After nearly 4 decades, a phone call and DNA technology identified Shelia Cummings; another Jane Doe still remains unidentified

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — For decades, she was another Jane Doe. Her body was buried beneath a house in West Nashville.

Sheila Cummings vanished in 1984, and for years, her family searched without answers. Police never suspected that she’d already been found.

Now, nearly 40 years later, a phone call from her daughter and a breakthrough in forensic genetic genealogy helped Nashville investigators finally identify her…

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