6 Years Later, Informer Tells Police About Slaying

EVERETT - Thirty-three years ago, Bernice Selby vanished. She was never seen again.

The case was closed long ago. But two months ago, a man came forward who said he knows what really happened to the 28-year-old woman: She was slain by her husband, and her body was buried under a road in Everett.

That information was enough to send Snohomish County and Everett investigators to the 6300 block of 97th Drive Northeast last week. The probe was made public Monday.

Officials used a backhoe to dig up the road. They found nothing, but authorities now think Selby was slain.

Selby, who lived on the shore of Lake Cassidy east of Marysville, was reported missing Dec. 18, 1962, by her sister, Sylvia Smith.

Selby's husband became a person of interest, but was never charged. If Donald Selby was a killer, he carried his secret to his grave. He died as a result of the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980.