Victoria Hargrove disappeared from her home in 1980 when she was 29
NEED TO KNOW
- Victoria Hargrove’s body was found in California weeks after she disappeared in Alabama in 1980
- Investigators used advanced DNA testing decades later to identify her as the “Riverside County Jane Doe”
- Authorities are still investigating her cause of death and how she traveled from Alabama to California
It’s been almost 50 years since an unidentified body was found in a ravine in California. Now, the Jane Doe’s identity has now been discovered.
Alabama resident Victoria Jean Hargrove disappeared from her home in Opelika on Jan. 28, 1980. Three weeks after Hargrove, who was 29 at the time, went missing, motorists found a body on Feb. 18 in Palm Desert, Calif., according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office website.
The victim was described at the time as a white female between 20 and 25 years old, approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing about 115 lbs…