DC Police Identify Remains At Apartment Building In Southeast

WASHINGTON, DC -- Police have determined the identities of skeletal remains discovered at an apartment building in Southeast earlier this year -- and they all belong to women who have been missing for more than a decade, according to a report.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the FBI performed a DNA analysis and determined that the bodies belong to 48-year-old Jewel King, 41-year-old Verdell Jefferson, and 43-year-old Dorothy Butts, who were all last seen in 2006, according to a D.C. police statement.

King lived in Southwest, was last seen on April 7, 2006, and was reported missing six days later; Jefferson lived a block from where her remains were found on Wayne Place, and she was last seen May 1 and reported missing Aug. 1 of 2006; and Butts lived on Martin Luther King Avenue on Southeast and was last seen Christmas Day. All had children.

Construction workers found the remains April 25 in a crawl space of the building, which is in the 100 block of Wayne Place SE.

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham believes they were killed all at once with either blunt force trauma or gunshot wounds, according to a WTOP report.

Police are now looking for suspects in the case. They are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.

Pictured: King, Jefferson, and Butts, respectively -- via D.C. police