For more than four decades, a woman killed in a hit-and-run was known only as “Laguna Beach Jane Doe.” Now, advances in DNA technology have finally given her back her name.
Authorities have identified the woman as Virginia Irene Nelson, known as “Ginny” to her family. She was 46 years old when she was struck and killed along Pacific Coast Highway in January 1982.
On January 30, 1982, a passing driver discovered a woman’s body along the side of Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach. Investigators determined she had died only hours earlier and had been struck in a hit-and-run…