DNA and forensic genealogy were used to identify a 20-year-old Jane Doe 33 years after she was murdered and dumped on the side of a highway in North Carolina.
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The body of Lisa Coburn Kesler, 20, of Jacksonville, Georgia, was found along the side of I-40 East near New Hope Church Road exit in September 1990.The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created this representation of Jane Doe before she was identified as Lisa Coburn Kesler.techniques to a model of her skull and generated a digital illustration of her face that was circulated on social media, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
"Essentially, there was a Lisa-shaped hole on a branch of the family tree right where the DNA told us Lisa should be, and no one knew where she was," Hendricks said.
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