DNA experts have identified the remains of a woman found shot to death in an Illinois ditch almost 50 years ago. The DNA Doe Project said in a news release Thursday that their investigators had identified the woman as JoAnn “Vickie” Smith of Ohio. Smith was found in a ditch near Seneca, Illinois, in 1976. She had been shot in the head.
MORRIS, Ill. — DNA experts have identified the remains of a woman found shot to death in an Illinois ditch almost 50 years ago.
Smith was found in a ditch near Seneca, Illinois, in 1976. She had been shot in the head. But police couldn’t identify her and closed her case after two months. The coroner’s office reached out to the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit organization that works to identify unknown subjects.
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