[5] Her body was found by blackberry pickers, and the medical examiner determined she had been dead for approximately 5 days before discovery.

[4] Roberts ran away from home aged 17 and 8 months in summer 1977, following a disagreement with her parents over a confiscated bag of marijuana.

Roberts was seen by multiple people, thumbing for a ride as she walked south along Bothell-Everett Highway near Silver Lake.

[9] Roth then dragged the body into the bushes, where he emptied 7 bullets from the clip of his .22 caliber rifle into her head, disfiguring her face.

Roberts' body was found by blackberry pickers on August 14, 1977, in brambles off the roadside in unincorporated south Everett.

Sneaker brand tennis shoes in a boy's size 7, a Timex watch with a yellow face and a leather band which she wore on her left wrist.

[10] Her pants pockets contained 17 cents, an open pack of Marlboro cigarettes, and an empty plastic bag.

On August 13, 1977, 4 days after Roberts' murder, David Roth was arrested after police received a call about a different man waving a rifle in a park outside Gold Bar.

On the way to the scene, officer Fred Vanderpool stopped Roth for a traffic violation on US route 2, whose Chevy Nova smelled of cannabis.

[12] The contents of the Chevy Nova contained clips with 59 rounds, several bags of cannabis, a bundle of peacock feathers, and a loaded .22 caliber Marlin rifle.

By the time the victim's body was discovered, with a post-mortem interval of 5 days, she had decayed significantly enough to hinder identification.

Detective John Hinds drew a composite sketch of what he thought the Jane Doe would have looked like when alive.

[3] After enough time had elapsed with no leads on identification, Jane Doe was buried at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Everett, in a pauper's lot.

[5] The victim's bones had been boiled at some point in the past, significantly damaging the DNA and making it extremely difficult to extract a complete genetic profile.

The positive identification of Roberts was announced to the public on June 25, 2020, by Dr. Matt Lacy, Snohomish County Chief Medical Examiner.

[17] The team that identified Roberts was led by Barbara Rae-Venter and her Firebird Forensic Group, using public genetic genealogy websites.

[8] After sufficient DNA had been extracted from the hair, Rae-Venter and her team turned to public genealogy websites such as Ancestry.com to search for matches that could prove a relationship, and from there lead to Jane Doe's identity.

[13] After identification, Roberts' remains were exhumed again and sent to Hood River, Oregon, for a memorial service and burial in a family plot at Pine Grove Cemetery.