Remains found in 1987 identified as Christine Lester, Navajo woman who had 'explicit' letter sent to her

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Remains found in 1987 identified as Christine Lester, Navajo woman who had 'explicit' letter sent to her
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Human remains that had been buried for decades in a California gravesite and marked as 'Jane Doe' have been identified as Christine Lester, a Navajo woman who went missing from northern Arizona, authorities say.

Officials with the sheriff's office near Fresno said a woman was found dead on the side of a rural county road in 1987 but couldn't identify her at the time. The body was exhumed in 2020 to create a DNA profile that authorities were able to match to one Lester's siblings earlier this year.

The then-24-year-old Lester told her family that she was planning to hitchhike - a common practice on the Navajo Nation - from Indian Wells to the Flagstaff mall in May 1987 to buy gifts for Mother's Day. They don't know if she made it there, her siblings said.

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