Remains discovered on Joerk Road in Randle finally ID’d as missing local woman

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Skeletal remains found in Randle last year have been positively identified as a woman who disappeared from her Randle home about a mile and a half away several months before.

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Trisha McKenzie-Fire

The Lewis County Coroner’s Office said this morning they are those of 58-year-old Trisha McKenzie-Fire.

The determination was made through a joint effort by a forensic anthropologist in King County and a local dentist who specializes in making identification through teeth, according to Coroner Warren McLeod.

McKenzie-Fire was reported missing by her live-in boyfriend in April 2011. Kent Anderson said he woke up one morning and she was gone from their home on Silverbrook Road, although she left her purse behind. Human remains were found the following September in a field on Joerk Road in Randle.

The cause and manner of her death remain under investigation, according to McLeod.

Anderson has since died. McLeod said all efforts to locate and notify McKenzie-Fire’s next-of-kin have been unsuccessful
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For background, read: “Breaking news: Human remains found in Randle” from Monday Sept. 26,  2011, here

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One Response to “Remains discovered on Joerk Road in Randle finally ID’d as missing local woman”

  1. Kudos... says:
    Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    To Coroner McLeod for not letting this slip through the cracks. The previous coroner would have just shrugged his shoulders and put the ashes on the shelf. Good job Warren.