McKendrick-Mendez’s family was in Seattle this week, sharing her photo and information on Broadway (Image: CHS)

Seattle Police are making a louder call for help in the investigation of the murder of Necia McKendrick-Mendez and are expanding the timeframe in which she was killed and her body left in Interlaken Park between Capitol Hill and Montlake.

SPD now says detectives have determined McKendrick-Mendez was last seen April 30th — a month before her body was found in a small stream below Interlaken Park by a Montlake homeowner who called 911.

CHS reported here on the Texas family’s search for answers in the killing of the 45-year-old artist known as “Queen” or “Q,” an artist living a new adventure in Seattle, a city she had visited on and off through the years and had settled into again. “She really was working towards something. She finally felt free to do the things that were in her,” sister Anne Wolfe-Andersen told CHS. “It really looks like she was just getting started.”

Q had said told family was selling her art on the street on Broadway near Dick’s Drive-in. The past week, her sisters and grown daughter were in Seattle, helping to spread information about McKendrick-Mendez at Broadway businesses and connecting with the communities of people living on and around the busy core of Capitol Hill. Some like busker Wesley who knew her, gathered Tuesday in Cal Anderson Park to sing and remember their friend.

The family’s efforts have brought new, nationwide attention to the case with reports on People.com and from Inside Edition.

Investigators determined McKendrick died of “multiple blunt force injuries” around May 23rd but police now believe she could have been missing since late April. Police say McKendrick-Mendez’s body had been in the wooded area of Interlaken an “undetermined amount of time” before she was found.

If you have information that will help, please call SPD’s Violent Crimes tip line at (206) 233-5000.

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