Mary Silvani
DNA: ID
AbJack Entertainment
4.8 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In 1982, hikers in the Sheep’s Flat area of Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, found the body of a woman who had been shot in the head. No one was able to identify her, and she became known as Sheep’s Flat Jane Doe. She was buried in an unmarked grave, and would remain unidentified for nearly four decades. DNA from the crime scene was preserved. In 2018, the Washoe County Sheriff’s office teamed up with the DNA Doe project and Identifinders International to try to give Sheep’s Flat Jane Doe her name back, and find her killer. And it worked. This case was the first in which forensic genealogy was utilized to identify both the victim and the killer.
Photo credits Washoe County Sheriff; Reno Gazette; Detroit Free Press
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| 1:12.9 | It was 1982. |
| 1:14.6 | On Saturday, July 17th, a father and son were hiking a trail up Mount Rose in the sheep's flat area of Nevada. |
| 1:21.7 | They were nearing the summit, walking in the serene meadow several hundred yards off the highway that ran up the Lake Tahoe side of the |
| 1:27.7 | mountain above Inclined Village. Mount Rose is a pretty remote area, but is popular among hikers |
| 1:33.4 | in northern Nevada. The duo paused their ascent of Mount Rose to take a break and play in the few |
| 1:38.5 | inches of snow that still covered the ground at this elevation, even though it was midsummer. |
| 1:43.6 | Startled, the pair saw what appeared to be a |
| 1:45.5 | woman sleeping on the ground next to a fallen log at the tree line that abutted the meadow and trail. |
| 1:51.2 | As they stood there, another pair of hikers walked up, a couple. The four hikers collectively discovered |
| 1:56.7 | that the woman who was face down and appeared to have fallen face first off the log was not sleeping. |
| 2:03.1 | On close observation, they saw that she was clearly dead, her face plastered with pine needles. |
| 2:08.6 | Oddly, a pair of men's underwear covered the back of her head. |
| 2:12.1 | And that item of clothing obscured a gunshot wound visible to the back of the victim's skull. |
| 2:18.8 | It being the time before cell phones, the hikers had to find the nearest phone to call police. Deputies from the Washoe County |
| 2:23.9 | Sheriff's Office responded and a homicide investigation was begun by WSCO detectives Jim Lopee and |
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