How did Pa. State Police finally ID ‘Beth Doe’ and what led them to her long-ago boyfriend?
Updated Apr 02, 2021;
While the dismembered body “Beth Doe” and that of her near full-term fetus -- which were found in December 1976 in three suitcases near the Lehigh River and an Interstate 80 overpass in the Carbon County borough of East Side -- were exhumed in 2007 to extract DNA, its placement in a missing person’s database didn’t result in any hits, Pennsylvania State Police report.
Her family never reported her missing, having received a letter in January 1977 stating she had moved to Connecticut with her boyfriend, had the baby and would contact them if she needed anything, police said in court papers.