the unmarked grave here in the Blendon Township cemetery is covered once again, the remains of the person cold case detectives have named Jenny, now being examined by anthropologists with Michigan State University. They hope to extract DNA from those remains to answer at least part of the mystery. Who is she? It took a volunteer excavation crew about 10 minutes to open up the grave of the young woman found by hunters in a wooded area near 52nd and Fillmore in October of 1967. This is a computer generated image of what Jenny may have looked like before her death. She died from blunt force trauma to the head and strangulation. She was young, estimated to be between 16 and 22 years old. Ex Imation’s are rare occurrence. Cold Case team had to obtain a court order to do it to figure out who the victim is the key toe. Further, this homicide investigation is very difficult to to investigate a homicide when you really don’t know who the victim is. So that’s first and foremost to identify and and I think the technology exists today to at least have a really good shot
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The body of a murder victim who has remained unidentiified for 53 years is being exhumed
Updated: 8:22 PM EDT Jul 29, 2020
Authorities in Michigan are hoping to put an end to a decades-long mystery of a woman whose body was found in 1967.The young Black woman, who was found beaten and strangled in Michigan 53 years ago, was never identified, WOOD-TV reported. Neither was her perpetrator.Now, authorities with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department are exhuming her body from an unmarked grave with the hopes of finding a DNA link that could finally identify her.”To figure out who the victim is the key to further this homicide investigation,” Capt. Mark Bennett, of the sheriff’s department, told the TV station. “It’s very difficult to investigate a homicide when you really don’t know who your victim is, so that’s first and foremost, to identify. And I think the technology exists today to at least have a real good shot.”The woman, who cold case detectives have named Jenny, was estimated to be between 16 and 22 years old at the time of her death.Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
Authorities in Michigan are hoping to put an end to a decades-long mystery of a woman whose body was found in 1967.
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The young Black woman, who was found beaten and strangled in Michigan 53 years ago, was never identified, WOOD-TV reported. Neither was her perpetrator.
Now, authorities with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department are exhuming her body from an unmarked grave with the hopes of finding a DNA link that could finally identify her.
“To figure out who the victim is the key to further this homicide investigation,” Capt. Mark Bennett, of the sheriff’s department, told the TV station. “It’s very difficult to investigate a homicide when you really don’t know who your victim is, so that’s first and foremost, to identify. And I think the technology exists today to at least have a real good shot.”
The woman, who cold case detectives have named Jenny, was estimated to be between 16 and 22 years old at the time of her death.
Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
