Law enforcement officials in Arizona are finally able to identify a woman found dead in a canvas sack in 1971 after community members rallied to help fund crucial DNA testing.
The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was notified on Jan. 23, 1971, of remains found in a desert area close to U.S. Highway 93 on Hackberry Road. The body was in a white cotton canvas sack with the words"Deer-Pak Ames Harris Neville Co." printed on it in green, authorities said Tuesday onInvestigators at the time were not able to identify the woman. It was not until Monday — 52 years after her death — that the sheriff's office was able to figure out her name: Colleen Audrey Rice.
Last year, authorities started working with the forensic genealogy company Othram Inc."to determine if advanced DNA testing and Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing could help give insight into the identity of this woman and the circumstances surrounding her untimely death," the sheriff's office said.
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