Anne Zachariasen’s died after a suffering a fatal overdose last November, and her body was dumped in a shopping cart near the Ballard Bridge. The two suspects who dumped her body have been arrested.

On Feb. 24 Seattle Police announced that Michael Kircher, 33, and Michael Tarp, 56, had been taken into custody. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged them with “unlawful disposal of human remains” and for also not notifying the coroner of Zachariasen’s death. She had overdosed outside Kircher’s RV. Both men are scheduled to be arraigned in the next two weeks.

SPD reported that the suspects had dumped her body because they did not want to draw attention to the drug activity at their RV.

Zachariasen’s body was discovered by an employee of Mac’s Upholstery shop near the 1500 block of N.W. 46th Street on November 19th, 2015.  She was wrapped in a sheet in a shopping cart.

SPD detectives discovered surveillance footage from a nearby business that shows the two men wheeling the shopping cart with Zachariasen’s body just two hours before the discovery was made.

King County Medical Examiner determined Zachariasen suffered no injuries and that her death was caused by a combination of drugs and alcohol.

Police used Zachariasen’s cellphone of for leads and eventually discovered one of the suspects had told a witness that he had moved a body under the bridge. Police identified Michael Tarp and made contact with him at the RV on December 21. The RV was parked at N.W. 50th and 11th Avenue N.W.

Tarp admitted to finding the body and said he recruited Kircher to help move her in order to not draw attention to the drug activity at the RV.

Rex Hohlbein, Executive Director of Facing Homelessness, was a friend of Zachariasen. Last November Holhbein told the BNT that Zachariasen lived in Ballard all her life. He said that Zachariasen had struggled with homelessness and substance for a long time. According to Hohlbein, a week before her death Zachariasen received notification of permanent housing at the Nyer Urness House in Ballard. Zachariasen had a daughter and two grandchildren