- MyFoxdfw.comThis undated photo shows 22-year-old Gloria Faye Stringer, who disappeared in 1975 while living in Texas.
The nude body of a woman found
floating in a Texas river almost 40 years ago has finally been
identified as that of a missing 22-year-old mother, the Houston
Chronicle reported.
Forensic experts in Harris County say the
body found floating in the Brazos River in 1975 belongs to Gloria Faye
Stringer, a young mother who had relocated to Texas City that same year
before disappearing.
Authorities are investigating whether
Stringer's death is related to other cold case disappearances, including
the serial killings of other women abducted from the Houston and
Galveston areas in the 1970s, according to the newspaper.
Austin County Justice of the Peace Dennis R.
King had committed himself to identifying the nameless remains for
decades. He reportedly helped recover her body from the river in 1975
and then later ordered that her remains be exhumed in 2009 in the hopes
that advances in forensics might lead to an identification.
"We had to go out into the water and pull
her ashore," King told the newspaper. "She was a Jane Doe. With the type
of systems we had back in 1975, there was little we could do other than
just calling around to see if anyone was missing."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/21/body-found-in-texas-river-in-175-identified-as-missing-22-year-old-mother/?test=latestnews#ixzz1n59MHPNg
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