After more than three decades, the NYPD says it has finally put a name to a Jane Doe found in 1990 in Bedford-Stuyvesant: 21-year-old Sheila Ramsey. Her body was discovered face down in the basement boiler room of a vacant Gates Avenue storefront and later buried on Hart Island. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner listed blunt-force trauma to the head and neck as the cause of death. The identification not only gives a name to a woman who had lain in Potter’s Field for years, it also restarts a homicide investigation that has been cold for a long time.
Investigators say the break came after the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad used investigative genetic genealogy and private labs to build a genealogical profile and trace the victim to the Ramsey family. Detectives began…..