A team from the Snohomish County Medical Examiners Office has reconstructed the face of a human skull that was found at a Mountlake Terrace home Jan. 14.

Medical investigator Jane Jorgensen said in an interview with MLT News that the deceased is “female, mostly likely white, Hispanic or mixed race,” between 21-65 years old, and has been dead for at least two years. NamUs, a national database of people who are missing or unidentified, states that the year of death could be as far back as 1950.

Jorgensen said that the residence on 46th Avenue West was sold in December 2024, and a construction worker who was renovating the residence found the skull in the basement in a bucket.

“Only a cranium was found, no other human remains,” Jorgensen said. “We do not know at this poin

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