Volunteers search the area along the Tenino to Yelm bicycle trail adjacent to state Route 507 near Churchill Road Southeast on Tuesday where the sheriff's office thinks Vanda Boone was attacked.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
TENINO – The woman whose body was found in the passenger compartment of a Tenino man’s pickup truck Sunday night has been identified as Vanda Skau Boone, a 60-year-old who moved to Yelm from New York this past March.
Vanda Skau Boone, from her MySpace
She died because her throat was cut and from blunt force injuries to her head and neck, according to the Thurston County Coroner.
The manner of death is homicide, Coroner Gary Warnock said this afternoon.
It’s a sad story, according to Warnock.
“On her way moving out here, her moving van caught fire and she lost everything,” Warnock said. “She has no family. Her only brother died a month ago in Brazil.”
Warnock said he concluded she died on Sunday, not so long before law enforcement officers pulled over the truck, because she was still warm.
Significant other conditions that contributed to her death were probable asphyxia due to strangulation or smothering, the coroner said.
About 30 volunteers from search and rescue groups in Thurston and Pierce counties scoured the area on the Tenino to Yelm bicycle trail today where the sheriff’s office thinks she was attacked on Sunday.
Thurston County sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said they found a pair of shoes they think belong to the victim.
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Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
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