WILL COUNTY, Ill. (TCN) — Investigators recently identified a woman whose nude body was discovered with signs of strangulation and blunt force trauma nearly 57 years ago.
According to the Will County Coroner’s Office and genetic genealogy company Othram Inc., on Sept. 30, 1968, a highway worker discovered the remains of an unidentified female victim near Blodgett Road partially covered by brush. An autopsy determined she had been strangled and suffered blunt force trauma to her head.
Investigators obtained the victim’s fingerprints but were unable to identify her, and the case went cold. Officials entered her case information into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System…