For 43 years, the identity of a woman whose partially decomposed body washed ashore on Lake Erie was unknown. Now, more than four decades later, the woman wearing a 'disco style' dress was finally identified.
For 43 years, the identity of a woman whose partially decomposed body washed ashore on Lake Erie was unknown.
And then on March 30, the exact day her body was discovered more than four decades earlier, the woman wearing a"disco style" dress was finally identified. Her name was Patricia Greenwood, said the City of Sandusky Police Department. The cold case had haunted the Sandusky, Ohio, police department until technology advanced enough to extract DNA from the body's skeletal remains and build a familial tree to trace the identity of the woman.
Porchlight Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding DNA testing for Ohio cold cases offered to fund the necessary testing, the
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