FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Investigators will soon get DNA tests back that may help put a face and a name to human remains uncovered from a creek earlier this year.
“I want to find out who it is,” said Allen County Deputy Coroner Chad Brenneke. “It’s somebody’s daughter, somebody’s loved one…. If it was my family, I would want to know.”
Brenneke has been working to identify the bones found in Spy Run Creek since mid-March, when a fisherman discovered a skull in north Fort Wayne. Since the initial finding, the coroner’s office and a team from the University of Indianapolis, UI, Anthropology Department had pulled 44.3% of the bones from the creek bed.
What do we know about ‘Spy Run Creek Doe’?
Within a week of excavating, the remains were sent with the UI team back to Indianapolis for a visual autopsy. A biological profile was released last month based on the autopsy results. It described Spy Run Creek Doe as a white woman of European descent, believed to be in her late 30s or early 40s. She was a little less than five feet tall. The profile indicates she died less than one year before her bones were found…