Body Of Missing Mother Found In Woods

TACOMA - The body of Nicole White, 28, was found over the weekend in the woods near Kapowsin.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said White’s body was found over the weekend near Timberline Forest Camp 1 Road East on Saturday. Search dogs lead investigators to the woods, and her body was found wrapped in a tarp.

Sheriff’s department detectives believe the body was intentionally hidden, deputies said. Her cause of death was not immediately known.

White, a mother of two boys, was last seen earlier this month after meeting up at Jeepers bar in Spanaway with a man she met on an online dating service.  She was reported missing a day later by her mother.

“Sunday morning, (she) didn’t show up for work, didn’t come to get her boys, which is very unlike her, she would either call if she was going to be late, text, something,” said her cousin Dana Johnson.

White’s red Dodge Neon was spotted over a ravine in the 26000 block of 70th Avenue East near Graham. Search dogs on the scene led detectives to a nearby pond. However, no sign of White was found until this weekend.

A man who was on a date with White the night she was last seen is a person of interest in her disappearance, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said. He is in jail on an unrelated weapons charge.

Pierce County Sheriff’s Department Det. Ed Troyer said he believes deputies will present a case to prosecutors sometime this week involving the man.

This story is breaking and will be updated as more information becomes available.