New DNA technology identifies Pierce County Jane Doe after 6 years

A local cold case is heating up thanks to new technology related to DNA.

This week, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office identified a woman who was found dead in a yard waste bin in a vacant lot nearly seven years ago as Linda Lee Schock. Schock’s skeletal remains were discovered by an excavator clearing out a dilapidated trailer in 2019.

Since her body was found, the case went cold. The crime scene is long gone and a new house was constructed over it, but neighbors never stopped wondering about what happened there…

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