For more than 47 years, Jessie Lee Williamson’s identity remained a mystery.
After more than a decade of DNA testing, Williamson was identified publicly by Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office detective Sgt. Richard Brinkley on Oct. 6 as an unidentified murder victim from Aug. 1, 1978.
Sheriff’s detectives and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents investigated the case from 1978 with little evidence, according to a news release from the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office…