Forty-six years after a Missouri hunter found a body in the Mississippi River, the victim has been identified as a 15-year-old girl from Iowa
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An autopsy performed at the time determined the body was likely that of a woman age 30 to 40. Investigators had little to go on except a cat's eye ring on a finger and a tattoo with a hard-to-read name on her left arm. The manner of death was classified as “undetermined.” Coroners believed she had been dead for about four months before the body was found.
Coroner Dan Heavin had the body exhumed in October and turned to anthropology students and faculty at Southeast Missouri State University, a news release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said. Bone and dental analysis was performed, and samples of DNA were submitted to a private lab for forensic genome sequencing.
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