Florida authorities have identified the remains of Mary Alice Pultz, a woman who was last seen by her family in 1968. Her skull was found at a St. Johns County beach in 1985.
A Florida sheriff's office recently announced that it has identified the victim in a homicide case, nearly four decades after the investigation went cold. St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said in a May 8 press release that human remains were found in a shallow grave on Crescent Beach in April 1985. Crescent Beach is located around 50 miles south of Jacksonville.
The Othram team was able to develop a DNA extract and build a DNA profile for the victim,' the sheriff's office's statement explained. 'The profile was submitted to consumer genealogy databases where users have submitted their DNA and provided consent for comparison searches. This search resulted in possible relatives of the victim.' Pultz was born in 1943 and raised in Maryland. She was last seen by family in 1968 after leaving with her boyfriend, John Thomas Fugitt.
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