TACOMA — The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined that Nicole White died of homicidal violence. The ME reports that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and torso, Q13 FOX News confirmed Friday morning.
The body of Nicole White, 28, was found on June 20th in the woods near Kapowsin in Pierce County.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said White’s body was found near Timberline Forest Camp 1 Road East, but news of the discovery was not announced until Monday morning.
Search dogs had led investigators to the woods, the sheriff’s department said, and her body was found wrapped in a tarp.
White, a mother of two boys, was last seen the night of June 6 at Jeepers Bar in Spanaway with a man who had also been a customer there before, detectives and the bar’s owner said. She was reported missing a day later by her mother.
“Sunday morning, (she) didn’t show up for work, didn’t come to get her boys, which is very unlike her, she would either call if she was going to be late, text, something,” said her cousin Dana Johnson.
White’s red Dodge Neon was discovered Monday, June 8, over a ravine in the 26000 block of 70th Avenue East near Graham. Search dogs on the scene led detectives to a nearby pond. However, no sign of White was found until nearly two weeks later.
Police have arrested Jonathan Harris, 29, of Graham, he was on a date with White the night she was last seen. Last month, Harris pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
