DNA evaluation has helped establish a girl whose physique was discovered on the backside of a cliff within the Bay Space almost 60 years in the past, authorities mentioned.
The lady’s decomposed stays have been discovered Feb. 3, 1967, on the base of a cliff on Freeway 1, close to Jenner, about 80 miles north of San Francisco, in line with a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Workplace information launch. A number of fractures to her cranium and ribs have been decided to be the reason for demise, nevertheless it was unknown how she sustained these accidents.
Efforts to establish her have been unsuccessful. She was finally listed as Jane Doe and laid to relaxation on the County of Sonoma Cemetery shortly afterward, authorities mentioned.
DNA evaluation has helped establish a girl whose physique was discovered on the backside of a Bay Space cliff almost 60 years in the past as Lillian Marie Cardenas, who was born in 1928 and final lived in San Francisco.
(Sonoma County Sheriff’s Division)
In 2009, the girl’s physique was exhumed with the assistance of anthropology professor Mark Griffin of San Francisco State College, authorities mentioned. Her demise was then decided to be a murder.
In 2023, Othram Inc., a forensic genetic evaluation firm, analyzed her DNA and recognized her as Lillian Marie Cardenas, authorities mentioned. The investigation discovered that Cardenas was born in 1928 and final lived in San Francisco; she was estranged from her members of the family earlier than her demise.
However many questions stay. Anybody with details about Cardenas’ life or demise is inspired to contact the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Chilly Case Unit at (707) 565-2727 or e mail sheriff-coldcase@sonoma-county.org.
