A 'Jane Doe' whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River in Lincoln County, Missouri, in 1978 has been identified using more modern DNA identification.
A tugboat pushes barges down the Mississippi River at St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. A “Jane Doe” whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River in Lincoln County, Missouri, in 1978 has been identified using more modern …A “Jane Doe” whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River in Lincoln County, Missouri, in 1978 has been identified using more modern DNA identification.
The initial autopsy on her body, done in March 1978, identified Groomes as White and between 30 to 40 years old, and determined that she had drowned, the Sheriff’s Office said. In October 2023, the case was revisited, and new analysis of the bones and teeth by Southeast Missouri State University anthropologists determined that their “Jane Doe” was in fact a teenager, LCSO said.
“She is no longer Jane Doe, she’s my sister Helen Groomes. It brings up a lot of pain and a lot of joy because she was placed somewhere and people were thinking about her, because I thought about her every day. … I’m taking away some closure,” Kevin Groomes told KSDK-TV.
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