employer called the police about him when he didn’t show up for work this week.

The Redmond Police Department asks anyone with more information about Clodfelter’s disappearance to call  425-556-2500.

Heather M. Hemmer (Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office photo)

A 28-year-old mother is missing, and the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding her.

Heather M. Hemmer has been messing since Jan. 11. Her children are safe, but it is unusual for Hemmer to be out of contact with them, and relatives are worried, the sheriff’s office says.

Hemmer is 5-foot-3 and 122 pounds. She has blonde hair, blue eyes and a number of tattoos. The sheriff’s office says she may be in either Everett or Arlington.

Anybody who has information about Hemmer’s whereabouts should contact the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 425-388-3845.

A car with the bodies of a man and woman inside has been pulled from the Snohomish River.

A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy at the scene in the 6600 block of Riverview Road, near the town of Snohomish, said “all indications” are that the 1999 red Mitsubishi Mirage is connected to a couple reported missing earlier this month. Snohomish residents Jason J. Dolman, 31, Riza P. Ysulat, 36, have been missing since Jan. 8.

Dolman and Ysulat, who are dating, have not been to work since Jan. 8, and their cellphones have been turned off, the Sheriff’s Office said. Medications and other personal items were left behind at their homes.

Identification of the bodies, as well as the cause and manner of death, will be determined by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.

On Tuesday, the Sheriff’s Office announced that they were searching for the couple. They were believed to be driving a red 1999 Mitsubishi Mirage, Washington license plate AJN4025, the Sheriff’s Office says in a news release.

Jason J. Dolman / Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office photos

Riza P. Ysulat

Two Snohomish residents have been missing since Jan. 8, and the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help to find them.

Neither Jason J. Dolman, 31, nor Riza P. Ysulat, 36, have been at their jobs since Jan. 8.

Dolman and Ysulat, who are dating, left  medications and other personal items in their homes. Both their cellphones have been turned off, the sheriff’s office says.

They were driving a red 1999 Mitsubishi Mirage, Washington license plate AJN4025, the sheriff’s office says in a news release.

Anybody who has seen Dolman or Ysulat or the car is asked to call the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 425-388-3845.

A body recovered yesterday from the White River near Game Farm Park in Auburn was a man who was reported missing on Wednesday, according to Auburn police.

The man has been identified as Kenneth Neil Collins, 47.

Collins was reported missing by the manager of his apartment complex in Auburn. His apartment door had been left open and he had earlier been seen walking around the complex insufficiently dressed for the cold weather, police said.

There were no signs of foul play on Collins’ body, police said.

The Associated Press

SEDRO-WOOLLEY – A body found in Sedro-Woolley has been identified as an 80-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease who wandered away Oct. 1 from a memory care home.

The Skagit Valley Herald reports the body of Ramon “Ray” Jones was found Wednesday hidden in tall grass on residential property about half-mile away.

County search crews using dogs, helicopters and thermal cameras had looked for Jones for a week. His niece, Bonnie Jones Graham of Billings, Mont., covered the area with missing person fliers.

Jones grew up in Ennis, Mont., served in the Army in Korea and lived in Anacortes and Mill Creek before moving to the Sedro-Woolley home.

COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. – Authorities say a missing 79-year-old Seattle man has been found dead on a logging road near the Douglas-Lane county line in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Seattle police Detective David Ogard told The Register-Guard on Monday that Sherman Davis suffered from dementia and disappeared last month from an independent-living facility in Seattle.

His body was found Friday.

The death is not believed to be suspicious. Ogard says Douglas County sheriff’s officers are investigating.

Police in the city of Pacific say no crime was committed when an Auburn woman was reported missing last weekend, prompting an extensive search.

The family of 27-year-old Tatyana Khmara reported her missing Saturday after she hadn’t been seen since the previous evening, when she was spotted with a man at a park in Pacific. Police spokeswoman Stephanie Shook said Khmara was seen by her brother at the park and he spoke with her. Shook says he didn’t know the man she was with, but she didn’t appear to need help.

Her family started looking for her after she did not appear for work. They found her car at the park.

Khmara called her family Monday afternoon after seeing herself on the news.

Shook said today that Khmara voluntarily went with the man she was seen with on Friday evening.  Detectives have determined there was no crime committed, she said.

As for the cost incurred by the search for the woman, Shook said the searchers were ” outstanding volunteers who are not paid.”

Tatyana Khmara. (City of Pacific Police Department photo)

A missing Auburn woman has been located, but the case is still a mystery for Pacific police.

Spokeswoman Stephanie Shook says 27-year-old Tatyana Khmara called her family Monday afternoon after seeing herself on the news.

Shook wouldn’t say where Khmara was, but police do say she didn’t know how she got there.

Detectives are investigating whether or not she was a victim of a crime and whether a man she was seen with on Friday evening is a suspect.

The two were spotted together by Khmara’s brother at a park in the city of Pacific. When she missed work Saturday her family reported her missing.

Her car was found in the park and police dogs tracked a scent to the nearby White River where searchers looked Sunday and Monday morning.