A 16-year-old girl found dead in an Oakland hotel room nearly 60 years ago has been positively identified through DNA technology, the Oakland Police Department and FBI said Thursday.
A joint collaboration between the agencies revealed the longtime Jane Doe was named Joanne Yvonne Burdick and was known to her family as “Joanie.” Oakland police said her body was found in the former Hotel St. Louis at 539 Seventh St. on the afternoon of Oct. 2, 1969.
The former hotel is now the site of the North County Jail…