Authorities have identified remains that washed ashore in Port Angeles in December of 2021. A foot inside of a shoe washed up near the mouth of the Elwha River and belonged to a resident of Sequim, Jerilyn Smith, who was reported missing on Jan. 7, 2018. She was 68 years old at the time of her disappearance, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office (CCSO). Due to the limited recovery of the woman's remains, CCSO worked with Othram, a private company that specializes in testing trace amounts, degraded or contaminated DNA. "If you have, you know, a small piece of the skeleton, like a foot, for example, like, what what can you do with that?" asked David Mittelton, the CEO of Othram. "And then once we built it, the genealogy took a little time but we got through it. The investigators, we have to give them credit, too, because all we do is generate a lead but then we pass to the investigators," Mittelton said. READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/remains-washed-ashore-port-angeles-identified-missing-sequim-woman/281-7be56008-9dac-4acb-a6ce-82009fcef350