A woman found dead in a Southern California ravine wearing a high school reunion T-shirt has been identified after 27 years.
On Aug. 13, 1998, the decomposed body of a female in her 30s was found in shrubbery in a ravine off the 1300 block of Avocado Avenue in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego. The woman was found wearing a blue “Woodruff Warriors 20-year reunion 1971-1991” T-shirt, black shoes, white socks, and a silver herringbone bracelet. She was described as a 5-foot-2-inch white or Hispanic female weighing 110 pounds. The case was determined to be a homicide, but efforts to identify her were unsuccessful.
In 2003, a forensic artist created a reconstruction of the Jane Doe’s face, which was released by the El Cajon Police Department cold case unit, but her identity remained elusive. Another attempt at identification was made in 2008, when DNA sampled from the remains was entered into the Combined DNA Index System, to no avail…