The Yakama Nation police and the FBI are investigating the murder of a 44-year-old woman.
Barbara Jean Celestine died Monday after sustaining injuries a day earlier at a tribal housing project. The cause of death was determined to be a blunt trauma to the head.
Celestine was a member of the Yakama Nation.
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Wapato woman's death a homicide
(The Yakima Herald-Republic 9/8)
Death on Yakama Reservation classified as homicide
Thursday, September 8, 2005
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