"Another statistic of missing Indigenous women"

The Daily Crime

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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A body found on the University of Washington's campus in Seattle in June has been identified as that of a 56-year-old missing woman. Police are still looking for her killer. KING5 Reporter Sebastian Robertson tells us about case. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up. We all feel it, especially because our community is so small. For Vault Studios, I'm
0:06.8	Will Johnson. You're listening to The Daily Crime. In June, a body was found on the University of
0:16.7	Washington's campus in Seattle. Police have identified the victim as a 56-year-old woman.
0:22.4	They are still searching for her killer.
0:24.6	She was a sweet person.
0:25.9	She was very kind to allow me to come in her home when I had nowhere to go.
0:31.0	And so when I heard about this news, I felt really sad because she was just a sweet, sweet person.
0:40.8	I'm joined now by King Five news reporter Sebastian Robertson in Seattle, Washington.
0:45.5	I want to talk to you about this case, Mavis Nelson.
0:48.7	Her body was found back in mid to late June.
0:52.4	What do we know about her a little bit before we get started?
0:55.8	Yeah, this story is kind of a heavy one.
0:59.7	Mavis Nelson was a mother of three,
1:02.5	working jobs throughout her career, odd jobs here and there.
1:06.7	And by some accounts, you know, she had attended some college.
1:10.5	She was 56 years old.
1:13.0	And her body was found in June, June 20th in Seattle.
1:17.3	It was pretty close to the University of Washington on this trail called the Burt Gilman Trail,
1:23.4	which is like a bike path that goes for quite a ways here in western Washington.
1:28.3	She was found in June, but wasn't identified until August,
1:32.5	and a medical examiner determined that Nelson was killed by stabbing,
1:39.7	stabbed multiple times.
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