A teenage girl killed in September 1976 has finally found her true identity, after having nicknamed “Woodlawn Jane Doe” for decades.
She has been known by the nickname “Woodlawn Jane Doe” for decades. On Wednesday, US Baltimore County Police said they were able to name the girl who was killed in 1976. On September 12 of that year, a body was found near a cemetery in Woodlawn. The first elements of the investigation had revealed that the victim had been tied up, beaten and strangled, reports WTOP. “Chlorpromazine was found in his system, which may have been used to put him to sleep. The victim was also brutally raped, ”the authorities noted. For more than 40 years, investigators have tried to put an identity on this corpse. Sketches had been made at the time, without giving any results. Authorities were hoping for a rebound in 2006, when sperm was identified and sent to a laboratory for analysis. But again, the results had given nothing.
Faced with this wall of mystery, the case was presented on the show America’s Most Wanted, in order to find a potential suspect. Scientific research also made it possible, in 2015, to carry out tests on the pollen found in the body of the victim, in order to possibly locate the place where it could come from. It was then revealed that she may have lived in Boston. A year later, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children carried out a new reconstruction of her face by computer-generated image, in order to launch a new call for witnesses.
Despite all the efforts of the police, it was not until this year that the investigation finally yielded results, thanks, once again, to genetic genealogy, which has recently enabled many criminal cases to be resolved. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children worked with forensic research labs to reconstruct the victim’s genealogical profile from degraded DNA recovered from the corpse. Once this profile was completed, the genealogists began their investigation in order to find the identity of the victim. It was 16-year-old Margaret Fetterolf, who went missing in 1975. “With knowledge of Margaret’s identity, detectives are now going one step further to catch those responsible for her murder,” police said. from Baltimore County in a press release.
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