MISSOULA, Mont. - The Missoula County Sheriff s Office Monday has identified the remains of a woman found nearly 36 years ago near Crystal Creek.Â
MCSO has identified the woman, formally identified as Christy Crystal Creek, as Janet Lee Lucas, 23, of Spokane.
According to a release from MCSO, a bear hunter found her remains near Crystal Creek in September 1985. Her remains could not be identified after an in-depth investigation and were called Christy Crystal Creek up until Monday.
The Missoula County Cold Case Unit paired up with Othram labs to do do a DNA analysis with funding from m Montana Department of Justiceâs Sexual Assault Kit Initiative program in early 2021.
Montana cold case victim identified as Spokane woman 36 years after remains discovered Megan Carroll
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Thirty-six years after a woman s remains were found in Missoula County, Montana, authorities have identified her as 23-year-old Janet Lee Lucas from Spokane.
A bear hunter came across the skeletal remains of Lucas near Crystal Creek in Montana on Sept. 9, 1985, according to the Missoula County Sheriff s Office. Following an investigation, her remains could not be identified and she became known as Christy Crystal Creek. Despite decades of forensics work and hours of scouring missing persons databases in Canada and the United States, her identity remained a mystery to authorities for more than three decades.
Genetic testing offers hope for solving 05 Hartford killing
May 9, 2021
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Authorities are hoping to solve a 16-year-old Hartford cold case murder by using new genetic genealogy testing made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Edward Bell was shot multiple times on the night of May 6, 2005 and died at a hospital. A $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for killing the 34-year-old father of three has remained unclaimed.
The case remains under investigation, but received a boost recently when the state applied for and received a three-year, $470,000 grant from the Justice Department, to be split between Hartford police, the state forensic lab and the Cold Case Unit and the Chief State’s Attorney’s Cold Case Unit, the New Haven Register reported.
40 years later: Oakland County investigators hope to solve murder of Anne Doroghazi
Anne Doroghazi’s murder is still being investigated
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MILFORD, Mich. – Investigators are hoping advancements in technology can help solve a murder from 40 years ago.
Anne Doroghazi was a worker at Camp Dearborn. She was 20 years old when her body was found on the side of the road. She had been strangled.
The Cold Case Unit at the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the murder.
Camp Dearborn, a 600-acre recreational retreat in Milford, is a place where many families spent their summers.
Anne Doroghazi’s brother, Bill Doroghazi, was a camp counselor in the youth camp in the 80s. He said what happened to his sister when she worked at the camp still haunts him.