A woman who drowned in Lake Michigan 25 years ago has been identified as a woman reported missing from Chicago.
said Dorothy Lynn Ricker died by an accidental drowning in 1997. Her body was found naked and on the shore in Manistee County on Oct. 27, 1997.
In 2020, after 23 years, detectives from the MSP Cadiallace Post and the MSP Missing Persons Coordination Unit reexamined the case and exhumed her remains. During that exhumation, fresh samples were taken and submitted to Astrea Forensics under the DNA Doe Project for Forensic Genetic Genealogy . A year later, a possible match was identifed and sent to MSP for vetting. The The possible connection linked the unidentified human remains to the Thyng family in Acton, Maine.
In December 2022, the woman positively identified as Ricker, who had last been seen in Wisconsin on Oct. 2, 1997.
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