Forty-one years ago, a young woman’s partially clothed skeleton was found in a densely wooded area of Cobb County, just feet from the Chattahoochee River.
She was lying in a bed of pine straw and had been there so long that nature was starting to reclaim her. Thorny briars were covering her body and likely would have concealed her if not for the land’s owner finding her while inspecting his property on May 10, 1984.
With the body were several substantial clues that today likely would lead to a quick identification, but back then, they led nowhere…