Sheriff's office recovers body of Monroe woman from Youngs Creek

The body of Jazmine Weitlauf was recovered from the waterways around Cedar Ponds on Saturday, more than a week after she fell over the falls there on April 12.

The 22-year-old Monroe woman had been with friends when she fell over the falls, and a large search had been conducted that night and the following Friday at the recreational area south of U.S. Highway 2 off Dagger Lake Road, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

Responders ended up suspending the search that weekend due to rising water levels, with plans to resume recovery efforts when waters had receded.

The sheriff’s office reports volunteers, deputies and Weitlauf’s friends and families were searching the waterways on Saturday, April 21, when they found her body stuck in a debris pile of logs and branches around noon.

Sheriff’s spokesperson Shari Ireton tells the Monitor that Weitlauf was found about 60 meters downstream from where she is believed to have fallen, along Youngs Creek.

“The challenge is this time of year there’s a lot of water, a lot of volume, a lot of pressure,” Ireton said. “It took about four hours to get her out of the water and then another four hours up the county.”

Ireton said search and rescue volunteers did spot checks in the area last week, and had searched the area where Weitlauf was located before, but it had previously been running too deep and fast.

“So it’s most likely she had been in that area the whole time,” she said.

Weitlauf’s body was turned over to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office for an official identification and determination of cause and manner of death, but, said Ireton, “We have no reason to believe it’s somebody else.”