Cold Case Cracked: Jane Doe Identified as Missing Woman

0:00A 40-year-old cold case just cracked wide open thanks to cutting-edge DNA tech. The Toria Jean Hargrove, a 29-year-old who vanished from her home in Opalika, Alabama, back on January 28, 1980, turned. Out to be the Jane Doe pulled from a ravine of Highway 74 in Riverside County, California, just three weeks later. Back then, Sheriff's deputies noted her hazel eyes, light brown hair, and a scar on her right arm, but no ID stuck, despite a solid investigation. The case hit name used as unidentified person, number 7139, and gathered dust for decades. Fast forward, and the Riverside County cold case team teamed up with Offerham's forensic lab, feeding them old evidence to build a DNA profile that finally matched Hargrove's family. Now she's identified, but the story's far from over. Nobody knows how she crossed the country or what went down during her disappearance. If you've got consumer DNA results, upload them to DNA souls to help crack more like this, just as it keeps building one match at a time.

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