TULALIP—The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, in coordination with the FBI Seattle Field Office and the Tulalip Police Department, announced Friday, October 31, that human skeletal remains discovered in a remote wooded area of North Snohomish County have been positively identified as those of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a 44-year-old member of the Tulalip Tribes who vanished on November 25, 2020.

Johnson-Davis was last seen walking along Fire Trail Road—also known as 140th Street—on the Tulalip Reservation after sending a text message to a friend stating she was “almost to the church” and arranging a ride to Arlington. She was reported missing by her husband on December 9, 2020.

The remains were located on June 13, 2025, in a heavily forested, off-road section near the northern boundary o

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