The Brief
- Investigators identified remains found in Sellers Park as those of Hannah Graham Kleitz, who died in 1907.
- Police said the remains had been removed from Kleitz’s Wilmington mausoleum decades after her death.
- Investigative genealogy and DNA testing helped solve the 15-year-old unidentified-remains case.
NEW CASTLE, Del. – Human remains found in a wooded area of a Wilmington park in 2011 have been identified through DNA and investigative genealogy as a woman who died more than a century ago, New Castle County police said.
Who was identified?
What we know:
The remains belonged to Hannah Graham Kleitz, who was 29 when she died from a medical illness in 1907, police said.
Her partial skeletal remains and skull were discovered in Sellers Park, off Edgemoor Road, on June 5, 2011. A forensic anthropological examination determined they belonged to a white woman estimated to be between 25 and 50 years old.…