Murdered Woman Identified 52 Years Later After Sheriff’s Office Crowdfunds for DNA Test

For a really long time, specialists pondered the personality of a lady whose body was found inside a material sack in the Arizona desert. Three days prior, they at last found a solution.

The Unique Examination Unit at the Mohave District Sheriff’s Office utilized current innovation to distinguish far off family members of Colleen Rice, a 40-year-elderly person who experienced childhood in Portsmouth, Ohio, authorities expressed on its Facebook page.

And keeping in mind that that is an immense solution for a 52-year-old examination, there are as yet a lot more inquiries to settle.

Rice’s body was found on Jan. 23, 1971, close to a back road around 2 miles east of U.S. Roadway 93. Her body was inside a sack that was tied at the top with white cotton rope, authorities said.

She was around 5’4″ and weighed around 130 lbs. She was wearing a size 14 colorful long sleeve shirt, a dark, long sleeve sweatshirt sweater, and consumed orange stretch jeans with a tab inside that read: Orchestra, it’s what’s going on. She wore a couple of dark cowhide, lower leg high boots and bobby socks. She had no adornments on her body.

For a really long time, this was all that authorities realized about the lady previously known as Jane Doe.

In 2022, the sheriff’s office banded together with Othram Inc. to test her DNA. The office paid $1000 and requested that the public asset the excess $6,500.

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“The expectation was that the local area would open its heart and help to at long last give her a name,” the office expressed in its delivery. The case was subsidized in five days.

On Jan. 23, following 52 years of being obscure, she was given a name and a few insights concerning her life were uncovered. Rice was born on Walk 17, 1931.

She was hitched to William Davis in Ohio. It’s obscure whether she had any youngsters, yet authorities gained she was alienated from her loved ones.

“The examination is progressing into the suspect and additionally thinks answerable for her demise,” authorities expressed.

“The MCSO keeps on looking for the public’s help with giving any data they might have on the later long periods of the casualty’s life.”

Anybody with data ought to consider Mohave Region Sheriff’s Office SIU at 928-753-0753 ext. 4408 or call the complementary number at 1-800-522-4312 and reference DR# 71-0383.