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Cutting edge forensic technology helped identify a skeleton found nearly 32 years ago in a field in Anaheim, California as 20 year-old Tracey Hobson. She was killed by two stabs to her torso, before her hands were removed.

The 20-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in August 1987.

For more than 31 years, the homicide victim had been just a number – one of the nearly 100 Jane and John Does in Orange County that investigators in the Coroner Division of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department had worked tirelessly to identify. Now, the young woman with a chipped front tooth and feathered, shoulder-length hairRead More

The Orange County Sheriff's Department has identified a Jane Doe homicide victim whose remains were discovered more than 31 years ago.

Thirty-one years ago, a young Anaheim resident went missing. This week, Orange County Sheriff's Department positively identified her remains

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California homicide victim who was a Jane Doe for more than 31 years ago has finally been identified. The Orange County Sheriff's Department says remains found on Aug.

A young woman whose body was found in Anaheim 31 years ago was identified this week with the help of volunteers using the same technique that identified the suspected Golden State Killer.

Group uses advanced genealogy testing

Tracey Coreen Hobson is suspected to have been murdered in 1987. She was found in a grassy area in unincorporated Anaheim.

Bonus Episode #1. This week on Murder And Ghosts, In This Life And The Life Ever After, join hosts John and Cassie as they reach across to the other side to communicate with Anaheim Jane Doe. This was the second attempt to record our first podcast. As you can here, we were still figuring things out. Submit your questions, theories or what you heard from the ghost box to: engage@murderandghosts.com Follow Murder And Ghosts...

Southern California cold case investigators announced this week a breakthrough in identifying a 1987 stabbing victim whose hands had been hacked off by her killer.

In 1987, they found her remains in Anaheim Hills. This week, Orange County Sheriff's Department positively identified Tracey Hobson.

A Southern California homicide victim who was a Jane Doe for more than 31 years ago has finally been identified.

Tracey Coreen Hobson, 20, has been identified as the woman whose skeletal remains were found in Anaheim on August 30, 1987, after authorities said her body had likely been there for two months.

Now investigators are focusing on solving the homicide case.

Washoe County authorities say they have identified a woman whose body was found in Sheep's Flat in 1982. They say DNA led them to her positive identification.

A woman shot dead on a hiking trial near Lake Tahoe and known for 37 years as 'Sheep Flat Jane Doe' was revealed on Wednesday as Mary Silvani, from Michigan, as cops also named her killer.

Forensic genealogists followed a trail built on decades-old DNA evidence to help determine the identity of a woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 and her killer, investigators said Tuesday.

Using the same DNA technology that helped identify the Golden State Killer suspect, authorities were able to identify a former Jane Doe victim and the man they say raped and shot her to death.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Mary Silvani was lost to her family and friends for 37 years. Her burial site remained unmarked for decades at a cemetery in northwest Reno. For a while, the only thing...

New DNA evidence has determined the woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 was murdered by a man who killed himself in jail a year later after confessing to three other murders in California, investigators said Tuesday.

The Diocese of Reno recently donated a granite marker with Mary Silvani’s name carved at the top

Forensic genealogists followed a trail built on decades-old DNA evidence to help determine the identity of a woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 and her killer, investigators said Tuesday.

Washoe County homicide detectives have uncovered new DNA information in their cold case investigation into the shooting death of a woman found near Lake Tahoe in 1982. The woman has been identified as Mary Edith Silvani who was 33 years old at the time of her death. She was born on September 29, 1948, and is buried at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery in Reno. The suspect has also been identified as James Richard Curry, who died in January 1983.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Mary Silvani was lost to her family and friends for 37 years. Her burial site remained unmarked for decades at a cemetery in northwest Reno. For a while, the only thing marking her grave was a blue water utility flag. “She in her own right was lost in the world, and […]