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Marcia King, 21, from Arkansas, had been known as the 'Buckskin Girl' because of the distinctive buckskin jacket she was wearing. Her body was found in Troy, Ohio, in April 1981.

Authorities in Ohio are a major step closer to solving a 37-year-old cold case involving the mysterious murder of the so-called “Buckskin Girl,” according to new reports. The woman, whose...

The homicide victim long known as the "Buckskin Girl" has been positively identified as 21-year-old Marcia L. King, of Arkansa

A body that was discovered in a ditch along an Ohio roadway 37 years ago has been identified as an Arkansas woman

UNCOVERING your ancestry is a booming business, but now the websites being used to trace long-lost relatives are helping track down cold-case killers Christy Mirack’s classroom full of 11-year-old …

WEST BARNSTABLE — It has been nearly 45 years since Alyssa Metcalfe’s sister found the handless body in the dunes 2 miles east of the old Coast Guard station in Provincetown. “It's kind of always s…

In the past few months, some of the most frustratingly unsolvable cold cases have been solved -- thanks to a new field of study known as genetic genealogy that's led by a group of passionate, largely unpaid hobbyists.

A woman's body found on an Ohio road nearly 37 years ago was identified Monday as that of a 21-year-old from Arkansas.

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Forensic genealogy helped nab the Golden State Killer in 2018. Now investigators across the country are using it to revisit hundreds of unsolved crimes.

The Miami County Sheriff’s Office in Troy, Ohio, identifies Jane Doe as Marcia King, 21, of Arkansas in an unsolved cold case murder from 1981, 37 years ago.

TROY — Miami County’s Jane Doe got her real name back on Wednesday when officials announced that a 37-year-old murder case had resulted in the

For nearly 37 years, she was known as Buckskin Girl—a young, anonymous murder victim found outside Dayton, Ohio, wearing a deer-hide poncho. Then, in April 2018, police announced that the mystery of ...

The arrest of the Golden State Killer served as proof for police new forensic science could help uncover secrets that have eluded them for decades.

Marcia L. King, 21, of Little Rock, Arkansas, known as a Jane Doe "buckskin girl" after she was found in April 1981 in a ditch in Miami County, Ohio, west of Troy, was identified and now will have a headstone with her name on it at Riverside Cemetery.

“I called the FBI this afternoon,” I casually told my husband, some months ago.“You did what … why?” he responded-not-so casu

TROY, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) -- The Miami County Sheriff's Office says it is continuing to investigate the events surrounding the death of the

The body of a previously unidentified woman, who became known as the "Buckskin girl" for the pullover jacket she was wearing, was found on a road in Ohio in 1981.

For more than 30 years, the Buckskin Girl's identity remained shrouded in mystery. Two years after Marcia King was named, her killer's still unknown.

DNA analysis matches him to relatives, fingerprints prove his identity

A young man who died alone in a Washington state motel room almost 17 years ago, booking the room under a pseudonym and leaving behind no identification after taking his

The case was solved by DNA Doe Project who identified Lyle Stevik as part Hispanic, part Native American and his family in California was informed.

In 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann was found washed up on an Irish beach. Ten years later, police, journalists, and internet sleuths are still trying to work out what happened.

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