New DNA testing identifies woman found dead in Riverside County ravine in 1980

A homicide case that had gone cold for decades has a new development: authorities have identified a woman found dead in Riverside County 46 years ago as a missing person from Alabama.

New DNA analysis confirmed that 29-year-old Victoria Jean Hargrove was the woman discovered in a ravine off Highway 74, south of Cahuilla, in February 1980.

Hargrove had been reported missing by her family in Opelika, Alabama, less than a month before her body was found…

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