PORT ANGELES – Detectives from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office came up empty-handed Monday after digging two large holes and sifting through hundreds of square feet of dirt in search for clues into a girl’s 1981 disappearance.
They dug in a wooded area in west Port Angeles hoping for a break in the cold case of missing Carla Owens.
Now the last lead in the case of Owens’ disappearance 26 years ago rests on DNA evidence awaiting testing at a Texas lab.
The last night anyone saw Owens, 14 years old at the time, was when she took a baby-sitting job in Clearwater, 10 miles from her home near Olympic National Park’s Kalaloch Lodge on the Pacific coast.
A broken bottle of Galliano liqueur with blood on it was found at the house where Owens baby-sat.
