Detectives have found human bones in a wooded

area off Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie in east King

County.

They have been searching the site as part of the Green River

killer investigation.

Detective Kathleen Larson says the human skeletal remains were

found today off Southeast 96th Street just east of Snoqualmie

Parkway. She says the King County medical examiner's office has

confirmed the remains are human.

Crews searched the area last month, clearing blackberry bushes,

downed trees and brush. Investigators decided to return because

standing water at the bottom of the site hampered the search on

July seventh.

Green River Task Force detectives have found bones at two sites

in the Seattle area in recent weeks: in Enumclaw and in Kent. The

remains found in Enumclaw were later identified as those of Pammy

Avent, one of 49 women believed to have died at the hands of the

Green River Killer in the early 1980s.

The bones from the Kent site have yet to be identified.

Gary Ridgway has pleaded innocent to aggravated first-degree

murder in seven of the Green River deaths.