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Montana Cold Case: Womanâs remains identified after 36 years
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By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-05-10 14:44:42-04
MISSOULA â An announcement has been made in a Montana cold case investigation that goes back 36 years.
The Missoula County Sheriffâs Office announced Monday that âit is with both great pride and sadnessâ that a name has been given to the unidentified remains previously known as âChristy Crystal Creekâ.â
Her name is Janet Lee Lucas. The skeletal remains of the 23-year-old woman from Spokane were found by a bear hunter near Crystal Creek on Sept. 9, 1985. The remains were not able to be identified when they were discovered.
Cold Case: Womanâs remains identified in Missoula County after 36 years
The Missoula County Sheriffâs Office announced Monday that the human remains previously known as âChristy Crystal Creekâ have been identified as Janet Lee Lucas.
By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-05-11 10:41:13-04
MISSOULA â The Missoula County Sheriffâs Office announced Monday that the human remains previously known as âChristy Crystal Creekâ have been identified as Janet Lee Lucas.
The skeletal remains of the 23-year-old woman from Spokane were found by a bear hunter near Crystal Creek on September 9, 1985. The remains were not able to be identified when they were discovered. âDespite decades of work with forensic anthropologists and a forensic odontologist, and hours of research scouring missing persons databases here and in Canada, her identity remained a mystery,â the news release