Author Topic: MISS X: WF, 16-25, found in laundry bag on Porter Road near Bear, DE - March 1967  (Read 201 times)

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http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/04/delaware_officials_look_to_tre.html


Delaware officials look to Trenton in attempt to solve 1967 cold case
April 10, 2013

Authorities may be closer than ever to finally closing this cold case thanks to DNA technology — and an unusual clue that leads directly to the Trenton area.
Brown, who reopened the case two and a half years ago, and his office are seeking help from the greater Trenton area, hoping someone can give them a more direct link between the deceased woman
and the laundry that can lead to a name for her. They’re focusing much of their attention on Trenton’s senior citizen population: if she were alive, Jane Doe would be in her mid-60s at least.
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In late 2011, Brown’s search for additional evidence was rewarded, when the box was taken out of an evidence room and he found it had a vial of the woman’s blood inside it.
“Well, I was extremely excited because to me this represented the possibility of developing a DNA profile,” he said.

Though the blood had dried, Brown was able to take cells from it and found success in recovering DNA. By matching the information with genealogy websites, some of which were complete with genetic
profiles put up by people seeking lost relatives, the medical examiner was able to contact relatives in Virginia and North Carolina on the mother’s side of Jane Doe’s family.

“They don’t know how they’re related, but they’re related biologically,” Brown said.
So far, the family members have been no help in securing an ID.