The woman was discovered injured and unconscious on the aspect of a freeway close to Newton, Georgia, in the summer season of 1985 and later died at a hospital.
SYLVESTER, Ga. — Law officers say they’ve identified a woman who went missing in Florida and died in south Georgia after 37 years of not understanding who she is.
The woman, who suffered blunt trauma to her head and died after being injured, has been identified as Mary Anga Cowan, who went missing in Seminole County, Florida, in the mid-Nineteen Eighties, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation introduced this week.
DNA expertise was used to make the match after the woman’s physique was exhumed from her grave in 2012, after which new assessments have been accomplished in 2022, the GBI mentioned.
The woman was discovered injured and unconscious on the aspect of a freeway close to Newton, Georgia, in the summer season of 1985 and later died at a hospital.
“In October 2022, a DNA profile was generated for comparison and turned over to the FBI for genealogical research,” the GBI mentioned in a (*37*) launch.
“The research yielded a high probability that the unidentified woman was Mary Anga Cowan, aka ‘Angie,’ ”the company mentioned. “Agents obtained DNA from one of Cowan’s children and the comparison indicated a parent/child relationship.”