Human bones found by a hunter in 2019 have been identified six years later as the remains of a woman who had never been reported as missing, North Carolina investigators say.
Maria del Socorro Medina Trejo was 43, a single mother, and lived not far from where her skeleton was found in the Winston-Salem area, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.
Her identity was revealed with the help of DNA testing by the non-profit DNA Doe Project. The cause of Trejo’s death remains a mystery, the sheriff’s office said at a news conference posted Dec. 31 on Facebook…