Phone Was Manually Set to Delete Former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Texts, Forensic Analysis Indicates

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, right, is given a tour of a room at Executive Hotel Pacific by Sharon Lee, executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute, on March 23, 2021. Amanda Snyder/The Seattle Times/TNS

By Daniel Beekman and Lewis Kamb From The Seattle Times

SEATTLE—Former Seattle  Jenny Durkan’s text messages from one of the most tumultuous periods in city history vanished because a phone setting likely was manually changed to deletMayore texts automatically, and ex-Police Chief Carmen Best deleted her texts, a long-overdue forensic analysis has found.