Jerilyn L. Smith, 68, was identified from the human foot that was found in a New Balance shoe near the mouth of the Elwha River in Port Angeles, Washington, in 2021.
A human foot found inside a shoe that washed ashore near the mouth of a river inin 2021 belonged to a 68-year-old woman who vanished three years earlier, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators pursued various leads, but the woman’s identity remained a mystery until the sheriff’s office partnered with Othram Labs in Woodlands, Texas, in 2022. After analyzing the human foot, the lab gave detectives a list of potential family members to confirm the woman’s identity through DNA. The surviving family members sent samples to the lab, which confirmed the remains belonged to Smith.
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