By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The sheriff’s office is investigating what it calls a suspicious death of a woman on a Forest Service Road near Morton.
Deputies were called about 1:30 a.m. by a resident on the 5900 block of state Route 508 who said a man came to her house to report he and his fiancee had been in a collision on Forest Service Road 73 and she was not breathing, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
Aid and deputies arriving to the scene a couple of miles away found the 48-year-old Chehalis woman dead, according to the sheriff’s office.
Forest Service Road 73 begins at state Route 508 about two miles west of Morton.
The 32-year-old Randle man is being questioned, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said in a news release. He stated the couple had been “jumped” and the wreck happened when they were trying to get away, according to Brown.
The sheriff’s office is looking for a Kelso man they think might have information related to the investigation, according to Brown. He is 39-year-old Roger Etter.
Brown declined to say what detectives think Etter might know about the case, but is asking anyone with information on his whereabouts to call the sheriff’s office or Crime Stoppers.
An autopsy will be scheduled for the victim, according to the sheriff’s office.
[1]Roger Etter