Oregon authorities on Monday exhumed the dismembered remains of a woman long known as Oak Grove Jane Doe — the state’s oldest unidentified person case at the heart of a nearly 80-year-old unsolved murder.
Authorities had believed the woman’s partial remains were lost to time, but the Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s Office earlier this year used a website to determine that they were likely interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City.
The headstone, which reads only “UNKNOWN WOMAN 1946,” had been obscured by layers of dirt, located deep within the cemetery in one of its oldest sections.
The date of death listed in cemetery records corresponds with the date when the woman known as Oak Grove Jane Doe was discovered along the Willamette River on April 12, 1946.
The Oak Grove Jane Doe has spent almost 80 years, no in police custody as assumed, but in a barely marked grave.
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