Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald, March 19, 2014

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Pierce County Sheriff’s Office seeks DNA of unidentified murder victim

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Weather The forecast calls for rain Wednesday with a high near 47 and lows to 39. Rain is forecasted to continue Thursday with highs to 49 and lows to 38. Friday will bring partly sunny skies with a high to 51. A chance of showers returns Saturday and Sunday with highs to 55 and lows to 40.

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Dog Day at the Academy

Sumner Police Officer Loren Houselog assisted in the K-9 demonstration at Sumner Citizen’s Academy Thursday night. K-9 Maverick and his handler, Officer Kevin Karuzas, of the Puyallup Police Department, demonstrated Maverick’s tracking abilities. Photo by Theresa De Lay

‘Grandparent Scam’ hits close to home Sarah Wehmann Staff Writer

We’ve all gotten those strange phone calls from

numbers we don’t know or from people we don’t know. Recently, Enumclaw resident Genevieve Bolson

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received two phone calls from someone claiming to be a grandchild of hers. The first time Bolson was called, she said she listened to a fair amount of the phone conversation. It was a quite lengthy and detailed call, she said, but halfway through she knew it was a hoax and had heard enough. “I told them they should know I was taping the

On March 18, 1989, a body was discovered by a hiker near the Carbon River. Little was known about the victim; he was buried in Sumner Cemetery under the name John Doe. Tuesday, March 11, nearly 25 years later, John Doe’s body was exhumed and an anthropologic investigation was launched. The Pierce County Sheriff ’s Department and Medical Examiner’s Office are reexamining the case, with the hopes of using new technology to reveal answers to old questions. The main purpose of exhuming the body is to extract a DNA sample, which could be used to establish John Doe’s true identity. His DNA will be entered into the publicly accessible NamUs, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. NamUs provides a data-

call and they immediately hung up,” Bolson said. Not long after, Bolson received another call. But this time she didn’t listen to much of the call before telling them she was taping it. The callers were posing as a grandchild of Bolson saying that they were hurt and needed money sent to them. She credits them for

See DNA, Page 4 being clever in the way they ask for the money. The callers wanted her to draw cash out and wire the money to a foreign country where an agent would send the money back to the appropriate place. “They make it so convincing,” she said. Bolson isn’t alone. Her brother’s neighbor was

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