DNA evaluation has helped determine a lady 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 had 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 accordance with a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Workplace information launch. A number of fractures to her cranium and ribs had been decided to be the reason for demise, however it was unknown how she sustained these accidents.
Efforts to determine her had been unsuccessful. She was ultimately listed as Jane Doe and laid to relaxation on the County of Sonoma Cemetery shortly afterward, authorities mentioned.
DNA evaluation has helped determine a lady 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 lady’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 relations 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.
