Anyone who’s into true crime has noticed the continuing parade of cold cases recently solved thanks to genetic genealogy. Although the most noteworthy case is the arrest of the alleged Golden State Killer, genetic genealogy has closed a series of unidentified decedent cases. So many of these cases can be solved by a one-two punch of broadened publicity and DNA. To facilitate the first part of that equation, today I’m bringing you four Jane Does that I believe could easily be identified.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Officers are investigating a suspicious death after workers renovating a vacant home in North Highlands discovered an entire human skeleton buried in the backyard on December 26.
On the morning of May 20, 1981, 21-year-old Dale Eugene Kelley departed his home in Carmichael, California in his orange 1976 Toyota Celica. He planned make the six-and-a-half hour drive to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend, but he never made it there. Two weeks later, his car turned up abandoned in in New Orleans, but he was nowhere to be found. What happened to Dale Kelley?