MUS-2026-0409
Archive card
MUS-2026-0409
Homicide
- Incident
- 2009
- Indexed
- Oct 22, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Office
- Location
- McCleary WA
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Ten-year-old Lindsey Baum vanished on June 26, 2009, while walking home from a friend's house in McCleary; her partial remains were found by hunters in 2017 nearly three hours away near Ellensburg and identified by FBI DNA testing in 2018. Several persons of interest were investigated over the years, but no arrests were ever made.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- 2009
Lindsey Baum, 10, vanishes on June 26 while walking home from a friend's house in McCleary.
- 2017
Hunters find her partial remains near Ellensburg, nearly three hours from McCleary.
- 2018
The remains are identified by FBI DNA testing.
- 2026
Several persons of interest were investigated over the years, but no arrests were ever made.
Key people
The people in the file.
10, of McCleary, Washington. Vanished on June 26, 2009, while walking home from a friend's house; her partial remains were found near Ellensburg in 2017 and identified by FBI DNA testing in 2018.
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Investigating agency
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