More than five decades after a woman’s body was abandoned in a trunk in a St. Petersburg field on Halloween, investigators say they finally know who she was: Sylvia June Atherton. The name gives relatives a long-awaited answer while leaving the central mystery wide open: who killed her. Detectives are now asking the public to help find two of Atherton’s daughters, who might be holding key pieces of her final days without even knowing it.
Discovery and early forensics
The body was found on Oct. 31, 1969, inside a black steamer trunk dumped behind what was then a restaurant. Officers discovered the woman wrapped in plastic, with visible head injuries and a bolo tie around her neck, according to Law&Crime. Forensic tools at the time came up short,…..