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Mary Cooper

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Mary Cooper

Birth
Springfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
11 Jul 2006 (aged 56)
Verlot, Snohomish County, Washington, USA
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Deputies rule out murder-suicide in women's deaths on trailBy ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIEAssociated Press WriterEVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Two women killed on a hiking trail near Mount Pilchuck died of gunshot wounds, and investigators have ruled out murder-suicide, the Snohomish County sheriff's office said Friday.Deputy Rich Niebusch has said the women possibly died in a random attack and urged anyone hiking on nearby trails to be extra cautious.The victims were identified as Mary Cooper, 56, and her daughter, Susanna Stodden, 27, both of Seattle.They were last seen alive Tuesday morning. A passer-by found their bodies a few hours later toward the end of a nearly 2-mile trail to Pinnacle Lake, about 50 miles northeast of Seattle, in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Niebusch said.Chuck Keller, 74, who manages the nearby Gold Basin campground, said the man and woman who discovered the bodies were visibly shaken."He said he saw two ladies on the trail that looked like they were going to the bathroom, then he looked at them and saw they were deceased and they left in a hurry,'' Keller said.The FBI was aiding the investigation because the killings took place in a national forest, said a spokeswoman in the bureau's Seattle office.Niebusch said investigators have received dozens of tips, but released no information about what they've learned.Cooper was a librarian at an elementary School in Seattle. Her daughter had worked for the Audubon Society in Seattle and had jobs in salmon stream enhancement and outdoor education.Cooper's husband, David Stodden, and his two other daughters, 24-year-old Elisa Stodden and 21-year-old Joanna Stodden, hiked Friday to Boardman Lake, not far from where the women were killed."It felt really important to go where we were afraid to go,'' Elisa Stodden said at a brief family news conference.AP-ES-07-15-06 0042EDT
Deputies rule out murder-suicide in women's deaths on trailBy ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIEAssociated Press WriterEVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Two women killed on a hiking trail near Mount Pilchuck died of gunshot wounds, and investigators have ruled out murder-suicide, the Snohomish County sheriff's office said Friday.Deputy Rich Niebusch has said the women possibly died in a random attack and urged anyone hiking on nearby trails to be extra cautious.The victims were identified as Mary Cooper, 56, and her daughter, Susanna Stodden, 27, both of Seattle.They were last seen alive Tuesday morning. A passer-by found their bodies a few hours later toward the end of a nearly 2-mile trail to Pinnacle Lake, about 50 miles northeast of Seattle, in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Niebusch said.Chuck Keller, 74, who manages the nearby Gold Basin campground, said the man and woman who discovered the bodies were visibly shaken."He said he saw two ladies on the trail that looked like they were going to the bathroom, then he looked at them and saw they were deceased and they left in a hurry,'' Keller said.The FBI was aiding the investigation because the killings took place in a national forest, said a spokeswoman in the bureau's Seattle office.Niebusch said investigators have received dozens of tips, but released no information about what they've learned.Cooper was a librarian at an elementary School in Seattle. Her daughter had worked for the Audubon Society in Seattle and had jobs in salmon stream enhancement and outdoor education.Cooper's husband, David Stodden, and his two other daughters, 24-year-old Elisa Stodden and 21-year-old Joanna Stodden, hiked Friday to Boardman Lake, not far from where the women were killed."It felt really important to go where we were afraid to go,'' Elisa Stodden said at a brief family news conference.AP-ES-07-15-06 0042EDT

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