One fall day in 1977, the girlfriend of 27-year-old Linda LaBeau called the police.
He said that LaBeau had gone to meet his ex-husband to get $ 300 in compensation for cutting holes in the tires of his new girlfriend’s car.
She never came back.
Nine years later, in 1986, the remains of a corpse were found on a slope by the freeway outside the small town of Tustin, California, where LaBeau lived.
New DNA analyzes have now established that it was LaBeau who was found, the police in Riverside write in a press release.
Cold Case
Found dead
LaBeau’s body was one of several unidentified bodies recently unearthed by the police’s cold case group to undergo new tests. The goal was to use new DNA technology to solve the mysteries.
It was this technology that has now given a so-called familial hit, meaning that the body’s DNA matches someone who is related to LaBeau.
Investigators at the time determined that the victim had been shot in the head. However, they could not identify the victim or any suspects in the potential murder case, the police write in the press release.
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Main suspect’s death
Despite the fact that she has now been identified, one will probably never get an answer as to what really happened when she died.
Since she was not identified, the police have never been able to investigate the case as murder. The fact that she was outdoors for several years has also meant that there are very limited technical clues.
– Police investigators in Tustin have kept the investigation open as a missing person case, but also as a possible murder, ever since she disappeared. Investigators have continued to follow up on clues, but have not been able to solve the case, the police write in the press release.
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