How a dogged detective in the murder of an indigenous woman led to the murderer’s sentence
When the mutilated body of Mavis Kindness Nelson, a Seattle woman who worked as a front desk worker at a halfway house, was found a year ago in a wooded ravine near the University of Washington campus, her family was left with little. confidence that his killer will be caught.They knew the statistics surrounding missing and murdered Native American women like Nelson were grim, particularly in Washington state, where the rate of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women is about four times greater than that of white women."I didn't think they were going to listen to me then," Ernestine…
