DNA testing has led members of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Homicide Unit to finally identify the body of a woman who was found dead in California in 1986.
DNA testing has led members of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Homicide Unit to finally identify the body of a woman who was found dead in California in 1986. Now officials say they have a"brand new mystery" to find out who killed her.
While Powers' body has been identified, her killer remains at large, the sheriff's office said. In the news release, they asked members of the public with any information to come forward and said that detectives had been working the case for the decades since Powers' body was found. that detectives are now putting together a timeline of Powers' life before her death to try to identify her killer.
In Powers' case, DNA information was taken from a sample of her hair and compared to available profiles on the commercial sites. Using this, as well as census records and other public information, detectives were able to build family trees and"track down an indiviudal believed to be a relative of Claudette." Detectives spoke with that relative, and were eventually connected with Powers' daughters, sister and mother.
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