Body found in vacant Bellevue apartment identified | Cause of death pending

The King County Medical Examiner's Office has released the name of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found by maintenance workers in a vacant Bellevue apartment on Saturday, but a cause of death is still pending the results of a toxicology screening.

By Brandon Macz • February 10, 2015 5:59 pm
Police are investigating a suspicious death at a vacant apartment like this one under construction at the Ridgedale Apartments
Police are investigating a suspicious death at a vacant apartment like this one under construction at the Ridgedale Apartments

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the name of a 29-year-old woman whose body was found by maintenance workers in a vacant Bellevue apartment on Saturday, but a cause of death is still pending the results of a toxicology screening.

Maintenance workers were responding to turn off water to all apartments due to reported flooding Saturday, when they found the body of Annelise Harrison around 2 p.m. Many apartment buildings are under construction at Ridgedale on the 600 block of 141st Court Southeast.

Bellevue Police Det. Amanda Jensen said the department will meet with the medical examiners who autopsied Harrison to determine what, if any, new information will be released. Harrison was found by maintenance, who had not been to that construction area for at least three weeks, and no identification was found on or near the woman’s body. According to the medical examiner’s office, Harrison died on Wednesday, Feb. 4, three days before her body was found.