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Friday, July 14, 2006 · Last updated 4:10 p.m. PT
Police: Mother and daughter were shot on hiking trail
Few other details released at news conference
EVERETT -- A mother and daughter slain this week while hiking a popular trail in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest were shot, a Snohomish County Sheriff's spokesman said Thursday.
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| Mary Cooper, right, and Susanna Stodden were found dead on a trail off the Mountain Loop Highway. | ||
Deputy Rich Niebusch provided few other details about the killings of Mary Cooper, 56, a librarian at Decatur AEII Elementary School, and her daughter, Susanna Cooper Stodden, 27, both of Seattle. They were killed while hiking on the Pinnacle Lake Trail, about 20 miles east of Granite Falls.
Neibusch said authorities had closed the rural Pinnacle Lake Road as part of the investigation. He also said police had ruled out murder-suicide.
The trail where the women was killed is one of four in the popular Mount Pilchuck area, about six miles from the Mountain Loop Highway. The women had planned to go for a day hike, authorities and friends of the family said.
Authorities say the proximity of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie forest to the growing Seattle area seems to correlate with an increase in forest visitors and, perhaps, with the rate of crime.
About 5.4 million people visited the forest in 2004, making it the fourth-most-visited site in the National Forest System. The number of visitors increased nearly 15 percent from 2000.
National forest and park rangers handle the majority of incidents in their jurisdictions but have cooperative agreements with local law enforcement agencies, sometimes for routine coverage but especially for violent crimes.
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