Detective Beth Stewart-Kirth
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first heard Jul 2026
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Because the victims and the families in every single one of these cases truly deserve that, and they are still waiting.
We also want to thank our administration, Chief Lally, and all of our coworkers who helped us in this investigation with this project.
I also want to thank Chief Lally for having confidence in me as she moves me into the Cold Case Unit.
I'm truly honored to be a part of this unit and the work that we are doing every day.
Andrew, Chris, and I recently attended the International Homicide Investigators Cold Case Conference where we learned that according to National Institute of Justice, only 7% of policed agencies nationwide have a dedicated Cold Case Unit.
seven but with Chief Lally's foresight we are one of those agencies who are working to lead the charge on the issue we firmly believe that a full-time dedicated cold case unit is the best way to review investigate and solve these cases and we plan to continue our work doing just that in fact we're hosting a cold case symposium for area law enforcement professionals this fall with the goal of building even better cooperation in our area on cases like Waiterius
When we have updates over the summer on any of our cases, including Whiteyria's, we will certainly let our listeners know.
And just because the season is over doesn't mean that Whiteyria's investigation is.
Hopefully we will have more information in the coming months on her case, and we are still working several other cases with hosts of new leads and potentially resolutions in those cases as well.
And I'm Detective Beth Stewart-Kirth.
Yes, we do.
And coincidentally, when we were doing our family tree research, we learned that White Tyria did have some extended family in Texas.
We even spoke to some of them, but they were on her paternal side, so they didn't meet the MT DNA requirements that we have.
But because we know that she had family connections in Texas, that area might be another viable option for her.
Back in 2014, the Elgin Police Department was validating Whiteria's entry into Leeds to assure that she was still listed as missing.
Leeds validations are something that we conduct annually to ensure that people in the system are updated with new information, removed when needed, and so that we make sure that the entry still exists.
As you said earlier in the season, Whiteria's original Leeds entry had an error which wasn't discovered for months, so she actually wasn't listed in the system for nearly a year.
The Elgin Police reached out to the King County Clerk's Office, but they didn't have a record of who filed the court paperwork related to the 1997 affidavit.
So police turned to the attorney on record for the case.
Unfortunately, that paperwork was another dead-on.
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