QuoteCalifornia detectives say they have cracked a key aspect of a cold case murder that has haunted them for nearly three decades. They've identified remains found in 1995 in a discarded refrigerator in San Joaquin County east of the Bay Area as belonging to Amanda Lynn Schumann Deza, who was 29 when she likely went missing the prior year. "It was a cold case for 27 years," San Joaquin County Sheriff Patrick Withrow said last week.
"I'd just like to take this time right now to give her her name back, to give her her story back." Deza's identity was discovered through DNA mapping and family history research conducted by Othram Forensics, a private Houston-based laboratory. The company used new technology to extract from DNA evidence hundreds of thousands of genetic markers, instead of the 20 usually used by law enforcement, and found relatives through those markers, Othram CEO David Mittelman said.
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Lady in the fridge' is identified nearly 3 decades after she was found in California
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