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Dakota Tyree Walker

Case from Olympia, WA dated Oct 20, 2016

Victim Details

Dakota Tyree Walker

Male

Olympia

WA

2016-10-20

18

Dakota

Tyree Walker

07/15/2026

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In the fall of 2016, the life of 18-year-old Dakota Tyree Walker was tragically cut short in what investigators would come to describe as an "execution-style" murder. On October 20, 2016, a woman walking her dog in the remote Capitol Forest, about 10 miles southwest of Olympia, Washington, made a grim discovery near the entrance of the Margaret McKenny Campground. The body of a young man, later identified through fingerprints as Dakota Tyree Walker, was found to have been left there. An autopsy ...
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  • Q13 FOX News: Man found slain in Capital Forest identified as 18-year-old from L.A.
  • KOMO: Young man found shot to death in Capital Forest
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