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PULASKI COUNTY - After exactly 40 years of investigation, the Pulaski County Sheriff s Department, with help from the DNA Doe Project, have been to identify the body of Karen Kay Knippers.
Knippers was the victim of a homicide and her body was found on May 25, 1981 in a low water crossing near Dixon, Missouri.Â
At the time she was found, her body was unable to be identified. She was buried in the Waynesville Cemetery under the name Jane Doe.
In 2012, Knippers profile was entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. After she was entered in the system, DJ Renno, a detective with the Pulaski County Sheriff s Department, reopened the investigation.