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The body of a seven-year-old . . . discovered by a nine-year-old

“We were looking for blackberries,” the little girl later told police. “We knew there were lots of blackberries down that trail because we had picked them before. It was about seven o’clock when we decided to go play at the forest. People dump all sorts of stuff there—leaves and things. We were walking and my friend saw a skate. At least she thought she saw one, but we didn’t know for sure. We walked down further and that’s when we saw it.”

“We were walking side by side,” the other little girl confirmed. “We went around to the other side of the bushes, but we couldn’t find the skate. On the way back up the trail, I saw a human foot. It was under some grass clippings. It looked like a kid’s foot. I screamed, and the other kids came running over.”

From his pickup truck, Wesley Coulter heard the screams and saw the two crying girls. “On every other telephone pole in all of Everett, there was a poster of Roxanne Doll. I just had a feeling, so I grabbed my phone and went down to where the kids had been playing. I saw some little toes sticking up out of the grass. I looked at them and I didn’t believe they were real.”

Coulter grabbed a tree limb and prodded the foot to see if it was indeed real, or that of a doll. It was real. “I was filled with anger when I touched the toes. Then I knew for certain that Roxanne had died.”