Victim. Daughter of Robert and Patricia Holmin. Carol was 21 years of age. She was last seen after lunch when she walked out of the Barn Door Tavern on Pacific Avenue South on May 3, 1983. She had been planning to return later for her evening shift as a waitress. Carol was a young mother separated from her husband, she was determined to make it. Her remains were found 6 days later, Mother's Day, May 8, 1983, by a family hunting for mushrooms in a wooded section of Maple Valley, just off SE 244th Street and Hwy. 169. She had been strangled. Her body had been dunked in water and reclothed backwards, she had one shoe on the wrong foot, the other shoe was not found. She had a bag placed over the head. Two cleaned fish were laid across her body. She had raw sausage around her, a wine bottle in her hand. She had no arrests or contacts with the local police, but was last seen in an area where the killer was known to operate. Carol was a registered member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Browning, Mont., moved to Grays Harbor, Washington, in 1969 from Weippe, Idaho, where she grew up in Hoquiam in a large family. In 1980 she married Dennis Christensen. They had a daughter. Carol was a murder victim of Gary Leon Ridgway, known as "The Green River Killer" who was responsible for the murder of 49 women in Seattle, Washington, between 1982 and 1984.
Victim. Daughter of Robert and Patricia Holmin. Carol was 21 years of age. She was last seen after lunch when she walked out of the Barn Door Tavern on Pacific Avenue South on May 3, 1983. She had been planning to return later for her evening shift as a waitress. Carol was a young mother separated from her husband, she was determined to make it. Her remains were found 6 days later, Mother's Day, May 8, 1983, by a family hunting for mushrooms in a wooded section of Maple Valley, just off SE 244th Street and Hwy. 169. She had been strangled. Her body had been dunked in water and reclothed backwards, she had one shoe on the wrong foot, the other shoe was not found. She had a bag placed over the head. Two cleaned fish were laid across her body. She had raw sausage around her, a wine bottle in her hand. She had no arrests or contacts with the local police, but was last seen in an area where the killer was known to operate. Carol was a registered member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Browning, Mont., moved to Grays Harbor, Washington, in 1969 from Weippe, Idaho, where she grew up in Hoquiam in a large family. In 1980 she married Dennis Christensen. They had a daughter. Carol was a murder victim of Gary Leon Ridgway, known as "The Green River Killer" who was responsible for the murder of 49 women in Seattle, Washington, between 1982 and 1984.
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