Patricia Lorraine Barnes, 61, was found murdered in a ditch alongside a rural road in Olalla, Washington, on August 25, 1995. Her body was unclothed, partially covered by a sleeping bag, and had been shot twice in the head. She had last been seen alive in Seattle three days earlier on August 22 and had no known connections to Kitsap County where she was found.

Investigators collected more than 130 pieces of evidence at the scene and produced a composite sketch from an eyewitness, but the case went cold. Robert Lee Yates was at one point considered and later ruled out. In 2018 detectives reopened the investigation and used modern forensic testing; DNA from a cigarette butt and other items was submitted for advanced analysis and forensic genealogy identified Douglas Keith Krohne as a suspect. Krohne, who would have been 33 in 1995 and had a prior criminal history, had died in an accidental electrocution in Arizona in 2016. A DNA sample from his autopsy matched the crime-scene DNA in February 2022.

Does anyone have information about Patricia’s last days in Seattle or who she may have been with between August 22 and August 25, 1995?