Deputies Need Help Identifying 1990s Homicide Victim
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Deputies say two young boys discovered this woman

Deputies say two young boys discovered this woman’s skeletal remains in 1993. Now authorities have tracked down the victim’s relatives through genetic genealogy, but investigators have still yet to determine her identity. (Image: Flagler County Sheriff’s Office)

Deputies are one step away from identifying a cold case homicide victim, but are having some trouble. They’ve tracked down dozens of the victim’s relatives through DNA testing, but the name of a woman found slain almost 20 years ago remains a mystery. Authorities voiced hope, however, that they can solve the case with the help of a new image approximating her likeness, and even with the help of a genealogist relative.

According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, two young boys were playing basketball on Jan. 10, 1993 at the end of their cul-de-sac on Sea Ship Place.

“Their basketball went into the woods and when they went to retrieve their basketball, they found skeletal remains under some brush,” deputies wrote.

Investigators with the sheriff’s office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found partial skeletal remains and what authorities simply described as “other items of evidence.”

Forensic anthropologists from the University of Florida and the medical examiner’s office determined the woman had been dead for approximately two to three years.

It was years later in 2021 that the DNA lab company Othram Inc managed to develop her DNA profile. Though forensic anthropologists in the 1990s originally had her as white, possibly Indian, this reevaluation determined she was African American, “possibly mixed with Caucasian.”

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