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MMIWP task force reports cold‑case progress and gaps in law enforcement data and coordination
Summary
The state's MMIWP Task Force reported to the House committee that it has identified dozens of unsolved Indigenous homicides, advanced forensic genetic genealogy testing on unidentified remains, and documented gaps in law‑enforcement data collection and coordination.
Lucy Smartlett, senior tribal policy analyst at the Washington Attorney General's Office and an appointed member of the state's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Task Force, gave the committee a status report on the task force's investigations, data work and recommendations.
Smartlett said the task force's homicide investigative tracking system shows 470 homicide investigations out of 11,580 overall and that 117 to 122 of those involve Indigenous victims; she reported the most recent cold‑case accounting indicates 122 unsolved homicides of Indigenous people in Washington and that number is believed to be underreported. "We actually have a 122 unsolved homicides of indigenous people and they believe that is underreported for a variety of…
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