Elisha Ann King, 34, of Yakima, Washington, was killed on March 16, 2023, in Klickitat County near Goldendale. She was one of two victims in a double homicide; the other was Jeremy Allen Wyatt, 35, also from Yakima. Investigators located what they described as the homicide scene on Box Canyon Road north of Goldendale and a separate site along Highway 97 on the Yakama Nation Tribal Reservation where both bodies were burned.
An autopsy found both victims had been shot before their bodies were burned. Law enforcement identified 29-year-old John Scott Raczykowski of Rufus, Oregon, as the primary suspect and sought him on two counts of first-degree murder. Deputies arrested Raczykowski after a short standoff at an address off SE McTaggart Road in Jefferson County, Oregon, early on April 9, 2023. A second man, 57-year-old Larry Duane Kleven, was arrested March 17, 2023, and charged with rendering criminal assistance in the first degree for destruction of physical evidence.
Multiple agencies assisted in the investigation. The sheriff suggested the killings might be drug-related but no motive has been confirmed. Does anyone have information about Elisha King, her movements in March 2023, or any details that could help the investigation?