The New Castle County Division of Police has issued a new appeal for information in the unsolved homicide of Jane Marie Prichard, who was killed in Blackbird Forest State Park in 1986.
Jane, just 28 years old, was a bright and dedicated graduate student in botany at the University of Maryland. She lived in Clarksburg, Maryland, but frequently made the trip to Delaware to conduct field research for her studies.
On September 20, 1986, her research ended when she was killed in the woods near Smyrna. That morning, Jane drove her blue and white 1980 Chevrolet Blazer to Blackbird Forest Road, where she began setting up her equipment to study native plant life.
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