Human remains found nearly a half-century ago in North Carolina were identified as having come from a 15-year-old Maryland girl who ran away from home months earlier, state law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
\n\nThe skeletal remains were discovered on Dec. 29, 1977 in woods near a tire manufacturing plant in Wilson, 60 miles east of the state capitol in Raleigh, State Bureau of Investigation officials said.
\n\nIt took decades and multiple advances in DNA technology for law enforcement to finally put a name to the bones — 15-year-old Cindy Marcell Blizzard, “who had run away from Monkton, Maryland, in the spring of 1977,” according to an SBI statement this week.
\n\nWhile Blizzard’s cause of death is still unknown, state law enforcement officials are treating the matter as a possible homicide.
\n\n“Her death remains unsolved. Investigators are still looking for answers,” the SBI said.
\n\nWhen Blizzard’s skeleton was first found, a medical examiner could only determine that the remains were of a white female, 16 to 23, who had been dead for as little as six months and as long as two years, the SBI said.
\n\nWhile a cause of death has still yet to be determined, “circumstances surrounding the location…
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