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RENO, Nev. — Forensic genealogists followed a trail built on decades-old DNA evidence to help identify a woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 and her killer who...

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**my hosting service has been having issues playing audio. Hopefully, it will be resolved soon! Check back in a few hours if the episode doesn't play** Welcome to Day 4 of the 12 Days of Crimelines! In 1982, the body of a woman was found near Lake Tahoe. The case grew ice cold but genetic genealogy would not just find her identity but that of her killer as well.  This case is solved. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vDL4YoWPRkUdf3IpjNQMPoS4nidJIjtiG2sm6aW08ss/edit?usp=sharing For transcription/captions, please watch on the Crimelines YouTube channel. New episodes are posted there within 2 days of release: https://www.youtube.com/crimelinestruecrime If an exact transcript is needed, please request at crimelinespodcast@gmail.com   Support the show! https://www.patreon.com/crimelines https://www.basementfortproductions.com/support Licensing and credits: Editing and production assistance by We Talk of Dream https://wetalkofdreams.com/ Theme music by Scott Buckley https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ Cover Art by Lars Hacking from Rusty Hinges Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On July 17, 1982, the body of a woman was found off of a hiking trail in the Sheep's Flat area near Mt. Rose just a few miles above Incline Village, was found. There was no identification or jewelry on the victim and investigators could tell by her clothing she may have been headed to Lake Tahoe when she was murdered. And there was no suspect.

A man who confessed to killing three people in the early 1980s has been identified through DNA genealogy as the person who shot and killed a young woman in the Lake Tahoe area in 1982.

DETROIT – For decades, she was known only as Sheep’s Flat Jane Doe.

A man who confessed to three Bay Area homicides, but committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial, has been linked by DNA tests from a private lab to a 1982 cold case murder in the Lake Tahoe area.

'JUSTICE NEVER SLEEPS': DNA techniques used to track down the suspected "Golden State Killer" have been used to link a man who confessed to three Bay Area murders to a cold case killing in Lake Tahoe.

Complicated linking of DNA evidence indicates “Sheep’s Flat Jane Doe” was killed by the man who confessed to killing three other people, including the owners of a rival business.

An unsolved murder in Lake Tahoe area was solved when forensic genealogists used same DNA...

Las últimas técnicas de ADN han sido fundamentales para que se descubriera la identidad de una mujer fallecida en 1982 y de su asesino, también muerto muchos años atrás

Former detective and current law enforcement instructor Christine Burke takes her personal interest in genetic genealogy to teach others in law enforcement about the crime fighting tool.

Thirty seven years after her body was found below the Mount Rose Summit, a woman known as Jane Doe has a name, as does her killer.

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.

Mary Silvani, a Pontiac native who grew up in Detroit, is identified as the victim of a decades old Nevada cold case.

After 37 years in a nameless Nevada grave, a slain Jane Doe is being remembered by the only people with memories of her: Her friends from Detroit.

For a long time, Mary Silvani's grave was only marked with a blue flag. Now, she has a marker that the Diocese of Reno donated to her family.

The Sheep's Flat Jane Doe has been identified as Mary Edith Silvani. Her suspected killer has been named as James Richard Curry, who died in 1983.

Investigators using DNA technology have identified a woman slain in Lake Tahoe and the man they say killed her 37 years ago, authorities announced.

What does it actually take to identify a person through genetic genealogy? Wading through infidelities and pornography.

For 37 years the woman's remains have been in a lonely, nameless grave at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery in Reno, Nevada.

DNA combined with the study of family history has been used to solve high-profile cold cases such as the Golden State Killer. Now, volunteers are using the technique to identify crime victims.

Genetic data gets caught in the dragnet as police turn to web for clues in old cases.

After 37 heartbreaking years, Marcia King is finally going home.

A woman known as "Buckskin Doe," found strangled in Miami County, Ohio in 1981, has finally been identified.